"We're beginning to get the American people to think that deporting people is wrong. It's the exact opposite," Tillis told Noem during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this week.

"The way you're going about deporting them is wrong, the fact that you can't admit to a mistake, which looks like under investigation, it's going to prove that Ms. Good and Mr. Pretti probably should not have been shot in the face and in the back," he said.