Laura Ingraham Blasted For Calling Child Detention Centers ‘Summer Camps’: Would She Send Her Own Kids?
Laura Ingraham is facing harsh criticism over remarks she made in her opening monologue about the separation illegal immigrant families at the southern border.
The conditions of the facilities that migrant children are being detained come in a wide range. But the Fox News host insisted that the ones with better conditions, which include education, video games, and various activities, are “essentially summer camps.”
“Consistent with American law when the parties arrested, your children are either sent to relatives or they become wards of the state. Since more illegal immigrants are rushing the border, more kids are being separated from their parents, and temporarily housed in what are essentially summer camps or, as the San Diego Union Tribune described them today as looking basically like boarding schools.”
Folks on Twitter had a lot to say about her commentary tonight.
Laura Ingraham, like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, would happily defend genocide if the Trump administration asked them to do so. https://t.co/RV7kwPn70R
— Dave Hogg (@stareagle) June 19, 2018
I hope Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham never eat spit-free food again https://t.co/3yNDtUhoYG
— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) June 19, 2018
Now accepting applications for Laura Ingraham’s Summer Camp! Your child will learn how to properly fold a foil emergency blanket and how to decorate the inside of a cage.
Sign up now for a special lesson in basketball dribbling and mocking school shooting survivors. Act fast! pic.twitter.com/QUYrhzJBCz
— J.D. Durkin (@jiveDurkey) June 19, 2018
Laura Ingraham’s summer camp experience explains Laura Ingraham. https://t.co/JoaL3Jp3tw
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) June 19, 2018
I wonder if Laura Ingraham would send her own kids to a detention center for the summer https://t.co/hLcWrwSFZ6
— Matt O’Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) June 19, 2018
Putting this out here in advance although I doubt it will do any good: this is sickening, I am not Laura Ingraham, and do not share any of her views https://t.co/Ofvto6fnN0
— Lauren Ingram (@laureningram) June 19, 2018
Where did Laura Ingraham attend summer camp https://t.co/BH19K8mRar
— Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) June 19, 2018
Laura Ingraham just said the detention internment centers are “basically summer camps.”
Ahh yes, who else remembers singing kum ba yah, roasting marshmallows, cage living and a friendly game of let’s never see your mommy and daddy again. #boycottlaura pic.twitter.com/jhzmpseLP9
— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) June 19, 2018
It’s become really hard this week to rank the most vile & callous people alive today. Then I read this thread. Don’t know how you beat Laura Ingraham. She’s a very, very bad person. https://t.co/3DHdrqYZ2G
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) June 19, 2018
I mean, if this is what Laura Ingraham experienced as a child in summer camp, it would go a long way toward explaining how she became Laura Ingraham. https://t.co/J1tW56kAaW
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) June 19, 2018
UPDATE: Ingraham explained her remarks at the end of her show:
“Apparently there are a lot of people very upset because we referred to some of the detention facilities tonight as essentially like summer camps. The “San Diego Union Tribune” today described the facilities as essentially like what you would expect at a boarding school. So I will stick to there are some of them like boarding schools. And I suggest that a lot of the folks who are worried about that spend more time in Central America. I have. And we should make adoption easier for American couples who want to adopt these kids who are true candidates for adoption because our policies don’t allow that. So let’s put our hearts out there for the kids in the right way. Take care of them the right way. Open your hearts and your homes to them.”
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