Podcaster “Charlamagne Tha God” of The Breakfast Club, a leftist program, lauded Govs. Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for their “genius” move to blow a hole into the Democrats’ hypocrisy by transporting illegal aliens to so-called “sanctuary cities” for criminal aliens.
Mediaite reports:
On Comedy Central’s Hell of a Week, Charlamagne held a panel discussion on DeSantis sending two planes full of immigrants to >Martha’s Vineyard, a popular vacation spot. The move has generated a great deal of controversy in recent days, though as Charlamagne noted, DeSantis was “[upping] the game” after Texas began sending immigrants to sanctuary cities in order to demand political action to address the southern border.
“I personally think it’s genius,” Charlamagne said, “but I wish that governors like Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott would give Democratic governors and mayors more of a heads-up. Because then, that would expose the hypocrisy of the Democrats, which is, they don’t want immigrants here either.”
When Charlamagne asked the panel for their input, Angela Rye went on the offensive against Republicans “priding themselves” on sending immigrants to places that aren’t expecting them. Charlamagne countered by noting these are self-identified sanctuary cities, though he agreed with Rye when she continued with her point that “when you haven’t talked to these folks about what your plans are and you’re dropping [migrants off], it is a political game for them.”
Malcolm Gladwell kept the conversation going by ripping the idea of treating migrants like “props in some kind of a political stunt.” Roy Wood Jr. argued that the relocation of immigrants was comparable to cities attempting to push out homeless people.
“They deliberately hide people already,” said Wood. “So a lot of these Democrats complaining about the Republicans are running something similar within their own counties.”