“The dumbest argument ever made in the history of Fox News.”

Outkick’s Clay Travis criticized the Democratic Party’s deputy press secretary for making “the dumbest argument ever in the history of Fox News.”

Hear:

Travis’ strong criticism of Deputy Press Secretary Jose Aristimuño came during a discussion on Fox News’ “The Story” Friday about new data released this week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

This week, ICE officials penned a letter to Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales revealing that of all criminal aliens allowed into the country, “62,231 were charged with assault, 14,301 charged with burglary, 56,533 charged with drug abuse, and 13,099 charged with “Murder,” as Fox News later reported.

BREAKING: In a stunning letter to @RepTonyGonzales According to ICE, the agency reports that more than 13,000 non-citizens convicted of murder and non-citizens convicted of sexual assault are currently roaming the United States as part of ICE’s non-detainer list.

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) September 27, 2024

The discussion on “The Story” began with host Martha MacCallum confronting Aristimuño with this data.

“I’m sure you don’t want to know that some of those 13,000 who committed murder or 15,000 who committed sexual assault are in your neighborhood or anywhere near your family,” she said.

His reaction was disappointing to say the least.

“Yes, see, it’s a real problem,” he began, before going completely anti-Trump. “It’s so sad to see, and I can tell you — me as a Venezuelan-American — when I see Donald Trump insulting Venezuelan immigrants, insulting Haitian immigrants, to say they do a lot of things.”

“The majority of immigrants are good people. “Martha, the FBI says it releases reports year after year that less than 10 percent of undocumented immigrants are criminals,” he added.

It doesn’t matter, because one murder criminal is one murder criminal too many, right?

Frontline law enforcement has been warning for three and a half years that an unsecured border — no screening, catch-and-release policies — will lead to an unprecedented threat to public safety. The statistics do not take into account the over 2 million known short vacations that…

— Chris Olivarez (@LtChrisOlivarez) September 27, 2024

MacCallum, for her part, responded to Aristimuño’s anti-Trump rant by drawing attention to former President Donald Trump’s plans to deport violent criminal aliens.

Predictably, Aristimuño responded by first playing the race card and then hilariously blaming Trump for the border crisis.

“They want to deport people who look like me just because they’re Latino,” he said. “Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, the first day Joe Biden took office, he introduced an immigration bill and the Republicans blocked it. What happened to the border law a few months ago? Donald Trump called Speaker Johnson and said, ‘Kill the bill.'”

FYI: On President Joe Biden’s first day in office, he reversed virtually all of Trump’s successful border policies and introduced the US Citizenship Act of 2021, a bill that would have opened a path to citizenship for all criminal aliens living in the US.

On his first day in office, Biden introduced the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 and reversed many of Trump’s immigration policies, such as halting construction of the Mexican border wall and a travel ban, and signed an executive order reaffirming protections for DACA recipients

— CJSimar (@simar7124) September 27, 2024

As for the recent so-called “bipartisan border bill” that Republicans in Congress rejected, like the 2021 U.S. Citizenship Act, it would have done very little to actually secure the border.

Conversely, the Republicans’ HR 2 would have actually solved the border crisis by purging the workforce of criminal aliens, tightening asylum requirements, building additional border fortifications, and much more.

SOTU FACT CHECK:

Biden says, “Send me the border bill now.”

All right, Mr. President, tell Chuck Schumer to start HR 2 tonight.

It can be on your desk before the weekend! pic.twitter.com/LNE0MYZm7y

– Wesley Hunt (@WesleyHuntTX) March 8, 2024

When Travis was asked to respond to Aristimuño’s ridiculous rhetoric, he let go.

“Martha, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills,” he said. “Did Jose just say it’s Donald Trump’s fault that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden let in 13,000 known murderers and 16,000 known rapists? With all due respect, this is the stupidest argument ever made in the history of Fox News, at least while I was a guest there.”

It seems in every way that he wasn’t wrong…

This is completely unacceptable. 13,000 murderers, 16,000 rapists. We take the world’s most violent criminals and release them to live freely here.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 27, 2024

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