Earlier than welcoming Senator John Fetterman because the day’s guest-slash-grill meat, The View cohosts dug right into a troublesome “Sizzling Matter” in the beginning of the hour on Monday’s (January 27) episode: the mass deportations of undocumented immigrants by Donald Trump’s administration.
In response to the information that the Trump Administration is utilizing each ICE brokers and navy tools to hold out these deportations, Whoopi Goldberg requested her co-stars, “Is that this the immigration system repair that individuals had in thoughts after they voted?”
Sara Haines was the primary to talk up and determined to make clear the precise statistics concerned by saying, “The headlines and all of the protection would make you suppose that there’s this huge deportation. However by numbers, contextually, President Obama nonetheless stays the deporter in chief. Even when Trump continues at this fee, he is not going to even hit what President Obama hit in a single 12 months, with 400,000.” Haines then accused the media protection of being “a PR marketing campaign… meant to scare folks.” She additionally referred to as for extra transparency in regards to the kinds of alleged criminals who’re being deported based mostly on their crimes. “What we’re not getting is a breakdown of who these individuals are,” she mentioned. “I feel both you personal the truth that these are all violent criminals, and break down who these individuals are, what their crime was, and inform the American folks, or inform us what they are surely and allow us to have a wholesome debate over the disagreement of how that is being carried out.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin then identified that the deportation of these migrants who’ve dedicated crimes is an almost universally supported precept for People earlier than including her personal take: “Once we discuss this situation, most nations on Earth cope with the query of how you can safe their border and what number of migrants to soak up. It’s not uniquely American. It’s not xenophobic to easily care about it. There’s nationwide safety imperatives, there’s financial imperatives, and what we’re seeing now, what issues to me is the way it’s finished, that has been humanely and safely, and that we’re prioritizing the individuals who shouldn’t be right here.” She went on to counsel that Trump’s administration must cease the pause for Afghan refugees and others who supplied help to america navy efforts overseas. “These are the individuals who want to come back first, not financial migrants. We are able to’t home everybody. We are able to’t deliver everybody right here, however individuals who helped our nation and our fleeing for his or her lives ought to at all times be protected.”
After Griffin’s feedback, Goldberg referred to as out cohost Sunny Hostin for making a relatively pained expression however staying silent, saying, “You’re sitting there with that face. I do know you need to say one thing.” Nonetheless, she requested her to attend till after the break to take action, at which era Goldberg as soon as once more put the highlight on Hostin: “We had been speaking in regards to the begin of the nationwide immigration fee, and I used to be sweepingly pointing to Sunny Hostin as a result of her face was saying one thing I felt she wished to say verbally,” Goldberg mentioned.
“Yeah, to reply your query, ‘Is that this the immigration repair that this nation wished?’ I feel completely there are particular people who need to see this sort of ache and destruction for a sure group or sort of immigrant,” Hostin mentioned. “As a result of for those who take a look at the numbers, sure, the variety of immigrants that come from Mexico or Mexican-born are these are the biggest [demographic], however the subsequent largest are Asians — 28 p.c of them come. I don’t suppose they stroll throughout the southern border. I feel they arrive by airplane. The following largest are Europeans.”
When interrupted by Griffin, who challenged whether or not these had been additionally undocumented immigrants, Hostin famous that “quite a lot of them are” and defined, “They overstay their visas, in order that they’re undocumented. The Europeans that come right here that overstay their visas are undocumented, however they don’t come throughout the Southern border. So I feel there’s a really clear message as to what this president desires the look of a felony migrant to appear like?… And I feel that’s racist.”
She additionally castigated Trump for utilizing the navy within the deportation efforts and pounced on the story of an American citizen (a veteran, no much less) who was rounded up in Newark, New Jersey, throughout one of many raids on a enterprise. “They’re additionally racially profiling in doing this,” Hostin mentioned, pointing to that instance. “Among the many residents that they detained and questioned was a Puerto Rican man and a navy vet. For the 50 million[th time], Puerto Ricans are American and disproportionately within the navy. And so I say all of this to say that I’m disenchanted, disgusted, and saddened by what I’m seeing.”
Ana Navarro additionally hadn’t spoken up earlier than the industrial break however delivered a pointed comment to the problem, impressed by her personal historical past as an immigrant. “I’ve truly seen some video this weekend of Latinos who voted for Trump crying as a result of now their abuelas and their tios are getting deported. However I’m having a really laborious time mustering up any sympathy for these folks,” she mentioned. She went on to counsel that the expense of utilizing navy plans was “100 occasions extra” than utilizing a conventional constitution flight and added, “When you’re an undocumented immigrant, for those who’ve acquired a child in class, for those who’ve acquired a U.S. citizen faculty, let that college know. Give them a listing of adults that may go decide up that child. In case you are taken in, have your paperwork prepared, for those who can seek the advice of with a lawyer … and all of these folks crying proper now and feeling dangerous by the best way they voted, there’s going to be one other election in two years, and we’re going to have to attend two years to alter. Get your self registered, get your self lively. There’s no cause why we ought to be taking part in.”
See the video of the dialogue beneath (though do be aware that Goldberg’s feedback about Hostin’s silence had been edited out by The View‘s social media group).
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