Despite being a former federal prosecutor, The View’s Sunny Hostin didn’t like to see certain laws enforced. During Friday’s edition of the show, the ABC News co-host lashed out at American voters for wanting President Trump to actually enforce American’s immigration laws and suggested that such wants were a symptom of the “lack of empathy in this country.” Additionally, she and co-host Ana Navarro downplayed the possible gang affiliation of man recently deported to El Salvador.

According to Hostin, “the cruelty” of actually enforcing immigration law was “the point.” “And when you ask the question, ‘is this what people voted for,’ yeah, I do think so. I think people thought: ‘it's not going to happen to me or mine.’ That's what I think,” she chided.

Hostin lashed out at American voters by suggesting that they were okay with their neighbor being deported but only took issue when it was a family member:

You know, its okay for it to happen to your neighbor. It's okay to happen to that other person but now that it's happening to American citizens, naturalized citizens, people with green cards, people that are legally here, people's sister, brothers, sister-in-laws; now, I think people are thinking, ‘oh, but I didn't vote for that. I didn't vote for my family to be hurt.’

“And it's a lack of empathy in this country. It is a lack of empathy,” Hostin declared.

Where was Hostin’s empathy for the innocent Americans like Laken Riley and other killed by illegal immigrants?

 

 

Continuing to decry the deportation of illegals, Hostin teamed up with fake Republican Ana Navarro to downplay the possible gang affiliation of a man recently deported to El Salvador. According to Navarro, he was only deported because he had tattoos and a Chicago Bulls hoodie:

HOSTIN: In particular, I know – I think, Ana, you're probably going to mention this but the removal of Kilmar Armando Abrego-Garcia. He’s a Salvadorian national who was granted protective status by an immigration judge. He was taken from an IKEA parking lot with his 5-year-old autistic son in the car with him, and he is married to an American citizen and he is legally protected. He is a legal person here.

BEHAR: So, what did they base this kidnapping on?

ANA NAVARRO: They have this point system that they use where if you have tattoos, if you're wearing a Chicago Bulls hoodie, if -- things like that is what they are basing it on.

“If you are going to pick up people with tattoos, then Pete Hegseth should be very concerned,” Navarro sneered.

What they failed to disclose was the fact that not one, but two immigration courts found that there was enough evidence to suggest Garcia was in league with the Salvadorian gang MS-13. Apparently, a trusted confidential informant could confirm to federal authorities that Garcia was a ranking member in the gang. When Garcia was first arrested in 2019, he was allegedly associating with other members of MS-13.

 

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Navarro went further than just decrying how illegals were being deported, she even scoffed at the idea that gangs like MS-13 were a problem at all. “Look, in my view, these people, mostly men, the ones that they sent to El Salvador are men, are props as part of Donald Trump's sick, cruel charade,” she shouted. “[Trump] built this narrative that there was this gang that was overtaking America…”

As if Trump was turning the United States into a neo-Soviet Union, she accused Trump of “disappearing people.”

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
April 4. 2025
11:04:33 a.m. Eastern

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JOY BEHAR: It's cruel.

[Applause]

SUNNY HOSTIN: The cruelty. You said it's cruel, Joy. The cruelty seems, to me, to be the point. And when you ask the question, ‘is this what people voted for,’ yeah, I do think so. I think people thought: ‘it's not going to happen to me or mine.’ That's what I think.

You know, its okay for it to happen to your neighbor. It's okay to happen to that other person but now that it's happening to American citizens, naturalized citizens, people with green cards, people that are legally here, people's sister, brothers, sister-in-laws; now, I think people are thinking, ‘oh, but I didn't vote for that. I didn't vote for my family to be hurt.’ And it's a lack of empathy in this country. It is a lack of empathy.

BEHAR: Why couldn't they send them back, though?

SARA HAINES: They could. They could make phone calls.

HOSTIN: If the United States has an agreement with, let’s say, El Salvador to house people. They're paying El Salvadorian prisons to pay people, then why doesn't the White House say, ‘I want that person back because that was a mistake.’

Generally, the Supreme Court has found that Congress has to act and has to sort of make this type of law. And as Alyssa mentioned, this is completely unconstitutional. The minute you get here into the United States, especially if you have legal status, the Constitution applies to you too. And so, the fact that this is happening is something that every American citizen should be extremely concerned about.

In particular, I know – I think, Ana, you're probably going to mention this but the removal of Kilmar Armando Abrego-Garcia. He’s a Salvadorian national who was granted protective status by an immigration judge. He was taken from an IKEA parking lot with his 5-year-old autistic son in the car with him, and he is married to an American citizen and he is legally protected. He is a legal person here.

BEHAR: So, what did they base this kidnapping on?

ANA NAVARRO: They have this point system that they use where if you have tattoos, if you're wearing a Chicago Bulls hoodie, if -- things like that is what they are basing it on. If you are going to pick up people with tattoos, then Pete Hegseth should be very concerned.

[Applause]

But, you know, look –

HOSTIN: It’s profiling!

BEHAR: Madonna and Cher both have tattoos, just saying. Brian, do you have one?

BRIAN TETA: No, I don't.

BEHAR: All right.

[Laughter]

NAVARRO: I'm really glad and grateful that we're talking about this because America cannot get numb to the cruelty that is going on and being inflicted on the Latino community, specifically by the Trump administration.

Look, in my view, these people, mostly men, the ones that they sent to El Salvador are men, are props as part of Donald Trump's sick, cruel charade. He built this narrative that there was this gang that was overtaking America, and that he was going to send hardened criminals and rapists, monsters to this -- out of the country, get rid of them. The problem is that finding them, identifying them, is not that easy so then they're picking up – they are – Understand this, they are disappearing people.

Some of these wives and loved ones are finding out that their husbands, that their brothers are in this jail because they happened to see a video that was put out by the government of El Salvador. Can you imagine the grief, the distress, the sadness, the anxiety of a loved one not knowing where your relative is because they've been picked up off the street while they're with the deaf, autistic, 5-year-old, U.S. citizen son or because they are disappeared from an ICE appointment?

What kind of country is this?! America, we cannot let this continue! You have got to stand up! You have got to call your Congress people.

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