Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade claimed that people who abuse the United States’ asylum laws are “worse” than criminals and killers during a segment regarding the Trump administration’s new immigration proposal.
On Wednesday, the administration unveiled a new plan that would allow for families of undocumented people to be detained indefinitely, instead of the current system, which allows children to be held for a maximum of 20 days.
“The goal is not to hold families indefinitely,” Kilmeade began. “The goal is to bring organization to a situation that is out of control because people were abusing it. They were grabbing kids, in a third of the cases, that were not theirs. Recycling those kids in order to get into the interior of the country in 20 days.”
He went on to say that “432,000 members of family units have been taken into custody” from October of 2018 through last month.
Ainsley Earhardt continued, “So they come across our border, we put them in a detention facility, if they have kids with them they can be released right now after 20 days. The president is saying look, the majority of these people are good people. But what if, in that mix is a criminal, what if in that mix is a killer? He is saying we need to hold them together because some of these kids aren’t even — they aren’t even their parents. They are lying to get across the border.”
Kilmeade continued, “And just the key thing is, killers and criminals bad, but what’s worse is people abusing the system to break the asylum system, just grabbing a kid because I would rather be in America rather than another country. That’s just not the way it works.”
Steve Doocy then affirmed Kilmeade’s comment and pivoted in a new direction about immigration.
