Fox host says legal Haitian immigrants in Springfield, OH are a “scam”
Gutfeld denies knowing that Trump threatened to deport Springfield Haitians to Venezuela
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Citation From the September 24, 2024, edition of Fox News' The Five
JESSICA TARLOV (HOST): There have been all of these focus groups of swing state voters who know that Donald Trump was the one who killed bipartisan border deal. That's something that is resonating in her favor. And there is a crisis moment going on for the Trump campaign around the Haitians in Springfield and that he and J.D. Vance will not stop demonizing these legal immigrants who are here, who went to Springfield to take jobs that needed to be filled.
Governor DeWine has spoken out against it. The mayor of Springfield who is also a Republican has said absolutely please stop doing this. And Trump, he was even doing it last night, they got a chance going "send them back," send them back where? These are Americans at this point.
GREG GUTFELD (HOST): We are talking about the ones flown in --
JEANINE PIRRO (HOST): How are they Americans? They're not legal. They're not citizens.
TARLOV: They are here legally, I'm sorry, they are not Americans.
GUTFELD: An interesting scam. They fly in -- they're flying in thousands of people, they are flying them in that lowers the wages, everybody gets -- and then the people there are paying -- the taxpayers are actually paying for their lives to be screwed.
TARLOV: But they are -- but everyone, including the Republicans in charge, are saying that this was a good thing. The Republicans in Florida are saying that these are great people. That's where they came from.
GUTFELD: We're not talking about the people, we're talking about the process. I have no doubt they're good people. I'm talking about the actual process.
TARLOV: So why is he saying, "I'll send them to Venezuela"?
GUTFELD: I don't know. I didn't hear him say that.
TARLOV: He did.