Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski later echoed the sentiments shared by her colleague, Sen. Thom Tillis.

Tillis' remark adds to growing intra-Republican pushback on the Trump administration over immigration enforcement.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Thursday commended border czar Tom Homan for conducting a news conference in Minnesota on immigration enforcement and told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller to “take notes.

I think that what she’s done in Minnesota should be disqualifying,” Tillis (R-NC) told reporters on Capitol Hill.

I think she's out of her depth,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said. "She's proven that she doesn't know how to lead, how to de-escalate.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) slammed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for delays in providing disaster recovery aid to his state while speaking on the Senate floor Thursday. “The data clearly shows that something is seriously wrong here,

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) drew the president's ire after calling for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be fired.

Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis are the first GOP members of Congress to call for Noem to step down as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

President Trump labeled Republican Sens. Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) “losers” in an interview published Wednesday following their calls for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to step down from her role after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man in Minneapolis,

Tillis called for the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.

Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), in a press gaggle with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol, said he has no confidence in Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying Noem should not feel a point of pride in her work during her time with DHS.