Tiffany Cross: ICE Is ‘Kidnapping People and Transporting Them to Concentration Camps Both Domestic and Foreign’

PHILLIP: “We don‘t know if they were looking for someone. We don‘t know if they arrested anybody. But clearly, whoever they were looking for, there was no one there but kids.”
CROSS: “Well, this is — I think this is the challenge I have with with even talking about this. We are normalizing a government agency disappearing people. We are normalizing — we‘re talking about it like it‘s no big deal that they are kidnapping people and transporting them to concentration camps, both domestic and foreign. That is not — “
TORRANCE: “I think that‘s kind of insulting to — “
CROSS: “I think it‘s insulting what they‘re doing. It is not insulting to Jewish — I find it insulting that you could even fix your mouth to defend this disgusting behavior.”
TORRANCE: “Are there gas chambers at these — it‘s not a death camp.”
CROSS: “It doesn‘t matter! It‘s a concentration camp, what they‘re doing. And they are disappearing people, claiming that these are people who have committed the most harsh crimes. But according to the reporting, less than 10% of these people have committed crimes. So to do the victim Olympics and decide who had it worse, I can tell you I can participate in that too. And everybody who says, ‘Oh, this is not the America I know,’ I can guarantee you it is the America I — “
TORRANCE: “It’s not the victim Olympics, but let’s — “
CROSS:” Can I finish my point, please?”
TORRANCE: “Yes.”
CROSS: “We are — the fact that we‘re presenting this like it‘s political fodder, that a government agency is disappearing people, it is not a political point. It has nothing to do with Jewish people because, despite the fact that 20% of immigrants in this country are white, we do not see white people getting carted off to concentration camps. So if we can just focus on the most people — the people who are harmed the most by this and not make yourself or somebody else the center of attention when that‘s not who‘s being impacted by this — “
TORRANCE: “I’m not Jewish, but I‘m saying, let’s — “
CROSS: “ — or anyone else the center of attention.”
TORRANCE: “Tensions are so heightened. Using that kind of language, I think is not helpful.”
CROSS: “The tensions are heightened because this B.S. administration is kidnapping people. It has nothing to do with my language. It has to do with the actions that are being taken by this administration.”
TORRANCE: “And how many people have been disappeared that you‘ve never heard from again and we don‘t know anything about them or where they’ve gone?”
CROSS: “Thousands and thousands of people. Are you serious?”
TORRANCE: “And you never heard about them, where they‘re going?”
CROSS: “Yes!”
TORRANCE: “There’s nothing? Really?”
CROSS: “Aren‘t you a Reporter? Are you not a Reporter? Yes, thousands of people. Thousands of people.”
TORRANCE: “[inaudible] in Salvadoran prisons, who, you know — “
CROSS: “I‘m sorry, I just want to be clear, are you defending what‘s happening in this administration?”
TORRANCE: “I am not defending. I‘m saying, let‘s be accurate about what’s happening.”
CROSS: “I‘m being very accurate. And it is very disgusting, what this administration is doing. And 10, 5, 6 months, 20 years from now, I hope that you can look back at this, this very clip, and realize that you were on the wrong side of history if you‘re trying to remotely defend what‘s happening. There are fathers, mothers and young people who are being carted off to concentration camps, and less than 10% of these people have committed any sort of violent crime. They are coming up — people whose kids are in school, they are never to see their families again.”