Fox’s Kilmeade Frets About ‘Diseases’ That Immigrants Could Bring To America

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Brian Kilmeade, co-host of “Fox and Friends,” expressed fear Monday about the “diseases” that “entire populations” of immigrants could bring to the United States.

“What about diseases? There is a reason you can’t bring a kid to school unless he is inoculated,” Kilmeade said. “Is it too much to say we just can’t have countries’ entire populations come in here without being looked at as hard-hearted? To me it’s a practical way of having a nation that everyone looks up to and wants to be a part of. That’s part of the reason why America is America. There is a process.”

Republicans have been focusing on the “caravan” of immigrants slowly trekking to the United States from Central America as a midterm boogeyman.

DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen echoed the base’s talking points this weekend, floating the option of banning these immigrants, most of whom are fleeing unbearable violence and poverty in their home countries, from seeking asylum in the United States.

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  1. Avatar for jmacaz jmacaz says:

    Kilmeade:

    expressed fear Monday about the “diseases” that “entire populations” of immigrants could bring to the United States.

    Many of us on this site have been fretting about the diseases that entire populations of Republicans HAVE already brought to the United States.

  2. Avatar for ajm ajm says:

    Purity of essence on steroids.

  3. This is completely inline with the Lou Dobbs / Chris Farrell anti-Semitism - portrayal of Jewish people as disease ridden was one of key ways they were demonized in Nazi Germany.

    And I saw on Twitter this weekend Laura Ingraham made the same comments.

  4. Yes Brian
    The disease of intolerance and hate.
    All the symptoms are showing

  5. Kilmeade won’t have to worry about immigrants bringing the diseases of hate, bigotry, ignorance or xenophobia. They are all homegrown.

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