MSNBC panel erupts after Heritage prez blasts crime committed by illegal migrants: ‘We don’t use the term’
NY Post
MSNBC hosts chafed at how to refer to migrants who enter the country illegally and commit crimes during a testy exchange with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts Saturday.
The liberal network’s hosts were eager to grill Roberts about Heritage’s Project 2025, an initiative intended to outline an agenda for former President Donald Trump should he win a second term. It has become something of a boogeyman enterprise among progressives.
“I’m specifically interested, as it relates, Dr. Roberts, to the deportation of immigrants in this country — just understanding sort of how it is going to work,” MSNBC anchor Alicia Menendez — the daughter of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) — began.
“When you talk about folks on the interior, how you see, a future administration utilizing the National Guard, ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], police forces to deport something like 11 million people.”
Roberts said that the first objective is to “close the border,” followed by “the biggest mass deportation system ever in the history of America.”
“It is unjust and illegal and evil that more than 10 million illegal aliens have come to this country. It’s imperative that we send those people back, invite them back to come through the legal system,” he argued.
