On her Fox News show last night, Laura Ingraham discussed all kinds of things that terrify her fearful demographic. Things like lions and tigers and bears. In Ingraham’s own case, it is mostly people of color, immigrants of color, and Democrats of color (oh my!). Ingraham was bewildered that there were Republicans seemingly willing to entertain the idea that the way in which ICE is performing its duties may not be exactly humane.
One of Ingraham’s guests was former acting ICE director and future security-company sham man Tom Homan. This is a man who, when asked whether or not Trump’s family separation policy was “humane,” froze up like Jack Nicholson at the end of The Shining.
One of the problems that Homan pointed out was that these Republicans Ingraham speaks of have never spoken to an ICE agent! Homan’s play here is that ICE needs all the funding so that it can stop stealing the money it needs to imprison children and families from FEMA and the Coast Guard, saying that ICE needs at least 52,000 beds for all of the people it is putting into its prisons detention centers. Ingraham believes that opposition to the funding also shows that Democrats don’t want to deport anyone. I guess that’s bad?
Ingraham then blames Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for not passing the wall funding during the lame duck session, saying that Trump was “frankly lied to” by Republicans. Sweet! They then get into Sen. Bob Menendez’s criticism of the Trump administration for criminalizing any and all violations by immigrants, specifically a statement Menendez made to Wolf Blitzer on CNN that having a misdemeanor DUI arrest on your record should not put you in the same category as someone who has commited murder. Homan responded, “I'd rather put an illegal alien jail for DUI than a white-collar bank fraud.”
In Homan’s defense, he rightly points out that DUIs lead to thousands of deaths every year. Interestingly enough, though, Homan doesn’t mention firearms deaths or the thousands of suicides connected to the stresses Americans faced stemming from the bank fraud crisis.