Rokita said he doubts that claim and suggested the better course would be to keep all the children together in one place.

"If we believe that a majority of them should be reunited with their parents in their countries, letting them diffuse into the community is just going to be harder to get them to the hearing, harder to find out where they are, who they are," Rokita said.

He added if more children are released to Hoosier relatives, they'll soon enroll in school and "ultimately your property taxes are going to go up."

Classroom instruction in Indiana schools mainly is funded by state sales and income taxes, not local property taxes.

Rokita also concurred with the program's host, Greg Garrison, that the president is a poor leader and deliberately promoting, in Garrison's words, "this insurgency of sneaking these kids in."

Kent Brantly, an Indiana doctor, is fighting for his life in an isolation room at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after contracting Ebola while treating infected patients in Africa, where nearly all Ebola cases have occurred.