{"id":626692,"date":"2021-08-09T16:51:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=626692"},"modified":"2021-08-09T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:52:00","slug":"cnn-host-says-conservatives-are-demonizing-immigrants-as-diseased-covid-spreaders-here-are-some-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-host-says-conservatives-are-demonizing-immigrants-as-diseased-covid-spreaders-here-are-some-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Host Says Conservatives Are \u2018Demonizing Immigrants As Diseased\u2019 COVID Spreaders. Here Are Some Facts."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-host-says-conservatives-are-demonizing-immigrants-as-diseased-covid-spreaders-here-are-some-facts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=626692&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-498133654.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>CNN host Brianna Keilar on Monday blamed conservatives for \u201cdemonizing immigrants as diseased spreaders\u201d of the coronavirus, saying that there are \u201cno facts\u201d to back up the claim that illegal immigrants at the southern border spread the pathogen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a crisis on the border,\u201d Keilar acknowledged Monday on CNN\u2019s New Day.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that the last time this many migrants attempted to cross the border in one month was two decades ago. In July, according to unofficial counts, Customs and Border Protection <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/cbp-encounters-highest-monthly-number-migrants-attempting-cross\/story?id=79240996\">faced<\/a> more than 200,000 people at the southern border, and June was not much lower at 188,000 migrant encounters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo yes, President Biden has a real problem on his hands here, and his critics are capitalizing on it,\u201d Keilar said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.9787985865724\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Biden has a border crisis on his hands \u2013 no doubt. <\/p>\n<p>But conservatives are capitalizing on it by demonizing immigrants as diseased spreaders of covid \u2013 with no facts to back that up. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RollTheTape?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RollTheTape<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nmUsbdM5i9\">pic.twitter.com\/nmUsbdM5i9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brikeilarcnn\/status\/1424705970366734347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She went on to accuse former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of \u201cechoing the tone of far-right extremists when it comes to immigration reform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gingrich said on Fox Business that, \u201cwhat\u2019s hard for most of us to accept is that the anti-American left would love to drown traditional classic Americans with as many people as they can who know nothing of American history, nothing of American tradition, nothing of the rule of law. And I think that when you go and you look at the radical left, this is their ideal model, is to get rid of the rest of us because we believe in George Washington or we believe in the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is awfully close to what\u2019s known as the Great Replacement Theory, the theory that white people are being replaced by non-white people, especially immigrants,\u201d Keilar said.<\/p>\n<p>The CNN host also pointed the finger at several former Trump administration officials who called for a temporary halt to legal immigration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome conservative lawmakers and pundits, some of the same ones arguing against masking in schools to protect unvaccinated children, are saying Covid-19 is a problem but only at the border,\u201d Keilar said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that there is \u201cno evidence that they\u2019re responsible for the COVID surge in U.S. communities,\u201d referring to migrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the centuries-old trope of demonizing foreign people as diseased. The R-naught on that virus is sky-high, and these conservative voices know that,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re the vectors here infecting Americans they profess to care about with misinformation. And the rising case numbers, the lagging vaccination numbers are proof of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the&nbsp;Texas border city of McAllen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/texas-border-city-covid-positive-migrants-released-february-last-week\">said<\/a> that more than 7,000 migrants who tested positive for the coronavirus have been released by Customs and Border Protection into the city since February. More than 1,500 migrants with the virus have been allowed into McAllen over the past week, the city said.<\/p>\n<p>Single adults and some families have been sent back over the border under Title 42, which allows migrants who were recently in a country where a contagious disease was present to be expelled. However, unaccompanied children and migrant families with young children are being processed by U.S. border authorities and then into U.S. communities.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the <em>Washington Post<\/em> editorial board called on President Biden to come up with a \u201ccoherent strategy\u201d to handle the situation at the border.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN host Brianna Keilar on Monday blamed conservatives for \u201cdemonizing immigrants as diseased spreaders\u201d of the coronavirus, saying that there are \u201cno facts\u201d to back up the claim that illegal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}