"It just makes no sense from a public health standpoint to let in a lot of people who have not been screened," Orient told Amanda House, deputy political editor for Breitbart News and host of Breitbart News Sunday on the SiriusXM Patriot Channel.

Orient said that unlike the days when Ellis Island was the place where migrants were tested for diseases and put in quarantine to protect against diseases in the incubation stage, in recent years people have been allowed to enter the country and settle across the country without proper screenings.

Orient said border security is not only important for public safety but for public health.

"I think we really need to control entrance to our county," Orient said.

"It just doesn't make any sense in these days of exotic diseases [and] increasing antibiotic resistance to be allowing an invading flood of people," Orient said.