Just when you think Fox & Friends can’t go any lower, they find a way. Host Brian Kilmeade was once again defending the unbelievably cruel and wildly unpopular Trump immigration policy of indefinitely imprisoning immigrant families and children, many of whom are escaping unspeakable violence and poverty, by essentially saying, “What’s the big deal? These aren’t our kids.”
Watch and ask yourself where in the hell these people were radicalized to be so cruel? Transcript below.
Being “ours” shouldn’t matter. We are supposed to be the shining beacon on the hill. The symbol of freedom, not imprisonment. Our country is founded on immigration and diversity. Those people in Texas and Idaho? Where in the hell do they think they came from? You don’t get the impression Kilmeade is talking about indigenous people.
But many of the people trying to immigrate to the United States do have family here already. The heartbreaking audio released by ProPublica this week had the cries of a 6 year old from El Salvador who kept begging border patrol agents to call her aunt, repeatedly giving them the phone number she had memorized.
Thanks to Media Matters for the transcript.
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): The other thing that I think is the biggest joke that we're not addressing, it wasn't President Trump's idea to have everyone leave from Central and South America in June and well up at the border. Somebody has to deal with this issue. It doesn't matter who the president is. If you don't like his policy, he's also open to your policy rather than just criticizing his. He's trying to send a message to the other countries. This is not the way you do it because this is a country that has rules and laws. The port of entry will be one thing. We can bolster those laws, but we just can't let everybody in that wants to be here.
And these are not -- like it or not, these aren't our kids. Show them compassion, but it's not like he is doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas. These are people from another country and now people are saying that they're more important than people in our country who are paying taxes and who have needs as well.
AINELY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): Yeah, well he just wants to make sure we vet who's coming across the border, in case it's MS-13 or drugs.