Fox host defends taking immigrant children from parents because some of the kids may end up in MS-13 Written by Media Matters Staff Published 06/04/18 6:37 PM EDT From the June 4 edition of Fox News' The Five: Video file JUAN WILLIAMS (CO-HOST): The key point here is the assumption should always be that a child belongs with his mom or her mom, their parents. GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): Well, they arrived without their mom, the missing 1,500 -- WILLIAMS: I think you guys are really missing the idea that something so essential, and so much a part of family values would be violated. GUILFOYLE: No. That has nothing to do with family values. WILLIAMS: I'm just saying -- KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE (CO-HOST): It has to do with public safety. Why are the children coming over unaccompanied? Where are these caring parents? WILLIAMS: Public safety? Oh, and kids are gonna -- kids are terrorists now? GUILFOYLE: I never said that. GUTFELD: Just release them into the street, Juan. WILLIAMS: What? GUTFELD: Just release them into the streets. WILLIAMS: What are you talking about? They should be with their mother. GUTFELD: They are in a different facility -- JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): What if the mother is being prosecuted? [...] WILLIAMS: In a minute, they are all going to be members of MS-13, according to you. I find this really terrible. GUILFOYLE: I mean, well, some are. Previously: Fox regular Mark Krikorian: HHS “detention centers are not dog kennels. They've got cable from Central America” Democratic strategist calls out Fox host for saying the Democratic message is to support MS-13 Fox's Jesse Watters on immigrant children being separated from parents: “Some would say it's a more humane policy” Fox News guest says that the only problem with missing 1,500 immigrant children is that America can't deport them