Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders slammed “The View” co-host Ana Navarro for allegedly twisting her words as she offered President Donald Trump praise for securing the border and helping to end the immigration crisis that started during former President Joe Biden’s administration. During the program, Navarro brought up that the president stated during a recent interview with “60 Minutes” that he might have been “too tough” on immigration.
Navarro then asked Sanders, “I’m wondering if you agree with him, and if he actually believes that? How do you reconcile elevating Stephen Miller, the architect of some of the most draconian immigration policies that we saw in Trump 1 when you were there, and now in Trump 2, including family separations and the Muslim travel ban? How do those two things go together? Make it make sense, because it makes no sense to me.”
Sanders, who served as President Trump’s second press secretary during his first stint in the White House, replied, “I think the first thing is the president was exactly right to secure our border and to put an intense focus on violent, criminal illegals. I think that was the right place. I think it needed to happen–” Navarro then interjected, saying, “I have to stop you there because the majority of the people that are being detained and deported do not have violent criminal convictions.”
The Arkansas Republican fired back by stating that wasn’t what she said. “You’re not going to twist my words around. What I said was the president was right to focus on those people. I think we have to have a secure border, and I think he did that. At the same time, I think he is right to be reflective and say there were certain people we shouldn’t have cracked down on,” Sanders told Navarro, according to Fox News.
Trump spoke with “60 Minutes” on November 8, telling host Ross Douthat that his immigration policy might have been “too tough.” Trump said, “I think it both helped and hurt. I think I got an A-plus for closing up the border… I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out.” He then went on to admit that many of the illegal aliens living in the U.S. were “good” people.
“But I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that — that created one violation, or breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally. Now, there is a large part of the country that think that they should be put out. And there’s a large part of the country that think that they should be allowed to stay if they’re good people working in a landscaping company, or working in a hotel, or doing something, right?” Trump said.
“And in some cases, paying taxes. And there’s a large group of people [who] think that they should be allowed to stay,” he added. During “The View,” Sanders recalled the account of an Arkansas pediatric nurse who she said was killed by an illegal alien in a drunk-driving accident. “There was a woman, Jennifer Ann Morton,” Sanders started.
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“She’s a pediatric nurse in my state. She should be alive today if it had not been for an illegal immigrant that killed her on her way to work because they were driving drunk,” she told the hosts of the show. “That shouldn’t have happened. That person was deported during Trump 1, came back under the Biden administration, and now she is no longer living in my state taking care of some of the most vulnerable children in our state.”
Co-host Sunny Hostin offered pushback, saying, “What about the 97% of those that [Trump] deported that did nothing criminal?” Sanders went on to say that President Trump was correct in taking time to reflect on some of his immigration policies, noting that he made a call for extensive, comprehensive immigration reform.
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