MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend corrected her co-host Michael Steele on Saturday when he used the term “illegal immigrant” during an on-air debate with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts.
Steele began asking his guest to clarify his position on “illegal immigrants” in the country before being interrupted by Sanders-Townsend.
“I want to be clear,” Sanders-Townsend told Steele. “We don't use the term 'illegal'. Undocumented people.”
“That's sweet,” Roberts responded. “They are illegal aliens.”
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MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend on Saturday corrected fellow MSNBC analyst Michael Steele when he used the term “illegal immigrant” in a debate about immigration with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts. (MSNBC)
“Undocumented individuals,” Steele said after Sanders-Townsend's correction.
“What you're saying is that because you have this case of individuals behaving badly, that's a reflection of every individual in that community,” Steele told Roberts after pointing out recent murders committed by illegal immigrants.
“In Texas,” Sanders-Townsend also told Roberts, “undocumented immigrants were 37.1% less likely to be convicted of a crime.”
“Tell that to the survivors of these people,” Roberts responded, referring to the murder of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, by a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela.
“Tell that to the survivors of the young woman murdered in Georgia,” he added. “What do you say to the parents of those people, of those young women who were murdered?”
“You're using a horrible murder as a weapon to smear 11 million people,” Sanders-Townsend later told Roberts.
“That's a ridiculous statement,” Roberts said. “What Joe Biden is doing is turning the entire government into a weapon against all Americans.”
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“Well, first of all, we need to close the border,” Roberts said. (Christian Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Roberts was also asked how a conservative administration could successfully deport illegal immigrants.
“Well, first of all, we need to close the border,” Roberts said. “And second, we need to have the largest mass deportation system ever seen in American history because it is unjust, illegal and evil that more than 10 million illegal aliens have come to this country. It is imperative that we return those people “We invite them back through the legal system. We love immigrants and heritage, but we also love the rule of law.”
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“How do you plan to pull that off?” Sanders-Townsend asked. “Are you talking about going door to door?”
“There will be a lot of self-deportations,” Roberts said, explaining that the “Department of Homeland Security” would help “return these people south of the border.”
