Not in my backyard (NIMBY) was the attitude the liberal ladies of The View had on Friday as they spouted off on the border crisis and how swarms of illegal immigrants were harming New York City. While they largely ignored that the city brought this crisis on itself by becoming a sanctuary city, they took to demanding that all the people they invited be shipped off and “resettled elsewhere” in America because it’s “a massive country.”
Fill-in moderator Joy Behar kicked off the show with a soundbite of Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams warning that “The city we knew, we're about to lose.” “A little dramatic, isn't it? Seems a bit dramatic,” she scoffed. Faux conservative Ana Navarro joined her, saying Adams had “a flair for drama.”
Behar’s opening question to the table was, “Who should take the blame for all of this now, because there are about 100,000 migrants in New York City right now, and people keep coming?”
Staunchly racist co-host Sunny Hostin decried Adams’ warning and threw out the cliché Statue of Liberty line liberals love to use and suggested he was receiving enough support from the federal government (click “expand”):
HOSTIN: And I thought this country with its big Statue of Liberty – give me your weak and all this – is supposed to be the country that accepts people. And I'm disappointed in Mayor Adams. I understand there's a problem. He also -- lawmakers in New York also set aside more than $1.5 billion to aid the city this last legislative session.
BEHAR: How much?
HOSTIN: $1.5 billion.
BEHAR: He says he needs $12 billion.
HOSTIN: He says he needs 12. But 1.5 billion is nothing to sniff at. $140 million in federal funding from shelters has already been received.
Hostin did not offer to open up her home to any of the people she was advocating for. She previously suggested she was a person with more “humanity” than others, claiming she would have given money and food to Jordan Neely, the mentally unstable felon who threatened people on the New York subway.
At one point, Behar appeared to be attempting to gaslight their viewers by suggesting New York State and New York City were controlled by Republicans, calling them hypocrites on states’ rights. “My understanding of the Republican Party and the conservative movement is all about states' rights and states. So, all of a sudden they want help from the federal government. How come?” she asked the other faux conservative, Alyssa Farah Griffin.
It was while Navarro was recalling the Mariel Boatlift of 1980 that she warned that large migrations of people could be really harmful to cities. It was then that she and co-host Sara Haines demanded that the people in New York City be moved to other parts of the country:
NAVARRO: It puts tremendous stress on a city, on a community, on the social services. They need to be resettled elsewhere. They need to be –
HAINES: They need to be spread out. This is a massive country.
“And it's only going to get worse with global warming and climate change because people can't live in certain parts of this world,” Behar added.
But while they were clutching their pearls about the need for the illegals to be shipped out, they were joking about a deranged murderer who escaped prison in Pennsylvania and was still on the loose. “I think I would make a care package for the front porch…I'm going to leave him a note in Portuguese that says, ‘Please don't kill me!’” Navarro quipped.
What they failed to mention was that the guy was an illegal immigrant.
The View’s NIMBY response to the illegals in New York City was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from Progressive and Febreze. Their contact information is linked.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
September 8, 2023
11:03:18 a.m. Eastern(…)
MAYOR ERIC ADAMS (D-NY): The city we knew, we're about to lose.
[Cuts back to live]
JOY BEHAR: A little dramatic, isn't it? Seems a bit dramatic.
ANA NAVARRO: He's got a flair for drama.
BEHAR: Yeah. But he's been critical of the Biden administration for months. He doesn't get support from the government, he's saying. And Republicans love this, you know, because this is right up their alley for somebody like a New York sanctuary city to be complaining about a migrant problem – migrant problems.
So, let me ask you a question, is he right? Who should take the blame for all of this now, because there are about 100,000 migrants in New York City right now, and people keep coming? You have to understand these are desperate people. These are not people who are coming here because they, you know, feel like it. They're not tourists.
SUNNY HOSTIN: No, the majority are coming from Venezuela, they’re also coming from Africa, they’re coming from war-torn countries and politically torn countries, and looking for refuge.
And I thought this country with its big Statue of Liberty – give me your weak and all this – is supposed to be the country that accepts people. And I'm disappointed in Mayor Adams. I understand there's a problem. He also -- lawmakers in New York also set aside more than $1.5 billion to aid the city this last legislative session.
BEHAR: How much?
HOSTIN: $1.5 billion.
BEHAR: He says he needs $12 billion.
HOSTIN: He says he needs 12. But 1.5 billion is nothing to sniff at. $140 million in federal funding from shelters has already been received.
(…)
11:05:45 a.m. Eastern
BEHAR: Can I ask a question of Alyssa for a second? My understanding of the Republican Party and the conservative movement is all about states' rights and states. So, all of a sudden they want help from the federal government. How come?
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, I wouldn't really frame it that way. I would say this: I think that New York is finally getting a small taste of what border states have dealt with for decades. And this is a Biden problem right now because he's the president. This was an issue under Trump. This has been an issue for 25+ years. We've not had major immigration reform in this country in decades. But here's the thing, My family came through Ellis Island. We're immigrants from Lebanon. Like, I believe immigration makes this country stronger but we need legal immigration. We need a system that actually works.
BEHAR: We used to have it.
FARAH GRIFFIN: We used to have it. We do need to secure the border. And by the way, I disagree that it's building the wall. The cartels will go under it, they’ll go over it. It’s also, we’re not a country of walls. But we do need to secure it. There needs to be a process. Fentanyl comes across the border that’s killing tens of millions of Americans. This is something—
BEHAR: That's different, though. I don't think you should put those together.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I think so because you have a porous border where you can get in though many parts thousands of miles of unsecured border.
BEHAR: It sort of demonizes migrants who are coming here for a better life.
FARAH GRIFFIN: The vast majority of Fentanyl that gets in this country comes through the southern border.
(…)
11:08:35 a.m. Eastern
NAVARRO: But frankly, you know, I think we need to find -- and we've dealt with this before. I lived in Miami. I was a migrant, an immigrant in Miami in the '80s. You'll remember when we had the Mariel Boatlift. 125,000 Cubans came in a matter of six months. It puts tremendous stress on a city, on a community, on the social services. They need to be resettled elsewhere. They need to be –
SARA HAINES: They need to be spread out. This is a massive country.
BEHAR: And it's only going to get worse with global warming and climate change because people can't live in certain parts of this world.
(…)
11:15:21 a.m. Eastern
BEHAR: Now he's on the loose and the police are looking for him. So my question, for the purposes of this conversation is, what would you do if you lived in that neighborhood and you knew that guy was on the loose? Would you stay in the house? Would you go out? What would you do Sunny?
HOSTIN: He's five feet tall.
BEHAR: Yeah, he’s short.
HOSTIN: And I'm about 5'6", 5'7". I feel like maybe with my Muay Thai classes and stuff I could maybe take him.
BEHAR: No.
HOSTIN: And then I’m thinking I probably would just lock myself down. Especially if my son and my husband, who are big people, weren’t with me. And I would kind of do like a pandemic redo.
HAINES: I’d make them lockdown too because the thing is you’ve got not only someone who is violent when he wasn’t cornered, now he's trying to fight for his life. Someone that's literally in survival mode and fighting to eat and such primal needs, he's more dangerous than he's ever been.
NAVARRO: I think I would make a care package for the front porch. I'd put some Brazilian Cachaças, a few limes, things he could make a caipirinha with, a bowl of –
HOSTIN: But then what if he starts coming back for it?!
NAVARRO: I'm going to leave him a note in Portuguese that says, “Please don't kill me!”
[Laughter]
(…)
