Co-host of “The View,” Sunny Hostin, is a bit of an enigma. She says a lot of stuff on the program against former President Donald Trump and often sides with the liberals on the talk show concerning their various political stances. That’s what happened during the Friday edition of the program where she interrupted co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin who was, surprisingly, defending the border policies of Trump. Maybe Griffin’s got a fever or something?
If that’s the case, there’s only one cure. More cowbell. If you know, you know.
Griffin stated during the segment that American voters are feeling betrayed by President Joe Biden when it comes to the issue of border security. She then pointed out the extremely high number of migrant apprehensions that have taken place during the Biden administration, which went above 2 million over the fiscal years of 2022 and 2023.
“But what I worry about is for a lot of voters, they feel like Joe Biden basically sat on this issue for three years and is finally waking up to it when Republicans have been saying ‘this is a crisis,’ ‘this is a crisis.’ It took too long to acknowledge it was a crisis and in one month, you had 300,000 people come under the Biden administration. That’s more than all of the first year of Trump’s term. Voters see that,” Griffin argued.
“Oh, I’m sorry, but Biden has deported more people than Trump has during his entire administration,” co-host Sunny Hostin interrupted. That’s easy to do when you have hundreds of thousands of people crossing into the country illegally every single month. Just a little inconvenient fact.
“Because they didn’t come in in the first place,” Griffin fired back. That was a good one.
“No, that’s not true,” Hostin replied. ” [Former Presidents Bill] Clinton, [Barack] Obama, Democrats have deported more people. That’s not something that I’m proud of, but they deported more people.”
via The Daily Caller:
Customs and Border Protection deported more than 142,000 immigrants in the 2023 fiscal year, which began in October 2022, according to The Washington Post. This number is nearly double the amount deported in the 2022 fiscal year and largely surpasses the 14,400 deportations during Trump’s final year in office.
Illegal migrant apprehensions during the current administration have nearly tripled the amount crossing the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump administration. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered over 3 million migrants in the 2023 fiscal year, and encounters have already surpassed 1.2 million in the 2024 fiscal year which began in October 2023.
CBP encountered 400,651 illegal migrants in the 2020 fiscal year, Trump’s final year in office, according to the agency’s data. CBP apprehended a record-high of over 301,000 migrants in December alone, according to the agency’s apprehension data.
Griffin nailed it with her comment explaining why Biden has had more deportation, noting that there weren’t that many individuals crossing the border when Trump was calling the shots. That’s because they knew he would enforce the law. And he did. Trump isn’t a racist for wanting to make sure law and order are kept in the streets of America. That makes him a good leader looking out for his people.