MSNBC: ‘Xenophobic Nonsense’ to Say Migrant Parents Endangering Children

Newsbusters.org ^ | December 17, 2018 | Kyle Drennen

[Kaslin]

Appearing on MSNBC Live With Katy Tur Monday afternoon to discuss illegal immigration, reporter Cal Perry launched into a rant claiming that anyone criticizing migrant parents for bringing their children on the dangerous journey to the United States was spewing “xenophobic nonsense.” He even claimed that the U.S. was responsible for violence in Latin America.

While talking about the death of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl, Jakelin Caal, in Border Patrol custody, Perry understandably sympathized: “So it’s a terrible decision as a parent. Do you go into the desert, like Jakelin did, and risk your child’s life, right? Or do you sit at a center in Juarez and risk your child’s life?”

MSNBC: ‘Xenophobic Nonsense’ to Say Migrant Parents Endangering Children

 

Tur lamented: “There are folks out there who watch this and they say, ‘Hey listen, our country wasn’t  designed for this. It wasn’t designed to let anyone come over the border and say, ‘Hey, I want to be an American now.’” Putting little thought into the reasoning behind such a position, she flippantly claimed that “the political argument would be, ‘Hey, listen, that’s just the way it is. Sorry, it’s just the way it is.’”

Moments later, Perry blasted people who held such views and ranted that American foreign policy created the chaos in Central America that migrants were fleeing:

Our country was designed for exactly this. America is an idea. And America is an idea that everybody should take a part in. It’s an idea of civil liberties. This is what you and I signed up for. America is a shining light on a hill. Those kids can see El Paso, they can see the shining light on the hill.

So this xenophobic stuff about, “These kids are sick.” This xenophobic nonsense about, “Parents are putting their children in danger.” Parents are fleeing deadly violence across Latin America, oftentimes as a result of the policies that this government has put into place. I’m not talking about the Trump government, I’m talking about years and years of American history.     

Wrapping up the segment, Tur argued: “Again, no one just gets up one day and says, “I want to walk 2,000 miles for fun with a 2-year-old.” Perry declared: “No, and anyone who says that is xenophobic.”

Earlier, in the 11:00 a.m. ET hour, Perry told anchor Craig Melvin that the Trump administration was to blame for migrants traveling through the desert:

The bottom line is President Trump has said repeatedly he wants migrants to present themselves only at Ports of Entry. How many times have we heard that? And now what we’re hearing from CBP is the Ports of Entry are full and that they cannot take any more people. The end result of this is that you have migrants who are making the decision to go a more dangerous route through the desert. That’s what happened to Jakelin.

He further proclaimed: “It’s something that this administration is doing intentionally to be cruel to send a message to the rest of the world.”

Perry is not a reporter, he is a left-wing activist parroting carefully-crafted partisan talking points to push a political agenda. There is simply no other way to interpret such incendiary statements.

2:41 PM ET

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CAL PERRY: Up until a few months ago, you could come to the border, you present yourself to CBP officials, and you start asylum process. That, by the way, is international law. What's happening now is the Trump administration, in coordination with their counterparts in Mexico, have agreed to put these migrants in a center in Juarez. And that’s the video you’re seeing of the numbers on their arms. Now, it’s important to note that Mexican groups are putting these numbers on the arm, partly to attract this kind of attention. But it’s a Catch 22 –

KATY TUR: Why? Because it looks like the Holocaust?

PERRY: Yeah, yeah, because it looks like the holocaust because these people are being treated like numbers. We’re down to about 60 a day. It’s what’s called metering. Only 60 people allowed across the border per day.

I want to show you a statement from CBP. We got this late last night. We pressed them on an answer, why is this happening? And what they gave us was basically a statement that says the “Port of Entry facilities were not designed to hold hundreds of people at a time when these people are seeking asylum.”

So President Trump is telling the world you have to present yourself at a Port of Entry. We’ve heard him say that a hundred times. CBP is now saying the Ports of Entry are full. So these kids with the numbers on their arms, who can see El Paso from where they are, have no way of getting there in any reasonable time or fashion. Juarez is not a safe place.

So it’s a terrible decision as a parent. Do you go into the desert, like Jakelin did, and risk your child’s life, right? Or do you sit at a center in Juarez and risk your child’s life? These families are coming from horrible places, these people know what’s going on. This idea that folks don’t understand the dangers is crazy. They’re making the decision, “If I’m separated from my child, it’ll be better than what I live with now. If something happens to me, it’ll be better than what I live with now.” All of these kids know there’s a chance they'll be separated from their parents. The thing that was striking was none of them would go more than an arm’s length away from mom or dad because they’ve been told, “If I turn around and I don’t see you, I may never see you again.”

TUR: There are folks out there who watch this and they say, “Hey listen, our country wasn’t designed for this. It wasn’t designed to let anyone come over the border and say, ‘Hey, I want to be an American now.’” And the political argument would be, “Hey, listen, that’s just the way it is. Sorry, it’s just the way it is.” Listen to what Jason Chaffetz, who used to be a congressman, is now an analyst for Fox News, said.

JASAN CHAFFETZ: The sad reality is we have a 7-year-old girl who has died and she should have never, ever made that journey. And that should be the message, “Don’t make this journey, it will kill you.” And that should be the message.

TUR: Obviously that wasn’t Jason Chaffetz in the beginning there, but that was him at the end.

PERRY: Our country was designed for exactly this. America is an idea. And America is an idea that everybody should take a part in. It’s an idea of civil liberties. This is what you and I signed up for. America is a shining light on a hill. Those kids can see El Paso, they can see the shining light on the hill.

So this xenophobic stuff about, “These kids are sick.” This xenophobic nonsense about, “Parents are putting their children in danger.” Parents are fleeing deadly violence across Latin America, oftentimes as a result of the policies that this government has put into place. I’m not talking about the Trump government, I’m talking about years and years of American history.

TUR: I think any parent would tell you that you don’t put your kids in a dangerous position unless, you just don’t. Unless it’s the only position you have.

PERRY: And these folks know that the child separation policy is going on. So the folks who are showing up in Juarez, it’s not as though I'm saying to them, “Do you know there’s a chance you could be separated from your child?” They’re saying to me, “I’ve prepared my child for the fact that I might be separated from them and never see them again.”

TUR: Remarkable, remarkable. Again, no one just gets up one day and says, “I want to walk 2,000 miles for fun with a 2-year-old.

PERRY: No, and anyone who says that is xenophobic.

[lowbridge]

What is keeping MSNBC on the air? How is it staying on the air?

[Don Corleone]

A “White” mother lets her kid walk to the playground and is hounded damn near to death!! Bug off Marxist Liberal
pukes!

[headstamp 2]

[What is keeping MSNBC on the air? How is it staying on the air?]

Its a “loss leader” to spew leftist propaganda as are all the rest of them.

[The_Media_never_lie]

What is keeping MSNBC on the air? How is it staying on the air?

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Apparently, MSNBC has sponsors who con't mind supporting subjecting US people to propaganda.

[Lurkinanloomin]

It’s so good for kids to be removed from their homes, dragged illegally through several countries to break into the USA where they will be locked up...../s

[Thank You Rush]

Maybe they should tune in to FOX and see what the father thinks about it...or just sit in front of their computer and do searches on him.. He’s not blaming the president or anyone in the US but why admit they’re spouting nonsense?

[Tennessee Nana]

Lets just cut to the chase for this one...

If I make my small children walk through the desert for days without water or food I would go straight to jail (do not pass go)

[bgill]

Our cable company doesn’t offer MSNBC. Wonder how many others don’t, either.

Last week, people went nuts over a 10 year old having to walk to school because she got kicked off the school bus a couple of times. Dad made her walk 5 miles and he followed in the car. OH, THE HUMANITY!!!! 5 miles!!!!! Yet, these same people don’t give a thought to toddlers walking (yeah, they got rides) 2000 miles to the US border.

[Peter ODonnell]

Whatever motivates a person to think that open borders and unlimited migration would be a good thing, whether it’s naive idealism or cynical foreknowledge of revolutionary consequences, there simply is no justification for such a policy and the Democrats should be forced in the next election to say yes or no, either they support open borders or they admit to playing political games and that they would not handle things that much differently.

Open borders with no limitations would mean that a huge percentage of the earth’s population would choose to live in developed countries whether it was the U.S.A., Canada, western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, some parts of South America and a few other choice locations. None of these countries have an open border policy although some European countries have allowed considerable refugee immigration in recent years. If any of these countries actually said, “hey, just come on in here, if you can get here, and in fact we will help you,” by this time in 2019 their populations would double and they would have a huge social catastrophe exploding (on a scale that would dwarf current problems).

The U.S.A. would be the biggest magnet of all these countries, or equally large, and an open border policy would probably mean mass mobilization of populations in countries to the south as well as around the world, just as a speculative guess, fifty million economic refugees (for want of a better term) would arrive, almost all with few if any job skills, none speaking English, except for a few terrorists implanted in their midst.

This would clearly be an untenable situation and the economy could collapse within months.

The current Democratic policy seems to be, “okay we know all that, but so what?”

If they can bring in enough bogus voters, who agree with the so what part, then they can win elections, and most of them are rich enough to hide behind walls and gates while the average schmuck has to fend for themselves. This could be described in the real world as treason.

[Tennessee Nana]

Every day my white mother got up and decided to have me walk 17/20 of a mile to school just for fun...

[chris37]

Hey, MSNBC, let’s go ask the dead little girl if she felt endangered before she died, or even after she died.

[moovova]

"Come on kids...let's go outside and play."

[Kaslin]

Especially when hardly anyone watches it.

[ifinnegan]

Notice how their positions are not positions or analysis but purely ad hominem.

[ifinnegan]

Really, all the TV people are idiots, no natter what side they are on.

[Kaslin]

And you would deserve jail time.

[bray]

Everybody but me is a racist!

[ifinnegan]

“Whatever motivates a person to think that open borders and unlimited migration would be a good thing”

The irony is that was the long time libertarian position.

Liberals and leftists now take up the libertarian position.

[Kaslin]

Wow, you're lucky. Ours does, but I just ignore the channel, the same as I do ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC.

This is a good dad and he needs to be commented instead of criticized