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Kentucky Senate Candidate Andy Barr Endorses Pro-Amnesty Book Despite Pledging to Be ‘America First’

Dmitri Bolt
Dmitri Bolt  |  February 10, 2026 3:10 PM

Andy Barr, a Kentucky Senate candidate, current Representative, and longtime RINO, recently threw his support behind a book by Florida Representative Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) that pushes for mass amnesty for the country’s illegal immigrant population, as he claims to represent President Trump's America First agenda.

Salazar has established herself as the leading voice for amnesty among Republicans, at one point saying, “don’t touch the nannies, or the gardeners, or the ones who are picking up the jalapeño peppers, or the oranges, or the berries, or the ones at the dairy houses, come on! Those people are helping us...so those are the ones we are trying to give a dignified status.”

And yet, despite endorsing the book, Barr has fervently claimed he would vote with the Trump administration to maintain a tough immigration stance. 

"Already, the border is closed. But we can't stop there," he declared in a video posted to X. "We must deport every illegal criminal, drug dealer, and gang member that President Biden let into our country. Our message to every single illegal is simple: deport yourself or we will."

Later, adding to his post, "In the Senate, no one will fight harder to keep the border closed and deport illegals."

Then why endorse a book fighting for mass amnesty?

Because Rep. Barr has never supported President Trump's immigration policy in the first place, last year attacking "nativists" and declared that the United States is, in fact, a country of immigrants.

The Congressman has previously called for bipartisan immigration reform and has been proud to support a policy of amnesty.

To make matters worse, Barr also backed expanding visas for Afghan migrants, even claiming that "we owe them." That policy proved disastrous when one of these migrants, a former U.S. military contractor, fatally shot a National Guardsman in Washington, D.C., just a day before Thanksgiving and critically wounded another.

When it comes to the Senate race in Kentucky, there is only one option for a legitimate Trump ally, and that is Nate Morris.