On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, the MS NOW’s morning discuss program led with the information of an ICE-involved taking pictures loss of life in Maine. Frequent visitor and The New York Instances opinion author Mara Homosexual used the taking pictures dialogue to label “many” Trump officers as “white supremacists” earlier than she associated the taking pictures to the removing of Non permanent Protected Standing and “anti-democratic conduct.”
Homosexual continued the Scarborough-led dialog of the Maine taking pictures, much like final Friday when he screamed at ICE funding and “Don’t Tread on Me” license plates.
She began by saying she was not a Maine resident nor an immigrant, however she was a “proud American.” Homosexual then said, “This administration has made each single American complicit in these deaths.”
Scarborough then related again to ICE funding and associated the state of affairs again to average Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins. He remarked about Collins and different Republicans: “They’ve sat again and let this occur.”
Frequent Morning Joe visitor and New York Instances Opinion Author Mara Homosexual labeled some Trump Administration officers as “white supremacists” who “do not care” in regards to the politics after ICE-involved shootings. She continued, “They’re merciless, and that is what they need.” pic.twitter.com/h3JvExJiJE
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Homosexual labeled some officers within the Trump administration, who she referred to as hardliners, as “white supremacists.”
“However the different factor right here is the hardliners on this administration. They do not care in regards to the politics as a result of a lot of them are white supremacists and so they do not care,” she continued. ”They’re merciless, and that is what they need.
The author then related the ICE taking pictures to the removing of TPS standing of Haitian and Syrians within the US, after the Supreme Court docket dominated DHS may take away short-term statuses.
She questioned: “Why is that this administration doing one thing that’s so clearly unhealthy politics along with merciless and un-American?”
In shut of her white supremacist accusation, she implied immigration insurance policies had been a part of “all of the anti-democratic conduct from this White Home.”
CNN This Morning’s Audie Cornish additionally talked in regards to the Maine taking pictures and requested if ICE has acted in a different way or if the shootings revealed “just a little little bit of a standing working process right here.” pic.twitter.com/NVktc4O5Rb
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CNN This Morning additionally lined the taking pictures in Maine, and host Audie Cornish requested if the current shootings revealed “just a little little bit of a standing working process” of ICE.
As a substitute of true discuss on the taking pictures in Maine, Homosexual took the chance to opine about democracy and white supremacy, which was not shocking attributable to her historical past of feedback on Morning Joe, as beforehand documented by NewsBusters.
The white supremacy declare had little to no relation to the taking pictures challenge at hand, and her feedback had been extra about her personal views on immigrants, particularly these within the nation illegally.
Paired with Cornish’s allegation of ICE taking pictures as “standing working process” of ICE, the morning cable information reveals’ response to the occasions in Maine showcased the renewed build-up of immigration enforcement-dominated information protection within the lead-up to the midterms.
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MS NOW’s Morning Joe
July 14, 2026
6:10:41 AM Jap
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MARA GAY: Proper. And I simply wish to say, you already know, I do not stay in Maine. I am not an immigrant, however I am a proud American. And this administration has made each single American complicit in these deaths. That is occurring with our taxpayer {dollars} that could possibly be going to varsities, to well being care.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Due to what –
GAY: As a result of –
SCARBOROUGH: – Susan Maine and Republicans are doing.
GAY: That’s proper.
SCARBOROUGH: They’ve sat again and let this occur.
GAY: However the different factor right here is the hardliners on this administration. They do not care in regards to the politics as a result of a lot of them are white supremacists and so they do not care. They’re merciless, and that is what they need.
This is identical administration that eliminated protections for Haitians, for Syrians. On the identical time, it is permitting extra Afrikaners solely, white South Africans solely, in. So, that is all certainly one of a bit. And after we ask ourselves, why is that this administration doing one thing that’s so clearly unhealthy politics along with merciless and un-American?
I feel we have to actually look fastidiously in any respect the anti-democratic conduct from this White Home, as a result of this isn’t a preferred coverage. So why would somebody pursue a preferred coverage in a midterm yr?
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