Bakari Sellers Says That Crossing the Border Illegally Is ‘Not a Crime’

PHILLIP: “This is exactly why I was going to ask the — why is the administration wanting to take people from Venezuela, from anywhere in the world, and send them to places where they could face death. Even if their crime is coming to the country illegally, why — “
SELLERS: “That’s not a crime, by the way.”
PHILLIP: “Well, if if they cross the border illegally, it is a type of crime. But even if they — even if they did that, is that really something that we‘re doing in this country, sending them to a prison where the only way out is in a coffin, according to the El Salvadorians?”
BORELLI: “They had an option not to come in the first place. They had an option — they had an option to self-deport. I‘m sorry, but I‘m speaking for a lot of them.”
PHILLIP: “But what’s the answer to the question? Is the answer ‘yes?’”
BORELLI: “I‘m telling you, I’m speaking to a lot of Americans — “
PHILLIP: “That the penalty for that could be death?”