Panelists on “CNN NewsNight” had a collective meltdown on Wednesday after Salem Radio Network host Scott Jennings used data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to illustrate the criminal records of illegal aliens arrested by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Border czar Tom Homan announced Wednesday that 700 federal agents would be leaving Minneapolis, citing “unprecedented cooperation” from state and local authorities. After Jennings fact-checked former Democratic State Rep. Bakari Sellers of South Carolina, who claimed most illegal immigrants didn’t have criminal records, “The View” co-host Ana Navarro erupted.
“The federal government, the Department of Homeland Security, has repeatedly published data showing that 70% of the people that have been deported had other criminal records. They have said this on the record time and again. I don‘t know about the Cato Institute, but the government — but the government has repeatedly said this,” Jennings said, prompting Navarro to claim, “Scott, hold on — hold on a minute. Here’s the thing, though. The thing is that you take whatever DHS says as truth, as the Bible.”
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“They published the list,” Jennings responded.
DHS issues press releases daily, detailing some of the illegal aliens with criminal records that are taken into custody. Some of the crimes the illegal aliens were convicted of include sexual conduct with a minor, domestic abuse, lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old, third-degree sex offense, voluntary manslaughter, burglary, robbery, breaking and entering, malicious punishment of a child and terroristic threats.
“Okay, yes, but that doesn’t mean anything, Scott,” Navarro claimed. “These are the same people who told us that the people they had sent to that hellhole in El Salvador were the worst of the worst and were gang members. And when independent journalists found out their names, which they did not release, and went through the records and the names, most of the people that were sent to El Salvador were not Tren de Aragua, were not gang members and did not have violent records. These are the same people who lie constantly. These are the same people who said that a Cuban man who just died in ICE detention committed suicide when the medical examiner in Texas is saying — ruled it a homicide. They lied time and time again and then you come here and you repeat the lies.”
“Just today, 4000 people, they put out the list in Minnesota, have been taken off the streets,” Jennings responded. “Criminals, violent rapists, murderers, pedophiles, people who have done very, very bad things. They’re not backing down here.”
President Donald Trump declared an end to “Temporary Protected Status” for Somalis on Nov. 22, days after City Journal published a report on welfare fraud in Minnesota. After the surge of federal immigration enforcement was announced, Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis said that police would not cooperate with the operation during an interview with WCCO, a CBS-affiliated TV station in the city, that aired Dec. 7.
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