In Sanders Town Hall, ‘Objective’ Fox Host Promotes Illegal Sanctuary Cities Plan
Fox News’ Martha MacCallum didn’t let a little thing like pretending to be an objective Fox News host get in the way of promoting Donald Trump’s illegal and immoral plan to punish sanctuary cities with immigrant detainees during a series of “questions” to Bernie Sanders during the town hall Monday night.
Just three days ago, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace noted that Trump’s plan to punish sanctuary cities with immigrants is both illegal and counterproductive. Although Wallace didn’t say so, Trump’s claims that immigrants are disease-ridden criminals makes the plan horribly immoral.
But MacCallum presented it as a common sense alternative that as merely “controversial.” She never mentioned the illegality. She prefaced her question to Sanders by saying that sanctuary cities “have said in the past that they have open doors for immigrants.” Then she added, “So the overflow that we have no capacity for, where do you think they should go?”
Sanders replied that there is “a serious problem” at the border. He characterized it as “desperate people fleeing violence and misery in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, with little children walking a thousand miles. They’re not trying to sneak in.” They’re coming to the border and asking for asylum, Sanders continued.