“The View” entered the ongoing debate on Wednesday over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ stunt in which he drove two planeloads of Venezuelan migrants from his state to Martha’s Vineyard to draw attention to the ongoing immigration crisis at the southern border. blew it up
While it’s been a hot-button issue this week, with voices on both sides calling the action suspicious or illegal—a Texas sheriff has opened a case against DeSantis to determine whether he sent migrants to planes. Misguided to climb in and therefore break the law — but “The View”‘s conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin indicated she thinks it’s time to move on and focus on solutions.
“I would say — full stop — what Governor DeSantis did was political theater,” she began with Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin and the rest of “The View” panel. “I come from the Republican Party that believes in compassionate conservatism, so doesn’t ‘own the liberals’ as a policy position.”
But, she said, the act’s political theater is distracting from the “very real” immigration crisis at the United States’ southern border.
“Despite what Vice President Harris said, the border is not safe,” he said. “We are on track to do 2 million interventions at the border of the people who run away. I think we just need to get ahead of DeSantis and even get him to pay attention to this stunt and talk about solutions. What needs to be done.”
So Farah Griffin offered one: “One thing I would recommend is that we have separated asylum seekers and refugees from economic migrants,” she said. “We need to give priority to those who are fleeing violence, oppression, communism. The priority I have worked with should be to help Afghan refugees resettle in America. Not to say that there is no place to help the economic migrants, but they are the people who should come first.”
“I worry that we are taking political swipes around each other,” she concluded, “and I have yet to see a real proposal from President Biden on how we are dealing with this.”
Watch the full segment — in the video above — and what Hostin, Goldberg, and others have to say about the growing case against DeSantis’ actions.
