Class is in session — and Sunny Hostin is the teacher. On this morning’s episode of The View, the former prosecutor schooled the 66% of Americans who believe it’s a crime for someone in the United States to be undocumented.
During the first Hot Topics segment of the day, the ladies slammed President Donald Trump for deploying the National Guard to stop the immigration protests going on in Los Angeles.
“I think what really matters, from sort of a long-view here, is the fact that he’s militarizing and deploying the guard for the purpose of policing Americans’ protest activity, our freedom of speech, our freedom of assembly,” Hostin said, noting that Trump’s latest move can lead to “chaos,” “Fascism,” and “civil war.”
Sara Haines, for her part, felt as though the POTUS simply wanted to “create a scene” by deploying the National Guard.
“He’s losing support in every area. Inflation, the economy, tariffs, foreign policy. His ratings are dropping,” Haines said. “There’s one catch here. Current support right now, though, is that 66% of the American public actually thinks it is crime enough to be undocumented and therefore deported.”
While many agreed with Trump’s initial promises to deport violent criminals, Haines explained that two-thirds of independents, 90% of Republicans, and slightly less than half of Democrats “think the crime is in being undocumented.”
“A massive amount of this country actually agrees with not how he’s doing it but what he’s doing,” she continued. “I think the strategy here is he’s leaning into a scene right now, creating a bigger thing because it remains the one thing he remains supported in.”
That’s when Hostin put on her legal hat, sternly telling viewers, “Let’s fix that right now because it is not illegal to be undocumented. It is not a crime to be undocumented. We need to put that information out there. It is a civil infraction, not a criminal.”
The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
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