Trevor Noah Slams DHS Sec Nielsen For Saying ‘We’re a Country of Compassion’: ‘That’s Some Bullsh*t’

Trevor Noah had a lot to say about the Trump administration’s recent “zero tolerance” immigration policy that is separating illegal immigrant families at the southern border.

Noah began by saying it’s a “scary time to be an immigrant in America” and that the Trump administration is “inching closer to their goal of being the Norway of the West.”

He showed examples of the heavy blowback that the new policy has been receiving, including this tweet from Pope Francis.

Children must be able to play, study and grow in a peaceful environment. Woe to anyone who stifles their joyful impulse to hope!

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) June 12, 2018

“Damn, if even the Catholic Church is judging you for how you treat children, you done f**ked up,” Noah reacted.

The Daily Show host took some shots at Fox & Friends for saying that children aren’t being kept in “cages” but rather a “security pen” that are essentially “walls out of chain link fences.”

“Wow, I never evert thought I would hear a positive spin on detaining children,” Noah said. “Look man, we’re not idiots. A cage is a cage.”

Noah then accused the federal government of “effectively stealing kids from their parents” and took aim at Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen for saying that we’re a country of “compassion” and “heart.”

“Okay, no I’m sorry, but that’s some bullsh*t, right?” Noah responded. “We’re a ‘country of compassion, a country of heart,’ you can’t do a fatality on someone and then call it friendship. That’s not how it works. Because this administration did create this policy. It’s pretty ballsy to blame Congress for it when three people from your administration already said it was a Trump team idea. It’s BS.”

Watch the clip above, via Comedy Central.

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