Texas Rep. Weber says sanctuary cities shouldn't be funded if they don't deport illegal migrants

Congressman Randy Weber, R-Texas., said Friday that sanctuary cities that don't cooperate with mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump's administration should lose federal funding. 

"Let's take away their money and all federal benefits," Weber said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "Texas, as you know, is an extremely conservative state, and so we get it."

During Trump's campaign, the former president ran on securing the border and conducing mass deportations as thousands of illegal migrants have come to the U.S. across the southern border. 

Some Democratic mayors around the U.S. have come out and said they would not participate in the mass deportations. 

Weber said that when he was in the Texas state legislature, they spent millions of dollars trying to secure the border. 

"Now that Trump's coming back into office saying, 'we're going to fix this problem,'" he said. "They're going, 'Oh, we will obstruct you every way we can.'"