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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Jun 15, 2025

Yes, when you see left-wing street militias who are throwing bricks and frozen water bottles at police officers and shooting them with fireworks.

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Jun 15, 2025

We should not declare any industry or any worksite that uses large numbers of illegal immigrants off-limits for enforcement of federal law.

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Jun 15, 2025

I think we need to have robust worksite enforcement.

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Jun 15, 2025

But he's given them chance after chance, as he said.

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Jun 15, 2025

all options remain on the table to defend our own people, to support Israel…

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Jun 15, 2025

Iran was simply too stubborn. They weren't willing to come to the table and negotiate.

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Jun 15, 2025

we cannot allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. We cannot allow them to have a path to a nuclear weapon with uranium enrichment.

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Jun 15, 2025

the Iranian regime has been terrorizing Americans. It's killed thousands of Americans. It's taken them hostage. It still chants 'Death to America.'

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Jun 15, 2025

He's been very clear that all options remain on the table to defend our own people, to support Israel…

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Jun 15, 2025

But, as he said early last week, Iran was simply too stubborn. They weren't willing to come to the table and negotiate.

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Jun 15, 2025

And that's why President Trump has been consistent for his 10 years in political life that we cannot allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Jun 15, 2025

Well, what the president said in his overnight post was a clear message to the ayatollahs, that, if you hit America in any way, whether our troops or our citizens or our ships, for instance, then you're going to feel the full force and…

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Jun 15, 2025

The Iranian regime has been terrorizing Americans. It's killed thousands of Americans. It's taken them hostage.

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Jun 15, 2025

the next step is to call in the National Guard, and if the governor won't call on the National Guard, then the President has to federalize them.

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Jun 15, 2025

They can make a deal, or there's going to be bombing.

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Jun 15, 2025

President Trump has always said his goal is to end Iran's nuclear weapons program, which means the surrender of its uranium enrichment capability.

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Jun 15, 2025

Iran can make a deal and live happily without death or there will be bombing.

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