Charlamagne Tha God accepts the award for Finest Multicultural Podcast throughout the 2019 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards on the iHeartRadio Theater on Jan.18, 2019, in Burbank, Calif. Richard Shotwell, Related Press
An immigrant household makes their method to the bus transporting from St. Andrews in Edgartown, Mass., to Winery Haven and the ferry to Woods Gap, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took the playbook of a fellow Republican, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, to a brand new stage by catching officers flat-footed in Martha’s Winery, Mass., with two planeloads of Venezuelan migrants. On Friday, the migrants have been being moved voluntarily to a navy base on close by Cape Cod, Mass. Ron Schloerb, Cape Cod Occasions through AP
Comedy Central host Charlamagne Tha God mentioned it was “genius” of Republican governors to move undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities run by Democrats.
Charlamagne led a panel dialogue on his present on the transfer by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to fly immigrants to Martha’s Winery in Massachusetts final week. The rich enclave grew to become a nationwide spectacle after immigrants have been delivered to the island by aircraft, drawing consideration to frame safety points and the rise in unlawful crossings over the nation’s southern border.
The panel uniformly disagreed with Charlamagne. Political commentator Angela Rye decried the transport of immigrants to locations that have been unprepared to obtain them. However Charlamagne responded by saying that the cities and states are self-declared sanctuary jurisdictions for immigrants.
Charlamagne did say he wished DeSantis would have notified Democrat state leaders of his plans to fly in migrants “as a result of that may expose the hypocrisy of the Democrats that they don’t need immigrants both.”
Fellow panelist Malcolm Gladwell accused the Republicans of utilizing migrants like “props in some sort of political stunt,” whereas Roy Wooden Jr. complained that the scenario appeared all too just like how some cities bus out their homeless moderately than offering them with assist.
Charlamagne requested if it might not be higher for immigrants to be despatched to sanctuary cities that need them moderately than being saved within the border states the place they aren’t wished.
The panel ended the section by lamenting America’s failed immigration system. “I feel, policy-wise, the nation has failed immigrants for a really very long time. Immigration proposals don’t do sufficient,” Rye mentioned.
An immigrant household makes their method to the bus transporting from St. Andrews in Edgartown, Mass., to Winery Haven and the ferry to Woods Gap, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took the playbook of a fellow Republican, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, to a brand new stage by catching officers flat-footed in Martha’s Winery, Mass., with two planeloads of Venezuelan migrants. On Friday, the migrants have been being moved voluntarily to a navy base on close by Cape Cod, Mass.
Ron Schloerb, Cape Cod Occasions through AP