CNN Commentator: ICE Brought My Ancestors Here on a Slave Ship
By Chris Agee
August 3, 2018 at 10:04am
After White House adviser Ivanka Trump opined on her father’s immigration policy this week, a pair of CNN commentators debated whether her denunciation of family separation was sufficiently robust.
Though President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter described the controversial border practice as a “low point,” she went on to defend the administration’s broader hard-line approach to immigration.
Attorney and liberal commentator Angela Rye appeared with Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” on Thursday to discuss the first daughter’s response.
“This is not right,” Rye said of the Trump administration policy. “It is inhumane. And for Ivanka to say at first this is a low point and then to defend the policy means it was not a low enough point.”
She went on to say describe Ivanka Trump’s comments as disingenuous, comparing those who enforce the current immigration law to those who commissioned the slave trade.
“All I’m saying to you is simply this: You can’t say that I’m against separating families and then in the other breath say they shouldn’t be coming here to begin with and they’re going to be separated until they are deported, and then their parents are deported without them,” she said. “What do you say to the 463 adults who have been deported without their children?”
Given a chance to respond, Miller dismissed Rye as “part of the open borders crew,” prompting her to call out his perceived hypocrisy.
“I can’t wait to see your genealogy and see if you have any illegal immigration in your family,” she said. “I don’t know what you’re talking about. You never once asked me if I’m for open borders.”