'Let me finish': Trump 'Border Czar' Homan put on the spot in live MSNBC interview
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was forced to speak over border czar Tom Homan on Friday morning as he lectured the Donald Trump appointee over the treatment of immigrants.
During the interview with the official tasked with handling Trump's mass deportations, the "Morning Joe" host asked Homan if he believed his people are treating detainees "humanely" at which point the two proceeded to butt heads.
Scarborough kicked off the squabble by asking about the Trump administration's hope that immigrants will "self deport," by asking, "If they if they go to the app or they go to ICE officials are you guaranteeing that if they want to self-deport and do it the right way, as you say, that they will be treated humanely and be allowed to go back to their homeland in a humane manner?"
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"We treat all people humanely," Homan pushed back with Scarborough interjecting, "A lot of people would disagree."
"I know there's a lot of bad stories out," the Trump official plowed ahead. "I think it's fake news. But look, I've been doing this, I've been well, I've been doing this since 1984; we do things humanely. We're the most giving nation in the world, we welcome more people to this country, refugees, than any other nation in the world. This is a very giving nation, and I've been in this business since 1984, and we do everything humanely."
"Well. I think, Mr. Homan, I've always said America's fed and freed more people across the world than than any country that's ever existed. We are city like [Ronald] Reagan said, that shines brightly on the hill for all the world to see," Scarborough agreed before countering, "I think, though, people are saying some of the situations, especially with what's happened with people being pulled off the streets and sent down to a maximum security prison in El Salvador without any due process ––."
"But you know, but you know, Joe, what people look and people are," Homan interrupted.
"If you let me finish and then I'll, sir," the MSNBC hoist admonished his guest. "I'll let you finish. That strikes a lot of Americans as being un-American and that even people like myself that's been talking about the need for strong borders for 30 years."
"You know, I think a lot of conservatives, and I could read you quotes from a lot of conservatives here who say they want gang members out, they want violent members out, but there's a right way to do it, and there's a wrong way to do it," he lectured. "And a lot of people believe that what we've seen over the past three months is the wrong way to do it."
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