In another embarrassing performance of Latinoface minstrelsy, CNN’s Ana Navarro went on CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip and righteously claimed that Latinos casually walk around with unprescribed tranquilizers on their person. This bizarre statement was uttered in opposition to broad deportations of illegal aliens.
Navarro really thought she was cooking when she said this:
WATCH: @ananavarro, in another epically embarrassing performance of Latinoface minstrelsy, claims that Latinos casually walk around with unprescribed Xanax. XANAX.
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) March 11, 2026
ANA NAVARRO: Just this last week in Miami, in a place that voted massively for Donald Trump, I heard a Trump… pic.twitter.com/ntxkbzd8A1
ANA NAVARRO: Just this last week in Miami, in a place that voted massively for Donald Trump, I heard a Trump supporter crying on TV because his- his common-law wife of 25 years, a Cuban, was deported. And when she went to the immigration check-in, he said to her, “Don't worry about it. They don't deport Cubans.” Guess what. Some of these Cubans are being sent to Sudan and Eswatini. If you know where that is. The woman was…
JOE BORELLI: I don’t.
NAVARRO: Okay, well it's in Africa. The woman was detained initially. Her- what was on her record is that she had been in a traffic stop 20 years ago, and she had three Xanax pills in her purse without prescription. You start deporting every Latino with- without prescriptions, with tranquilizers, there’s going to be nobody left.
BORELLI: Well, it sounds like- It sounds like she had a drug conviction. That's a different story, right?
NAVARRO: Oh- for three Xanax pills?
BORELLI: Well, I'm just saying. It sounds like that particular person is not the best case. They had a drug conviction.
NAVARRO: FOR THREE XANAX PILLS? For three Xanax pills?
BORELLI: Yeah.
NAVARRO: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ABBY PHILLIP: This is a clear turnaround.
She really said that. I watched in astonishment, over and over as I went over the transcript. Ana Navarro really did say that if you start deporting Latinos that walk around with unprescribed tranquilizers, you’ll have none left.
Alprazolam, more commonly known as Xanax, is a Schedule IV controlled substance. Possession of such substances without a valid prescription in the state of Florida is a third-degree felony, punishable by up to 5 years in state prison and/or a maximum fine of $5,000. Based on that alone, Joe Borelli was right. In all likelihood, we are probably looking at someone with a drug conviction that was in the country illegally. And it boggles the mind that this is who Navarro puts forth as an example of the noble immigrant that the Trump administration is needlessly deporting.
To be clear, I’m not shocked that Navarro actually uttered these things. As I’ve stated before, Navarro plays a character on TV: “Spicy Latina”, who offers up searing hot takes on whatever the given issue of the day is. Sometimes, these minstrelsies work out for the entities that book her. More often than not, as is the case today, they do not. To have someone with the profile of an Ana Navarro saying that the community she purports to represent walks around with unprescribed Xannies is an utter embarrassment.
