yes, definitely feel for the 50 people seem they are caught in the middle of the political fight, what about the thousands and thousands and thousands facing the trouble at the border. we should care about them, too. john: we heard hillary clinton liken it to human trafficking. listen to what karine jean-pierre said. they use them as political pawns, treated them like chattel in a political stunt, these are the tactics we see from smugglers in places like mexico and guatemala, and for what. a photo op? because these governors care about creating political theater. john: not sure who wrote that out for her, but similar language to what hillary clinton was using here. shannon: very similar. and who controls the white house, the house and the senate, democrats. if they wanted to get something done, they have the numbers to strong arm something and i think there would be some republicans in the senate who would go along with them on sensible immigration reforms.
look what we are talking about here now. basically they have co-opted the other side into helping them popularize and put out there the real burdens that come from this unrestrained flow of migrants. john: you know, i want to bring in olivia here, too. because karine jean-pierre was pretty strident in her words today describing what both desantis and abbott had been doing. listen here. they use them as political pawns, treated them like chattel in a cruel premeditated political stunt. these are the kinds of tactics we see from smugglers in places like mexico and guatemala. and, for what? a photo op.? because these governors care about creating political theater. john: i don t think there is any doubt here olivia that everybody is playing politics on this. what constantly gets lost in the back and forth is at that time fact that more than 2 million people have come across the border this fiscal year so far and it s not over yet and that s a new record.
he s my guest. let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. ron desantis is vowing that his two flights of undocumented immigrants to martha s vineyard are just the beginning. these are just the beginning efforts. we ve got an infrastructure in place now. there s going to be a lot more than happening. we are going to use it, and you re going to see more and more. now, ironically that $12 million that he refers to is coming from interest earned on coronavirus aid funds, aid funds that came from president biden. well, you see how desantis is using it in his threat tonight. republicans and democrats are at an all-out war of words. they use them as political pawns, treated them like chattel in a cruel premeditated political stunt. if they will not go to the border, we re taking the border to them so they can see the
and, you know, one thing that i have seen in these past two days is that it s very likely that republicans are going to pull something off like this close to an election. but this is allow. this is illegal. and this shows that the governor, not just desantis, but governor abbott and doocy from arizona, that they are willing to use people like me, people like the asylum seekers we saw as objects. i mean, they see us as objects that can be moved around to be able to make a political statement. and that is just sad and it breaks my heart to see that they see us like that. i think you put it starkly. and erin, to join the conversation, when erika says, treating people as property, treating people as chattel was the legal term in american history, there s nothing new in
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