Tucker Carlson received a joking job offer from Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina during an interview on Friday.

Scott offered Carlson, co-founder of the Daily Caller and the Daily Caller News Foundation, the position of “bye-bye ambassador” during a discussion on illegal immigration and border security at a summit hosted by Blaise. Carlson and Fox News parted ways on April 24th. (Related: ‘The View’ co-host who lectured Tim Scott on racism misses show)

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After pointing out that “everyone” has a smartphone that can be used to track them, Carlson said, “I know some people are using fake social security numbers. What if I drop you off in Tijuana and bye bye?” Is it?”, causing the audience to laugh. place.

“To resolve this, I will be appointing Tucker Carlson as my ‘bye-bye ambassador,'” Scott replied, to applause from those in attendance at the event. “So me and I are going to work on this together. I’m looking forward to doing that.”

Over 1.64 million illegal immigrants encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2023 according to While based on data released by CBP following 2,378,944 encounters in 2022 and 1,734,686 in 2021, Fox News report An additional 600,000 migrants fled the CBP in fiscal 2022.

“I have to obey the law. Do people from Haiti not obey the law?” Carlson asked during an interview. “But they know that in Japan no politician would say, ‘Okay, you’re leaving,’ so they don’t put this up, so they come.”

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