Former BBC host Katty Kay complained Monday during an appearance on “Morning Joe” that there wasn’t “much outcry” over the Trump administration’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants.
Upon taking office on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump issued several executive orders to address illegal immigration, including designating Mexican drug cartels, the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua and MS-13, an El Salvadoran prison gang, as foreign terrorist organizations. “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough noted that the Trump administration didn’t appear to be upset about videos of their deportation practices.
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“Yeah. I mean a lot of what is happening at the moment is about the fight, right, rather than necessarily the substance or even whether the Trump Administration will win when some of these cases come to court, which they inevitably will, which is leaving Democrats now thinking, ‘oh my God, do we have to adopt this same style of kind of fighting because that seems to be the political moment that we’re in?’” Kay said. “On the immigration side, I mean you heard Stephen Miller say in an interview on the lawn of the White House, ‘Look at you,’ to a CBS Reporter. ‘Are you seriously defending people who are here from Venezuela who are gang members?’ Even though there had been no due process to know whether they were gang members. But it was a — it was a kind of perfect demonstration of the way that the administration flips this against any critics to say that you are inherently pro-illegal immigrant, you are inherently pro people who are here illegally or have done bad things.”
United States District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia issued an injunction on March 15 ordering the Trump administration to turn around two planes carrying members of the Venezuelan gang.
A divided three-judge panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the injunction.
“It’s a difficult — it makes it hard for the Democrats to defend the rights of these people, which is why you’re not hearing much outcry. I mean, it was interesting talking to Anne Applebaum just a minute ago off-camera. She was saying we’ve gone further than Hungary in the United States already, just in the space of three months,” Kay said. “Orbán took 10 years to do this. We’ve done it in the space of three months and it’s even more chilling here what is happening, but you’re hearing so little opposition to it from Democrats, so little kind of uni — from law firms, from universities so little resistance. Because they’ve been kind of caught flat-footed. They don’t know how to respond whilst also protecting their own interests.”
The Border Patrol encountered millions of illegal immigrants during the Biden administration, according to figures released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
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