Fox blabber says Central Americans are clogging up the refugee system for countries that “actually need our help.”
March 25, 2022

Fox News can't deny that Ukranian refugees need our help. They also can't stop having Donald Trump's ICE Director on to discuss immigration. After all, he's a Fox News contributor!

So...

Of course it's got a nice healthy dollop of anti-brown people racist about it. Transcript and video via Media Matters.

STEVE DOOCY (HOST): I think the average American, you know, over the last month during the war they haven't really thought much about what is going on down there. When they think about migration policies of the United States, I think the average American would like to open our doors to people from Ukraine to figure out how to get here.

THOMAS HOMAN (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): Exactly. And Ukraine is probably a population that deserves asylum in this country. But if you look at what's happening on the southwest border now, the Central American surge, the data already shows nine out of 10 Central Americans who claim asylum at the border never get any relief from the U.S. government because they either don't show up in court or they clearly don't qualify. But they're clogging up the entire system of countries that actually need our help, that actually are refugees that need our country's help.

Here's more on Homan. He's a real piece of work.

And here, from our own archives, is Homan being a complete jackass in a Congressional hearing:

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