The Friday, July 11, episode of The View kicked off with the ladies discussing “Alligator Alcatraz,” an immigration detention middle in Florida. As Pleasure Behar identified, “Households of detainees say the situations are horrible and harmful, however some MAGA trustworthy are treating it like some form of vacationer attraction.”
The dialog then opened as much as immigration insurance policies in the USA, and Ana Navarro had rather a lot to say. After declaring that there have been studies of undocumented immigrants working for Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago when he was first working for president, she insisted what’s happening at “Alligator Alcatraz” is “horrible.”
“In case you are on the market within the Everglades, driving on the market and getting out of your automotive to take an image [of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’] as if it was the Eiffel Tower, you’re a racist and you’re a horrible human being,” Navarro stated. She additionally identified that sure folks being stored on the detention middle are “authorized everlasting residents,” including, “This isn’t nearly undocumented immigrants.”
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Navarro continued, “If you find yourself taking away non permanent protecting standing, when you find yourself placing authorized everlasting residents in detention and deporting them, when you find yourself threatening U.S. residents that you just don’t like that you just’re going to take their citizenship, naturalized ones, when you find yourself speaking about birthright citizenship and taking that away … this isn’t about going after criminals and gang members. That is about making America white once more.”
The viewers erupted in applause at that time, and folks on social media applauded Navarro for her assertion.
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To additional show her level, Navarro stated, “Take into consideration this. On the similar time that they’re rounding up Latino immigrants and Brown immigrants, they’re opening the doorways for White South Africanos fleeing from a non-existent genocide? That is about one, deporting folks, and two, scaring folks out of this nation.”
She went on to proceed to slam Trump: “That’s the reason he has despatched folks to a gulag in El Salvador, to vanish them. A gulag the place folks solely go away in the event that they’re lifeless. That’s the reason he’s utilizing army personnel in L.A. to enter parks the place kids are enjoying to terrorize them.”
When Behar questioned why Republican lawmakers are letting Trump get away with this, Navarro insisted, “They’re a bunch of cowards!” She particularly referenced Marco Rubio. “He constructed his profession on railing in opposition to the dictatorships in Cuba, in Venezuela, in Nicaragua, and he’s standing in complicit silence as this administration returns folks to these merciless dictatorships.”
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