The View’s general refusal to do any serious soul-searching following the Democratic Party’s humiliating loss to President-elect Trump, continued on Monday after they had a weekend to stew on it. With anti-Trump Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin apparently out sick, ABC’s pretend independent Sara Haines was the only person on the set attempting to speak any sense.

While they opened the show by freaking out over Trump nominating former acting ICE director Tom Homan to be his boarder czar, Haines took the (sadly) courageous position of admitting the obvious: “there is a problem at the border, and there's been a problem for decades and decades, and every administration has come through here and no one has fixed it.”

“It ballooned in this last administration, and that's what the people voted on, a referendum on that,” she added.

Haines put her foot down and declared: “either we have laws at the border or we don't. We're asking people to get in line to come to this country while incentivizing people not waiting in the line.”

With possibly the first time any ABC News viewer had heard about any of it, Haines called out the Democrats in so-called “sanctuary cities” for incentivizing illegal immigration with gratuitous handouts. She even pointed to Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) as part of the problem:  

Like, we've seen things where sanctuary cities like California and Illinois, it's kind of like, get to the country, like, kick the can. If you get to base though, you're going to be fine. You also have Tim Walz signed into legislation in Minnesota that allowed undocumented immigrants to receive free in-state tuition.

All these are lovely in spirit, but there are people that can't pay for food for their own families. In New York, they were giving the $500 meal cards. And obviously we want to help someone for the humane interests, but there's a lifeboat here. And I think the rage about the border was also people here that are maybe insecure, homeless at times, making ends meet, and they don't have any of -- they can't send their kid to college. That's the outrage of what I saw the voters say.

 

 

Moderator Whoopi Goldberg responded by chiding the voters for Trump instead of the side that backed an 11^th-hour, election-year border bill. Mischaracterizing the support for the bill, Goldberg misleading claimed: “The Border Patrol agents were saying, this is a good deal for us, and it was stopped – I'm going to repeat that. It was stopped by the man who's just been elected president. He stopped that.”

In reality, the Border Patrol union picked Trump as their candidate.

Fake Republican Ana Navarro took a sick pleasure in her purported Trump-supporting friends worried about losing their illegal immigrant labor. “So, I told them that I suggested they learn how to clean their kids' ass,” the proud childless cat lady proclaimed.

Earlier in the show, Navarro lashed out at America for electing Trump. “[America] screwed around, and you're about to find out,” she snarked.

Haines countered by calling attention to the fact that the Democrats were abusing the asylum system to help illegal immigrants and it was hurting actual asylum seekers:

They changed this asylum rule too though where there are real people that need asylum in this country, and they ballooned that asylum law which meant people were cutting the line and those that were vulnerable, it's been diluted, the pool of people. There should be able to be a real conversation about the problems with immigration.

Staunchly racist Sunny Hostin took to downplaying all the free stuff Democrats were giving illegals. “There's this feeling like you mentioned, that, you know, there are American citizens suffering because other, I guess, funds are being given to undocumented immigrants,” she rhetorically scoffed.

She followed up by claiming illegals were paying billions in taxes and getting no benefits at all, and scolded Americans:

But the fact of the matter is undocumented immigrants paid approximately $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. And so, that is very significant because they pay into things like social security, they pay into things like Medicaid, but they don't get the benefits. So, the notion somehow that they're taking away from American citizens, they're really giving to this country because they want to be here.

“I don't think they know that immigrants are paying these taxes,” she condescendingly added.

“It doesn't mean they're taking away from people that are simultaneously suffering, the outrage of people that are struggling to put food on the table aren’t saying – they're just saying, ‘why aren't we getting some help over here?” Haines pushed back.

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

ABC’s The View
November 11, 2024
11:07:28 a.m. Eastern

(…)

SARA HAINES: I think that the weaponizing of immigrants or equating immigrants to criminals was feeding off people's fears because the statistics don't support that. But there is a problem at the border, and there's been a problem for decades and decades, and every administration has come through here and no one has fixed it.

It ballooned in this last administration, and that's what the people voted on, a referendum on that. Because right now – One thing I've never understood, and I actually think we'll wait to see how this looks, but either we have laws at the border or we don't. We're asking people to get in line to come to this country while incentivizing people not waiting in the line.

Like, we've seen things where sanctuary cities like California and Illinois, it's kind of like, get to the country, like, kick the can. If you get to base though, you're going to be fine. You also have Tim Walz signed into legislation in Minnesota that allowed undocumented immigrants to receive free in-state tuition.

All these are lovely in spirit, but there are people that can't pay for food for their own families. In New York, they were giving the $500 meal cards. And obviously we want to help someone for the humane interests, but there's a lifeboat here. And I think the rage about the border was also people here that are maybe insecure, homeless at times, making ends meet, and they don't have any of -- they can't send their kid to college. That's the outrage of what I saw the voters say.

[Crosstalk]

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Perhaps the problem then the voters should have said, ‘why didn't we pass the legislation that they had put together?’ Because it was both sides saying, here's what we have. The Border Patrol agents were saying, this is a good deal for us, and it was stopped – I'm going to repeat that. It was stopped by the man who's just been elected president. He stopped that.

So, if you want to talk about the problems at the border, when people come to you with solutions, once you turn them into a politics of solutions, and it's an issue.

[Crosstalk]

ANA NAVARRO: I saw the statistic during the elections and I think it was in the New York Times that said, when Trump said things, people didn't think it applied to them. So, in the last few days, I got a call from a couple of people, friends of mine, people very close to me in Miami, big Trumpers who are worried now about what's going to happen to their undocumented nannies that help them raise their children.

So, I told them that I suggested they learn how to clean their kids' ass.

[Laughter]

[Applause]

People who think that what Trump was saying, that the racial slurs, that the threats on immigration, the Department of Education, all those things that Trump was saying, RFK – was just rhetoric, hyperbole. They’re about to find out.

[Crosstalk]

HAINES: They changed this asylum rule too though where there are real people that need asylum in this country, and they ballooned that asylum law which meant people were cutting the line and those that were vulnerable, it's been diluted, the pool of people. There should be able to be a real conversation about the problems with immigration.

GOLDBERG: There are problems. Go ahead.

SUNNY HOSTIN: Can I make a point? Because I think that there is this sort of feeling in America that immigrants or undocumented immigrants are taking their jobs. There's this feeling like you mentioned, that, you know, there are American citizens suffering because other, I guess, funds are being given to undocumented immigrants.

But the fact of the matter is undocumented immigrants paid approximately $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. And so, that is very significant because they pay into things like social security, they pay into things like Medicaid, but they don't get the benefits.

So, the notion somehow that they're taking away from American citizens, they're really giving to this country because they want to be here.

HAINES: It doesn't mean they're taking away from people that are simultaneously suffering, the outrage of people that are struggling to put food on the table aren’t saying – they're just saying, ‘why aren't we getting some help over here?’

HOSTIN: I don't think they know that immigrants are paying these taxes.

(…)