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Casual Cruelty On Display As Fox Hosts Tire Of Deportation Concerns: 'It's Just A Gay Barber'

Huffpost · Sara Boboltz · last updated

Fox News hosts Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld accused a colleague, Jessica Tarlov, of spending too much time speaking about deportations President Donald Trump has carried out under dubious pretenses, dismissing and joking about her due process concerns on Monday.

Last month, the Trump administration flew more than 200 Venezuelan men to a notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, accusing them of being members of the violent gang Tren de Aragua. Immigration officials reportedly use a checklist to determine whether an individual is a member of the gang; among the items on the list are tattoos of crowns.

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