Fox & Friends’ Steve Doocy: Migrant Kids Are Being Held in a Metal ‘Security Pen,’ Not Cages
DOOCY: Some refer to these [child detention facilities] as cages. I’m from a farm community, I see the chain-link fences, it’s more like a security pen to me.
GIDLEY: It’s the law of the land… The Democrats decided to stand with people who are here illegally and unlawfully. pic.twitter.com/SWimLtFYoV
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 18, 2018
Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy suggested that the migrant children being separated from their parents due to a policy change from the Trump administration aren’t actually being held in cages, but rather “a security pen” made of “chain-link fences.”
“Some have likened these to concentration camps. Some refer to these as cages, and I can understand that point of view,” Doocy said while speaking with White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley. “I’m from a farm community, to me, I see the chain-link fences, it’s more like a security pen to me.”
Doocy also attempted to make it seem like the children were being held in comfortable quarters by pointing out their “thermal blankets” and suggesting the cages are just there to section off the warehouse:
“While some have likened it to — them to concentration camps or cages, you do see that they have those thermal blankets, you do see some fencing, but keep in mind — some have referred to them as “cages,” but, keep in mind, this is a great, big warehouse facility where they built walls out of chain link fences.”
Doocy’s comments on the detention centers received a note from CNN’s media reporter Brian Stelter:
No, these aren’t cages, @SteveDoocy says. The authorities simply “built walls out of chain-link fences.” Yes, that’s a real quote from Fox just now. pic.twitter.com/7oVQ6oE85x
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 18, 2018
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