‘This Is America!’: CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield Lets Immigrant-Haters Absolutely Have It
The debate over the current crisis involving unaccompanied children crossing the border has been covered with the usual conflict-driven noise, but the voices dominating the mainstream media have been hateful anti-immigrant protesters, and people trying to appease them, or pass their hatefulness off as legitimate concern over policy.
That’s why it was so refreshing to see an anchor at the home of “both sides” balance, CNN, offer up a blistering rebuke to the “send ’em all home” crowd. At the end of a segment on the crisis, Legal View‘s Ashleigh Banfield just kind of lost it on the anti-immigrant trolls she inevitably expected to hear from after she dared to praise the notion of due process. I don’t know about you, but this clip made me want to stand up and cheer…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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Red Eye Robot July 9th, 2014 at 15:02
people who enter America illegally are no more immigrants that someone who breaks into your home is a guest.
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker July 9th, 2014 at 15:17
And refugees are refugees.
America has always been an immigrant nation…just ask the native Americans.
Abby Normal July 9th, 2014 at 16:07
Excellent! That says it all!
m2old4bs July 9th, 2014 at 15:54
Oh geez, what compassion. These children are refugees. They are knocking at our door asking for help. What an utterly selfish notion you have here about life and those who are less fortunate than you.
Pistol-Packing July 9th, 2014 at 16:44
These children did not just leave on their own. Who sent them? Who is financing thier journey? They are all prepared with the right things to say. There is a much bigger story here, and it is not getting looked at. And they are not refugees from a war, so please stop using that talking point.
Tommy6860 July 9th, 2014 at 17:26
Who made the international rule that only the result of war makes refugees?
fahvel July 10th, 2014 at 13:31
and the bigger story is???????????????????????/ great allusion to nothing.
Pistol-Packing July 10th, 2014 at 13:52
WELL !!! Ask yourself… Who is paying for all of these children and families?? We all know that the Mexican Coyotes charge a couple a thousand per person to cross them into the US. Who is feeding them along the way?? Who is taking care of their needs??
Red Eye Robot July 9th, 2014 at 15:02
people who enter America illegally are no more immigrants that someone who breaks into your home is a guest.
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker July 9th, 2014 at 15:17
And refugees are refugees.
America has always been an immigrant nation…just ask the native Americans.
Abby Normal July 9th, 2014 at 16:07
Excellent! That says it all!
m2old4bs July 9th, 2014 at 15:54
Oh geez, what compassion. These children are refugees. They are knocking at our door asking for help. What an utterly selfish notion you have here about life and those who are less fortunate than you.
Pistol-Packing July 9th, 2014 at 16:44
These children did not just leave on their own. Who sent them? Who is financing thier journey? They are all prepared with the right things to say. There is a much bigger story here, and it is not getting looked at. And they are not refugees from a war, so please stop using that talking point.
Tommy6860 July 9th, 2014 at 17:26
Who made the international rule that only the result of war makes refugees?
fahvel July 10th, 2014 at 13:31
and the bigger story is???????????????????????/ great allusion to nothing.
Pistol-Packing July 10th, 2014 at 13:52
WELL !!! Ask yourself… Who is paying for all of these children and families?? We all know that the Mexican Coyotes charge a couple a thousand per person to cross them into the US. Who is feeding them along the way?? Who is taking care of their needs??
R.J. Carter July 9th, 2014 at 16:19
Mexico’s immigration policy is far more stringent that is the United States’.
How did these kids cross the southern Mexican border?
Pistol-Packing July 9th, 2014 at 16:32
I keep asking myself the same thing. But Mexico allows this human train to keep rolling right on through.
Before my wife and I were married, we could not even get her a tourist visa to go to a resort with me in Cancun. No doubt in my mind, Mexico turns a blind eye to the amount of immigrants coming through.
Tommy6860 July 9th, 2014 at 17:24
Is it really as simple as that? I’ll add one element to this that is very plausible for this happening; drug lords controlling areas of Mexico.
R.J. Carter July 10th, 2014 at 09:49
Yup. Including areas of the government. So the kids could get through the southern border with their help — but then they have to get all the way across the country, a Children’s Crusade going “unnoticed” by the government all the way to the northern border.
Tommy6860 July 10th, 2014 at 16:24
And that’s still too simple. It’s not as if they’re being funneled through a pipe where it would be obvious activity. Mexico is a fairly large country that has about 120m people and most of the peoples of Central America are ethnically homogenous including Mexico and speak the same language. So it is hard to distinguish the difference between Hondurans, El Salvadorans, and so on.
Tommy6860 July 10th, 2014 at 16:24
And that’s still too simple. It’s not as if they’re being funneled through a pipe where it would be obvious activity. Mexico is a fairly large country that has about 120m people and most of the peoples of Central America are ethnically homogenous including Mexico and speak the same language. So it is hard to distinguish the difference between Hondurans, El Salvadorans, and so on.
R.J. Carter July 9th, 2014 at 16:19
Mexico’s immigration policy is far more stringent that is the United States’.
How did these kids cross the southern Mexican border?
Pistol-Packing July 9th, 2014 at 16:32
I keep asking myself the same thing. But Mexico allows this human train to keep rolling right on through.
Before my wife and I were married, we could not even get her a tourist visa to go to a resort with me in Cancun. No doubt in my mind, Mexico turns a blind eye to the amount of immigrants coming through.
Tommy6860 July 9th, 2014 at 17:24
Is it really as simple as that? I’ll add one element to this that is very plausible for this happening; drug lords controlling areas of Mexico.
R.J. Carter July 10th, 2014 at 09:49
Yup. Including areas of the government. So the kids could get through the southern border with their help — but then they have to get all the way across the country, a Children’s Crusade going “unnoticed” by the government all the way to the northern border.
Tommy6860 July 10th, 2014 at 16:24
And that’s still too simple. It’s not as if they’re being funneled through a pipe where it would be obvious activity. Mexico is a fairly large country that has about 120m people and most of the peoples of Central America are ethnically homogenous including Mexico and speak the same language. So it is hard to distinguish the difference between Hondurans, El Salvadorans, and so on.
labman57 July 9th, 2014 at 18:39
We’re witnessing the social conservatives’ notion of “American exceptionalism” at play.
I’m sorry, but an angry mob congregating to scare the crap out of a busload of women and children is not my idea of Americana.
Unless, of course, I missed the part in “The New Colossus” … on the Statue of Liberty … which describes Latino immigrants as ‘germ sponges’ to be shunned and despised.
labman57 July 9th, 2014 at 18:39
We’re witnessing the social conservatives’ notion of “American exceptionalism” at play.
I’m sorry, but an angry mob congregating to scare the crap out of a busload of women and children is not my idea of Americana.
Unless, of course, I missed the part in “The New Colossus” … on the Statue of Liberty … which describes Latino immigrants as ‘germ sponges’ to be shunned and despised.