Jesse Watters Delights Over Trump Mass Deportation Plan: ‘It’s Going To Be Hysterical’
Fox News’ Jesse Watters on Friday took delight in Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan, one of the president-elect’s major campaign promises.
“The Five” host claimed the federal government will “lose” states on the issue and predicted “massive clashes” under the plan, which Trump has pledged to be the “largest deportation effort in American history.”
“Because you’re going to have cameras out there making sure that they capture the images of ICE coming along and taking these people away and they deserve to be taken away, sometimes you have to do tough stuff,” Watters said.
“But AOC is going to be there tying herself to migrants. It’s going to be hysterical but sometimes dad has to do the tough thing. Doesn’t make it always look great but it’s the right thing to do and that’s what we expect.”
The president-elect’s plan would see military and law enforcement rounding up millions and sending them to detention camps before expelling them from the country.
Watters’ remarks arrived after the president-elect, in an interview with NBC News on Thursday, said his pledge for mass deportations was “not a question of a price tag.”
“It’s not — really, we have no choice,” he said.
“When people have been killed and murdered, when drug lords have destroyed countries, and now they’re going to go back to those countries because they’re not staying here. There is no price tag.”
In recent days, several Democratic governors have responded to Trump’s election win by gearing up for potential challenges to progressive policies.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called on lawmakers to convene for a special session in hopes that they could “Trump-proof” state laws and policies tied to climate change, immigration and reproductive rights.
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The president-elect, in a rant shared to his Truth Social platform on Friday, declared that Newsom was “trying to KILL” the “beautiful” state.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has also announced efforts to develop “comprehensive plans to address any policy and regulatory threats that may emerge” under Trump while Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said state police would “absolutely not” help Trump with his plan for mass deportations.
“Every tool in the toolbox has got to be used to protect our citizens, to protect our residents and protect our states, and certainly to hold the line on democracy and the rule of law as a basic principle,” she told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.
