“The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin shut down panelist Sunny Hostin’s attempt to accuse President Donald Trump’s administration of targeting illegal immigrants based on their race.
Hostin falsely argued the Trump administration is ignoring illegal immigration coming through the U.S.-Canadian border and solely focusing on the southern border since those migrants “look a certain way.” Griffin accurately pointed out that most illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S. from the northern border are not Canadians.
“I think what’s fascinating to me is yes, [Trump] ran on immigration and he ran really on the southern border because we know we also border Canada and that’s actually the largest border, but they’re not really going into Canada and looking for those Canadian people that are kind of jumping back and forth,” Hostin said.
“This is a misnomer. It’s not Canadians who come across the northern border,” Griffin said. “The northern border crisis is people coming from other parts of the world. India [and] Mexico. There’s not a bunch of Canadians flocking. There’s probably more Americans going to Canada right now.”
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Hostin failed to point out that more than half of the migrants illegally crossing from the northern border are from Latin American countries, with the top nationality being Mexico and East Asia. She also did not mention that most illegal immigrants enter the U.S. through the southern border.
“The point is, [Trump] was all about immigration from the southern border and those immigrants, or those migrants, look a certain way. So it seems to me it’s never really just about immigration. It’s about a certain type of immigrant and so now we have this — can I finish talking?” Hostin said as Griffin chimed in. “Thank you. So, it’s okay for Russian oligarchs to come over, it’s okay for people with money to come over, but it’s not okay to provide a path to citizenship, people who have been here, like the DACA recipients, for other people who look a different way, that’s the point.”
“Just to clarify, because there is a border crisis on the northern border and it doesn’t get nearly as much attention as the southern border [because] the numbers aren’t as high,” Griffin said. “It is not Canadians crossing from Canada into the United States. It is Mexico and India [that] are the two largest places that people are coming [from.] Because they’re seeing that it’s actually easier than going through the cartels and going through a more secure southern border. So if they have the resources, that’s the northern immigration crisis. It has nothing to do with Canadians.”
Border Patrol agents witnessed a rise in Indian and East Asian migrants crossing into the U.S. from the northern border in the 2024 fiscal year. In recent years, most migrants apprehended at the northern border were Mexican nationals who had flown into Canada because the country did not require a visa for them at the time, though that policy has since changed.
In the 2022 fiscal year, more than half of the migrants crossing the northern border had flown into Canada from Latin American countries, multiple officials previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation at the time.
The southern border far exceeds the northern border in illegal encounters, causing politicians and the media to give the U.S. Mexico-border more attention. Personnel encountered over 198,000 migrants at the northern border in the 2024 fiscal year, while over 2.1 million migrants were encountered at the southern border in the same fiscal year, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The figures include encounters at ports of entry.
Over 44,000 have been encountered at the northern border thus far in the 2025 fiscal year, and 358,000 have been encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to CBP data.
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