Fox News host Shannon Bream on Sunday got into a spat with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about illegal immigrants committing crimes in the United States.
The Democratic Party, Talking points He called on lawmakers, and possibly others, to downplay the role of Vice President Kamala Harris, a presumed 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, as border chief in the Biden administration's ongoing migration crisis.
While discussing Harris' role as border secretary on “Fox News Sunday,” Buttigieg brought up her comments at the Republican National Convention against immigrant crime, to which Bream responded that victims of crimes committed by illegal immigrants “would still be alive” if these people were not in the country illegally.
“We saw something really important happen at the Republican National Convention in the debate about the border and immigration, which is that everybody knows immigration is a problem. So they're trying to paint a narrative that people who live far away from the border and immigration hasn't personally affected them should think that immigration causes crime. That's the real message: immigration leads to crime,” Buttigieg said.
“Well, we now have governors and mayors from blue states who say every state is a border state. That's a Democrat,” Bream countered when Buttigieg tried to interject.
“Yes, they say that now, but the wrong message from the Republican National Committee was that this will lead to more crime,” Buttigieg said.
As Buttigieg continued, Bream attempted to address the “cleanup” of “high-profile” cases, saying that if criminals had not entered the country illegally, “people would still be alive.” (RELATED: 'Have you ever seen the man laugh?': CNN host questions Democratic governor who calls Donald Trump a 'wacko')
“Of course. Of course there are individual cases, but this — this is my point, right?” Buttigieg interrupted Breem, leaning in. “They're trying to get people to believe that crime is going down under Joe Biden and crime is going up under Donald Trump.”
“I don't know how often the network will cover it,” he continued, “so if you're watching this at home, I urge you to look at the data.”
“We welcome that,” Bream replied.
Since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, roughly 1.9 million illegal immigrants have been recorded fleeing into the U.S. interior.
Several women, including 12-year-old Jocelyn Nangaray, 37-year-old Rachel Morin, a mother of five, and 22-year-old Laken Riley, a nursing student from Georgia, have been victims of violent crimes and sexual assaults perpetrated by undocumented immigrants.
