As more elected officials call for the U.S. to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the growing socialist movement in America “has never been more clear,” Fox News host Jeanine Pirro said on Saturday.
Democratic lawmakers like Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Elizabeth Warren on Massachusetts say ICE should be abolished after the Trump administration instituted a zero tolerance immigration policy that led to a wave of family separations at the border. Agency officials point out that the Border Patrol, not ICE, carried out that mandate. Trump signed an executive order earlier this month to end the practice of separating children from parents accused of illegally crossing the border.
Pirro called the demonstrations against ICE part of an “ongoing step-by-step agenda to change our country at its very core.”
“Right now in America there are forces dug in, organized and well funded, doing whatever is necessary to make socialism happen,” she said during the opening of her show. “The overarching message is that illegals — people who do not respect our laws — are entitled to everything that we Americans are. They are being wronged by Americans if we don’t share our wealth, our capitalistic success and our way of life with them. This, my friends, is socialism.”
Conservatives have pounced on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory over top House Democratic leader Rep. Joseph Crowley of New York as evidence of the growing shift in the party towards more liberal ideals, like Medicare for all and free college tuition. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi argued that Ocasio-Cortez’s win is not indicative of a broader shift within the Democratic Party.
Pirro’s comments came after Donald Trump Jr. said her nomination to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court resulting from the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy would be “pretty awesome.”
When asked about a potential nomination, Pirro declined to comment.
“As the president will have his imprimatur on the Supreme Court, he’ll have his ability to mold it to what he believes is important to make America great again. Neil Gorsuch has been a great appointee to the Supreme Court. And his next…appointee will be fantastic as well,” she told New York 970 AM host John Catsimatidis.
