View Hosts Clash With Meghan McCain on Immigration: ‘A Nation Without Borders Is Not a Nation!’

The View had a spirited debate about the nature of immigration in the U.S. in the context of the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy of separating children from their families at the border.

“I spoke to a couple of friends who are immigration lawyers because I’m so concerned about this stuff that we’re seeing and they said that this is just an affront to the rule of law, that this is not what this country stands for,” Sunny Hostin said. “These are people that have been practicing immigration law for 20 years, and they have never seen anything like this. This is different.”

“Whatever happened to give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses?” Whoopi Goldberg added.

“I disagree with a lot of what everyone is saying,” Meghan McCain said. “I believe in comprehensive immigration reform, I always have. I believe in the idea that we are all God’s children, I believe in what you just read on the Statue of Liberty. I also believe that we are a nation of borders and laws. A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation, according to Ronald Reagan.”

“What President [Donald] Trump ran on is what he is enforcing,” McCain continued. “You can’t be surprised that when you have the most hard line immigration candidate of my lifetime who runs on hard line immigration and the economy and ends up winning, that this is what happens.”

“It’s why voting is so important, and I think sometimes when we’re sitting in a beautiful studio in the middle of Manhattan, you forget what’s really happening on the border,” she added.

Watch above, via ABC News.