As the Trump administration continues to deport immigrants, now whether they are in the country legally or not, Whoopi Goldberg offered a blunt warning to viewers on Monday morning’s episode of “The View”: you could be next.
In discussing the latest round of deportations by the president and ICE, the ABC talk show played a clip of Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan claiming on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” that only terrorists have been deported, and were given due process.
There has been no proof of this, which host Jonathan Karl immediately pointed out, noting that at least one of those deported has no criminal record whatsoever. Additionally, several of those sent out of the country have green cards, valid visas or have been married to U.S. citizens.
Following the clip, “The View” moderator Whoopi Goldberg was quick to remind those watching that, last year, Homan swore on Fox Business that “legal immigrants are perfectly safe” from any Trump deportation efforts.
“This is what he said. This is not what they’re doing,” she said pointedly. “And yes, this is on us. Because the next one they take could be you.”
Host Ana Navarro shared Whoopi’s outrage, saying that everything Homan said in the clip was “a complete and absolute lie.”
“I would say to Tom Homan, if in fact they are Tren de Aragua [gang members], and if in fact they are hardened criminals, then why don’t you release their names and release their crimes?!” she said. “Show us the evidence! Are we a country of rules, and laws, and evidence? Or are we a dictatorship?”
“This is all being done for the purpose of cruelty. It is all a political farce. Most of these people that they sent — or many of them — as quoting the government, do not have ties to Tren de Aragua,” she added shortly thereafter. “This is inhumane, it is disgusting, it is outrageous, it is racially profiling Venezuelans and Latinos, it is un-America.”
“The View” airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on ABC.
