The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg wondered whether the current immigration system that sends immigrants coming across the border to various states without “money” might feel like “trafficking.”
“So, here’s my question,” Goldberg said on Wednesday. “So people arrive in a country and then they are put on buses and sent to other cities and towns. Isn’t that trafficking?”
Co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in that the immigrants would be put in processing first.
Goldberg continued, “So, you come across and you get here. They take you and they send you someplace else. They don’t send money. The other states don’t say, ‘Here’s some money to help you with the thing.’ It feels like trafficking … this blanket sending people wherever.”
“The Biden administration put in a policy of taking lateral flights where they relocate them to maybe more places with economic opportunities, and it underscores how bad the crisis is,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin added.
The hosts of The View spent most of Wednesday’s program defending President Joe Biden’s latest executive order on border security.
Hostin claimed that it was a “misnomer” to claim that Democrats have been weak on managing the immigration crisis at the southern border.
“The notion somehow that Democrats are so light on immigration is just actually a misnomer. It’s not true and I think he’s doing the right thing. He’s doing it, yes, because it’s a political threat. It’s five months before an election, but at least he’s doing something,” she said.
Co-host Sara Haines said that the executive order is a “Band-Aid” on border security that the president was “forced to do.”
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
“This is a Band-Aid he’s been forced to do, so some people are calling it political,” Haines said. “Something needs to be done. We’ve watched this for decades. … Now it’s exploded as people started, like, seeing the numbers come in because it did get really after Donald Trump and that Title 42 expired — the numbers have gotten too great.”
Haines blamed Congress for not doing its job on the border. Goldberg closed the segment by placing blame for “trafficking” on Republican governors, saying they pushed it by sending immigrants around the country.