‘Not Gonna Take That Bait’: CNBC’s Joe Kernen Spars With Dem Senator Over Party’s Outrage Over Deportations

CNBC host Joe Kernen confronted Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner on Monday as the senator criticized the surge in arrests of illegal immigrants made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The panelists on “Squawk Box” discussed the response to the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday, who was shot by an ICE officer while allegedly accelerating her vehicle forward during a confrontation with agents. Warner claimed that ICE agents are detaining illegal immigrants who have not committed any crimes, but rather are arresting mothers dropping off their kids at school and people heading to work.

“ percent of the people, no criminal record, secure the border absolutely, have masked ICE agents picking up moms, dropping off kids or folks going to work.I don’t think that’s what the American people signed up for.And now we’ve got this split in city after city across America. That is not good for the sake of law enforcement. That is not good for the sake of actually having a rational immigration process,” Warner said. 

Kernen pointed out that Democrats did not seem outraged when former President Barack Obama deported over 2.7 million people throughout his eight years in office.

“You would agree that going city to city to try to disrupt authorities from lawfully executing whatever their job is, disrupt, stop, obstruct what they’re trying to do,” Kernen said. “That’s against the law. That’s not something that Democrats or anyone should be ginning up and telling people to do.I know Trump has deported or sent back 350,000, 400,000 people. Barack Obama, your guy, as you called Trump, my guy, it was five million.It was five million over eight years. Now we’re at 350,000.