The showdown happened on Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor, and it featured host Bill O’Reilly and Laura Ingraham.
Ingraham presented her idea that the way to deal with the immigration problem is to have mass deportation, “not by the hundreds, not by the dozens, by the thousands.” “That,” she said, “means entire families, not just the father or mother, but we keep families unified by deporting all people who are here illegally.”
O’Reilly pointed out the insanity of her statement, calling it “draconian,” and he informed the conservative talk show host that if the Republican party followed her advice, they would be doomed for years to come.
“I do believe that if you do mass deportations … that the Republican Party would become obsolete, that it would ensure Hillary Clinton’s election in 2016 because demographics don’t add up… “If you do that kind of a draconian action … mass deportation would be draconian, it would be,” O’Reilly said.
Ingham accused O’Reilly of peddling the argument of the left, and used the example of Mureitta California, where dozens of people stood in the roads blocking three buses filled with immigrant mothers and children from preceeding to processing centers.
“I think what you saw in Murietta, California, was not something that we should say should not happen in the United States,” she said. “No one wants people to spit on each other, I don’t agree with that, but the people saying ‘Oh no, you won’t do this to our community, you won’t do this to our wages, you won’t do this to our public schools,’ where do the people get satisfaction? Where do they go?”
O’Reilly maintained that if Republicans took such actions, the party would be destroyed. Then Laura chimed in with this gem.
“The Republican Party has done a good job at destroying itself by not standing up for the American worker. They’re not standing up for the regular people.”
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