‘Bunch of Bullsh*t!’ CNN Panelist Goes Absolutely Berserk in Heated Birthright Citizenship Debate

CNN panelist Tara Setmayer went off during a heated exchange Wednesday over birthright citizenship, proclaiming Republican arguments about China using birth tourism to create more American citizens are a “bunch of bullsh*t!”

The panel on CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip was discussing the history of government crackdowns on birth tourism — when foreign visitors come to the United States specifically to give birth on American soil — in the context of the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this week upholding the 14th Amendment.

The decision had prompted top Trump adviser Stephen Miller to suggest the administration would “take a hard look” at banning pregnant visitors.

Setmayer was responding to an extended discussion when she spoke about the nation’s upcoming 250th anniversary:

Now, what we just saw should scare the hell out of every American. We’re about to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our country. You know, I actually did a very touristy thing today. For the first time in like 10 years, I took one of those sightseeing boats, and I passed by Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. And it brought me to tears because I’m looking at how far our country has come under these, under the leadership of people like this, and the hypocrisy of people like Stephen Miller, whose own family were Jews who came to this country to escape what happened in Germany, and the despicable things that come out of his mouth, and a lot of these other people.

And I thought about my own family that came here through Ellis Island in 1924. Could you imagine — I mean, my Italian, my Sicilian family, you know what they were called when they came here? All kinds of things. Irish families, all of those things, and but they were still able to survive and persevere in this country.

And that nativist kind of language that’s coming back, that anyone that — you know, if you’re pregnant, if you — what if you got a tan and you’re pregnant, and somebody suspects, oh, well, you must be from one of those sh*thole countries that Trump doesn’t like. What have we become? This is — and targeting women?

The misogyny here is on full display. It’s bigger than just trying to make up something about, you know, some red herring again about CCP Chinese agents. That’s a bunch of bullsh*t!

Setmayer then laced into New York Post writer Lydia Moynihan, who earlier in the discussion declared, “I don’t understand why it would be controversial to crack down on birthright tourism”:

LYDIA MOYNIHAN: That’s a legitimate concern.

TARA SETMAYER: It’s a concern about this big, when that’s not what they’re talking about.

MOYNIHAN: So, why can’t we accept the concern?

SETMAYER: If that’s such a concern, sweetheart, how come none of them said anything about CCP agents? They targeted women and minorities.

Watch above via CNN.

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