MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan Show
February 19, 2023
8:39 p.m. Eastern
MEHDI HASAN: In her memoir, (Nikki) Haley even talks about her Indian mother actually supporting Trump for President in 2016 very early on -- yes, the same Trump who wanted to build a wall and made racist remarks about brown people. That's the drawbridge right there. In many ways, Nikki Haley herself is following in the footsteps of Bobby Jindal -- another son of Indian immigrants, another ex-Republican governor who had fantasies about being the GOP presidential nominee. Jindal --who changed his name to "Bobby" from
condemned immigration without assimilation as invasion, and became, in the words of the Washington Post, "the new champion" of the tough on immigrants crowd.
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Now, conservative pundits, apologists, will say, "There's nothing wrong with right-wing immigrants or the right-wing children of immigrants wanting to get tough on illegal immigration. Their parents came legally." That's a load of BS.
Number one, the idea that this is all about illegal immigration is just false. There are thousands of people trying but unable to claim asylum at our southern border, and claiming asylum is a legal right under both U.S. and international law.
. Craig Millward
