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Denial of the southern border crisis hit a new and very dumb low during Wednesday’s edition of The View as ABC co-host Joy Behar openly scoffed at the fact that drugs, specifically Fentanyl from China, were coming into the United States over the border. She even suggested those facts were just “Fox News” “talking points,” and demanded that Ukrainian refugees be accused of smuggling in drugs too.
The conversation started out about the Biden administration lifting Title 42 restrictions and the predicted influx of migrants entering the country illegally. As co-host Sara Haines was dredging up the fake news about mounted Border Patrol whipping Haitians, Behar claimed reports of caravans were “lies”:
HAINES: What are they doing to make it safer though? Cause the Haitians and the bridge images and the horses coming after people, that was just last fall I thought or December.
BEHAR: The caravans. Lies.
But earlier this year, ABC had reported that there was a migrant caravan that was on its way to the U.S. from Honduras. And in a November report, they reported on a “New migrant caravan sets off from southern Mexico border[.]”
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