"Invasion!"
Posted on 04/06/2018 7:54:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
CNN's New Day co-host Alisyn Camerota once again revealed her liberal bias regarding illegal immigration on Friday morning, when she asked guest and Republican Congressman Mo Brooks (Ala.) why he used the word “invasion” while discussing the caravan of migrants who headed for the American border earlier this week.
Brooks, who discussed the topic from an economic perspective during the interview, responded: “Because that’s the word that applies.”
Camerota began the segment by reading a statement released by Brooks while emphasizing certain words.
I fully support President Trump’s use of our military to secure the border against invasion by foreign nationals. Recent highly publicized caravans of thousands of foreigners heading for America’s border emphasize that it is past time for Congress to reform laws that entice and reward foreign nationals who illegally invade America.
“Congressman, why are you using the word ‘invasion,’ an illegal invasion there?” she inquired.
“Because that’s the word that applies,” Brooks replied. “If you go to Webster’s dictionary, it absolutely fits that definition.”
“But isn’t this the process for seeking asylum?” the CNN co-host asked. "Don’t people show up on our shores and borders seeking political asylum?”
“As often happens, these folks come into the United States of America illegally when they cross our borders,” Brooks noted.
Mo Brooks HEATED Interview with CNN Alisyn Camerota on Migrants Caravan Rushing to US-Mexican Border
In fact, he continued, many illegal immigrants “are advised by lawyers to say the right things that need to be said in order to be able to stay in the United States of America.”
“The net effect is that it’s costing us, this illegal immigration problem, $116 billion a year in net tax losses at the city-county-state level and the federal level, and we don’t have that kind of money,” he stated.
Brooks added: “It’s also costing our American and lawful immigrants jobs, and they’re suffering from wage suppression because of the huge surge in the labor supply.”
“That’s debatable, right?” Camerota asked. “There are all sorts of numbers on the other side that show that immigration has helped this country, and they’re the backbone of our economy.”
“Immigration ... is different from illegal aliens,” the guest interjected. “We have the most generous lawful immigration policy on the planet.”
In fact, he continued, many illegal immigrants “are advised by lawyers to say the right things that need to be said in order to be able to stay in the United States of America.”
“The net effect is that it’s costing us, this illegal immigration problem, $116 billion a year in net tax losses at the city-county-state level and the federal level, and we don’t have that kind of money,” he stated.
Brooks added: “It’s also costing our American and lawful immigrants jobs, and they’re suffering from wage suppression because of the huge surge in the labor supply.”
“That’s debatable, right?” Camerota asked. “There are all sorts of numbers on the other side that show that immigration has helped this country, and they’re the backbone of our economy.”
“[I]mmigration ... is different from illegal aliens,” the guest interjected. “We have the most generous lawful immigration policy on the planet.”
Camerota, who approached the topic from a humanitarian perspective, described the caravan as “something like 1,000 people from Central America, and they say that they are fleeing persecution, they’re fleeing violence in their home countries, and they’re trying to make it here for asylum.”
“There are literally billions of people who could make that same kind of argument,” Brooks replied, “but the bottom line is: As much as we may want to have compassion for people around the planet under these circumstances, America cannot afford it.”
He continued:
We cannot afford to be the planet’s orphanage, the place where everybody comes and lives off the hard work of Americans and lawful immigrants who are already here
The CNN co-host then asked: “So are you saying that our doors are now closed to people who are fleeing persecution?”
“No,” her guest replied wearily. “When you say they are fleeing persecution, that is a judgment call and something that has to be decided in a legal format. … The caravan is just symbolic of the problem.”
“It sounds like you’re saying we don’t have room for any,” she continued, that “people should no longer come here to our shores if they are fleeing violence and persecution in their home country.”
“We have limitations on how many people we can absorb at any one time,” Brooks responded. “If you want to deny job opportunities to Americans and legal immigrants already here, then fine, be an open border society because that seems to be what you’re arguing for.”
Camerota then cited a 1967 law and stated that “the United States has legal obligations to provide protection and certain rights to those who qualify as refugees.”
“In my opinion,” Brooks responded, “none of those people from Central America are legitimate asylum seekers.”
“How do you know that?” Camerota asked.
“This is not a war zone,” the guest replied.
“How do you know that?” the co-host asked again.
“Because I read,” he responded, “and there is nothing in Central America that suggests to me that there is an armed conflict going on between rebels and government forces or that there are invasions.”
“These are people who are deciding that for economic reasons they want to leave the countries where they are,” Brooks stated, and “will kill the goose that lays the golden egg and will cause tremendous damage to America.”
It’s worth noting that Camerota didn't address any economic concerns regarding illegal immigration. We can only wonder how she’d pay for the policies she promoted.
That’s what foreigners entering your country without permission is called.
Why won’t CNN?? Fake News.
Because it is?
Why not call it an I tell ya what if a bunch of low life Americans in crappy rvs started going south into mexico it would be repelled by the federals
So this is what it’s come to: “CNN supports Jerry Browns use of Central American poor people for legalized Slavery”
Why call stealing a password hacking?
Then why have laws and taxes?
Why then have morality and have words mean things, sonce words and laws themselves can get hacked?
When will the American people reject these political hackers soundly?
"Invasion!"
Wow...I had no idea she was really this much of a loon when she was at Fox.
These illegal migrants are terrorists and body snatchers, basically. They come by force and then pretend they work and pay taxes better than us and figure they can push us off like coocoo birds. I understand the youth latches on aggressively but where is the example of civilization? It seems we have adults who are not grown up any more because of all these word games that were used when young to access a career now keep being used theoughout their lives. In the old time people were allowed to grow up and cherish earning things and abandoning youthful uncivilized pup behavior at the teet.
It is interesting when a millenial black girl at a store talks the same as a Chinese American and white American millenial as all millenials tend to be robotically identical, but it always freaks me out. When I see super ethnic migrant parents barely speaking English and then their kids talking like your average suburbia consumer, in complete disconnect, it is like he is a little boss of them and these older people who in their original country would be respected by the youth and age well end up riding the brat wave of Black Friday.
... and they were bragging its was an invasion and worse.
A large group of people attempting to illegally enter a country ...
Ah, never mind. You’re too stupid to put on your own makeup, Alisyn.
Businesses do business with the Chinese and you have Chinese copies of Boeing plants being built
Then you have illegals coming here by cheating and terrorism instead of earning and cherishing the country of origin , only to body snatch the limelight as now taxpaying reasonable neighbors so much nicer than Americans...
Then you got Bloomberg doing his mayors of the world with cop exchange programs and cops in Peru allowing a US cop to get a gun and vice versa, and next thing you know you have a muslim cop in Dearborn shooting a blond Australian tourist ... but he is just a cop...
Then you have Fudd Rino Cheney types who go on Panda and Elephant hunting trips with Chinese generals and then, one day, surprise surprise...
The Chinese general has a hunting accident and kills Cheney
The American cop gets in a dispute and gets shot by Chinese and muslim cops
The migrants riot and “marry”/rape your daughter and kills you the father objecting
And Nuclear weapons fly from the Chinese Boeing plant to blow up the Boeing plant in Seattle if it has not been Detroit-ized yet
The body snatchers have taken over, the people see too high a cost to resist and resign themselves as slaves and others to suicide
Now, change "yard or house" to "country."
That's not so hard to understand, is it? It's a pre-school concept so it's hard to believe you don't understand it.
Now would you like me to show you how doorknobs work? Or how to tie shoes? Or how to flush a toilet? Or how to use a switch to turn on lights?
Because, English?
Leave it to CNN libs to fail to tell the truth. One of the definitions of invasion is: “an unwelcome intrusion into another’s domain.”
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize they are trying to illegally enter the US making them trespassers and causing the spending of taxpayer money and services for them to survive in this country.
The stupidity is they have not been attacked or harmed in Mexico. If this is the case, then they have reached sanctuary and do not need to go to the US for protection. They already have it. This thought that they need sanctuary from the US only is idiotic.
rwood
I think she’s just stupid.
Send the caravan people to all of the stupid bleeding heart libtards. They can meet all of the wants and needs of mostly able bodied men.
Why call Alyson Camerota an intelligent human being?
Didn’t she used to be on Fox?
Let’s call it a turnip. We still want it stopped.
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