Whitmer said, ‘it’s not breaking news, but its worth pointing out’.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich., said Tuesday that she agreed with “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin’s assessment that President Donald Trump’s deportations were targeting “Brown people.”
“I also want to make the point that an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal because he or she is undocumented. That is a civil offense. So to call people illegals is in it and of itself, I think, xenophobic and racist,” Hostin said. “And so what we are doing again is we have decided as a country to demonize a certain type of immigrant, a certain looking type of immigrant, and those immigrants are either from Central America or Mexico, they are Brown. There are a lot of undocumented immigrants here, about 40% of them who come from other countries that aren’t Brown, but we are not rounding them up.”
The co-hosts discussed Trump’s immigration policies and more with Whitmer during an interview. Whitmer said that the U.S. had failed to secure the southern border, but absolved the Biden administration from blame.