The number of Iranian nationals arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been steadily climbing since President Trump’s strike on Iranian nuclear sites — but former immigration Judge Andrew Arthur warns it’s not going to die down anytime soon.

A press release from the Department of Homeland Security confirmations that “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 11 Iranian nationals illegally in the United States over the weekend.”

“ICE also arrested a U.S. citizen who threatened to kill ICE law enforcement while harboring an illegal alien from Iran. The weekend arrests reflect the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) commitment to keeping known and suspected terrorists out of American communities,” the press release continued.

“It’s important to note the fact that under the Biden administration between February 2021 and November 2024, which is the last report, we have 1,750 different Iranians were apprehended entering the United States illegally. There were more than 7,000 who were stopped at the ports of entry,” Arthur tells BlazeTV host Jill Savage and Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford.

“Those apprehensions represent a 20-fold increase over the seven-year-period prior to President Biden taking office. So we saw a huge number of Iranians come to the United States,” he continues, “but here’s the much more important danger.”

“At the same time that the Biden administration was releasing millions of aliens apprehended into the United States, 1.9 million others snuck by Border Patrol agents,” he explains, noting that Biden’s lax border policy made it “very easy for the Iranian government to sneak hundreds, thousands, of other assets into this country while the Biden administration was asleep at the switch.”

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The Trump administration admitted its plan for accused gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia at an online hearing to decide his fate.

On Thursday, Justice Department attorney Jonathan Guynn said that the administration was still going to deport Garcia, but to a “third country” that is not El Salvador.

‘If this Court does not act swiftly, then the Government is likely to whisk Abrego Garcia away.’

Garcia had been deported to the infamous prison for terrorists in El Salvador by the administration, but an order from the Supreme Court precipitated his return. The government then had him indicted on smuggling charges and vowed that he would not be set free on U.S. streets.

Guynn told U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in a conference call with Garcia’s attorneys that the government had “no imminent plans” to deport the man and would comply with all court orders.

Garcia’s attorneys are requesting that Xinis order the government to transport him to Maryland after his release from a jail in Tennessee. The request is intended to prevent the government from deporting him immediately upon release.

“We have concerns that the government may try to remove Mr. Abrego Garcia quickly over the weekend, something like that,” said lawyer Jonathan Cooper.

“We do plan to comply with the orders we’ve received from this court and other courts,” said Guynn. “But there’s no timeline for these specific proceedings.”

Xinis said she could not rule on the request before considering the administration’s motions to dismiss the case, so she scheduled a hearing for July 7.

RELATED: Judge orders release of Kilmar Garcia — but DHS vows that ‘he will never go free on American soil’

A separate judge in Nashville, Tennessee, ruled that Garcia should be released while awaiting trial, after finding that the government had not presented enough evidence to rule him a flight risk or a threat to the community.

“If this Court does not act swiftly, then the Government is likely to whisk Abrego Garcia away to some place far from Maryland,” his attorneys wrote to Xinis.

Garcia has denied the allegations made by the government that he is a member of the heinous MS-13 gang.

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The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Minnesota and the state’s Democrat Gov. Tim Walz over a program meant to provide financial aid to illegal aliens seeking to pursue higher education.

The DOJ was able to halt a plan to help illegal aliens study in Texas with a threat of a lawsuit, and they have also followed through with a similar lawsuit in Kentucky.

‘We look forward to taking this fight to Minnesota in order to protect the rights of American citizens first.’

“No state can be allowed to treat Americans like second-class citizens in their own country by offering financial benefits to illegal aliens,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement about the Minnesota lawsuit.

“The Department of Justice just won on this exact issue in Texas, and we look forward to taking this fight to Minnesota in order to protect the rights of American citizens first,” she added.

Illegal aliens in Minnesota can qualify for in-state tuition rates and state financial aid as a result of the Minnesota Dream Act, which was passed in 2013 under a different Democrat governor, according to Politico.

The lawsuit alleges that the state is discriminating against U.S. citizens.

“The magnitude of this discrimination against U.S. citizens is substantial,” reads a statement from the DOJ. “The cost of tuition for resident students is significantly lower than for U.S. citizens that are not in-state residents.”

The lawsuit also names the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison as defendants.

RELATED: DHS releases details about ‘barbaric, dangerous’ illegal aliens on Sudan deportation flight after federal judge ruling

President Donald Trump issued an executive order in April directing federal officials to identify “laws, regulations, policies, and practices” that favor illegal aliens over citizens and end them.

Walz was the vice presidential candidate on the Democrat’s failed presidential ticket in the 2024 election. He has since said that the country was not ready for his positive message.

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned earlier this year that vaccinating poultry against highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5) viruses might transform farms into incubators for mutant viruses — viruses that could potentially leap to humans.

“All of my agencies have advised against the vaccination of birds,” Kennedy told Fox News’ Sean Hannity, “because if you vaccinate with a leaky vaccine — in other words, a vaccine that does not provide sterilizing immunity, that does not absolutely protect against the disease — you turn those flocks into mutation factories.”

“They’re teaching the organism how to mutate,” continued Kennedy. “And it’s much more likely to jump to animals if you do that.”

Despite Kennedy’s concern — which is apparently shared by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration — the U.S. Department of Agriculture is looking seriously at mass vaccinations for American poultry.

A USDA spokesperson told Blaze News that the USDA “is exploring the viability of vaccinating poultry for HPAI” but noted that the “use of any vaccine has not been authorized at this time.”

This vaccine exploration appears to have taken on greater energy in February when egg prices were reaching record highs.

After flying south of $3 between 1994 and 2022, the price for a dozen eggs began to rise dramatically during the second half of the Biden era, then even higher earlier this year, reaching an all-time average high of $6.22 in March.

RELATED: The ‘cage-free’ myth: Why everything you think you know about ethical eggs is wrong

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Although there were multiple factors at play — including the shift in various states to cage-free hens and record consumer demand — the price spikes were largely driven by the mass exterminations of commercial and backyard bird populations ordered by the USDA in response to HPAI viruses.

Blaze News previously noted that between Feb. 8, 2022 — when the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service first confirmed bird flu belonging to the clade 2.3.4.4b in an American commercial flock — and March 2025, the USDA directed the extermination of over 166.41 million birds. Fewer egg-laying birds naturally means diminished supply and higher prices.

‘Vaccination in any poultry sector — egg layers, turkeys, broilers, or ducks — will jeopardize the entire export market for all U.S. poultry products.’

In a Feb. 26 op-ed, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins outlined “five steps to tackle avian flu and bring down costs for American families.”

In addition to dedicating up to $500 million to help American poultry producers implement “gold-standard” biosecurity measures, increasing financial relief to farms whose flocks are affected by avian flu, removing “unnecessary regulatory burdens on egg producers where possible,” and considering temporary import options, Rollins said her agency would “provide up to $100 million in research and development of vaccines and therapeutics, to improve their efficacy and efficiency.”

Although egg prices have returned to relatively normal levels, a USDA spokesperson told Blaze News that the agency continues “to evaluate the potential use of vaccines.”

“Before making a determination, USDA, in consultation with federal partners, will solicit feedback from state officials, veterinarians, farmers, the public health system, and the American public,” said the spokesperson. “USDA is working with federal and state officials and industry stakeholders to develop a potential plan for vaccine use in the United States.”

Reuters indicated that industry members anticipate that the agency will complete its plan in July.

RELATED: Cleaning up Biden’s bird flu mess falls to Trump

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There is some controversy over the potential mass vaccination of poultry on the business side of the equation.

Dr. John Clifford, a former USDA chief veterinary officer who advises the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council, told Reuters that chicken meat producers would be dealt a crushing blow if importers stopped importing U.S. poultry over concerns that vaccines were masking the presence of HPAI in flocks.

Some industry groups are, however, warming up to the idea.

Although the National Chicken Council previously suggested that “vaccination in any poultry sector — egg layers, turkeys, broilers, or ducks — will jeopardize the entire export market for all U.S. poultry products,” they have since suggested they are on board with the program if exports go unaffected.

The United Egg Producers are apparently even more gung-ho, having helped hatch a plan suggesting an initial vaccination for baby chicks, a subsequent booster shot, then routine testing.

Nicolas Hulscher, an epidemiologist and administrator at the McCullough Foundation, has suggested mass poultry vaccinations are unwise, telling Blaze News that Kennedy’s “worries about mass animal H5N1 bird flu vaccination are fully grounded in robust science.”

‘Biosecurity remains the best and most prudent approach to mitigate the impact of the disease today.’

When asked about the possibility that the USDA might nevertheless proceed with the mass vaccination agenda, Hulscher said that “the USDA is ignoring the glaring risks of creating dangerous mutant strains with their plans to mass vaccinate poultry against bird flu amidst a bird flu animal pandemic.”

Blaze News senior editor Daniel Horowitz drove home the point in a recent op-ed, noting that “leaky, waning vaccines that rely on suboptimal antibodies against rapidly mutating viruses can lead to immune tolerance and imprinting. This can cause the immune system to misfire, resulting in negative efficacy. Any short-term protection against severe disease often comes at a long-term cost as the viruses adapt and grow stronger.”

Hulscher suggested that the best way forward when tackling HPAI in domestic flocks is better biosecurity: “Installing surface-air purification systems into farms, combined with iodine-based nasal/oral prophylaxis for farm workers, is a much less risky option than mass vaccination.”

On this, it appears the USDA agrees.

The agency spokesperson told Blaze News that in the meantime, “because biosecurity remains the best and most prudent approach to mitigate the impact of the disease today, USDA also continues pursuing collaborative efforts with poultry farmers and companies on education, training, and implementation of comprehensive biosecurity measures.”

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Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is leading the effort to make sure our taxpayer dollars are actually working for the American people.

Blackburn introduced the United Nations Voting Accountability Act on Thursday, which would prohibit taxpayer funding or aid from going toward “foreign countries that oppose the position of the United States in the United Nations,” Blaze News has exclusively learned.

‘It is unacceptable for US aid recipients to use international platforms to undermine America and protect adversaries like Iran.’

Notably, America spends tens of billions of dollars on foreign aid, contributing more to the United Nations than any other country. Blackburn and many other Americans are insisting that we should not owe money to countries that oppose our interests.

“No more should American taxpayers have to question the value of foreign assistance to countries that oppose our values and interests,” Blackburn told Blaze News. “The United States must be a good steward of taxpayer dollars, ensuring every dollar that we send to foreign nations drives global stability and advances American interests.”

RELATED: Republican senator makes a stunning admission: ‘I can’t be somebody that I’m not’

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“The United Nations Voting Accountability Act would ensure that taxpayers are not forced to fund countries that undermine and vote against the U.S. in the United Nations,” Blackburn added.

The bill does allow the secretary of state, in this case Marco Rubio, to exempt countries if they make a “fundamental change” to the leadership and policies to the extent that they no longer oppose the position of the United States in the U.N.

RELATED: DOD reveals stunning new details following Trump’s attack on Iran

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Following American airstrikes in Iran, adversarial countries like Russia, China, and Pakistan began circulating a resolution in the U.N. calling for a ceasefire, which “ignores Iran’s support for terrorism” and “shields the Iranian regime from accountability,” according to a press release from Blackburn’s office obtained by Blaze News.

“While the resolution does not name the U.S. or Israel, its intent is obvious,” the press release reads. “It is unacceptable for U.S. aid recipients to use international platforms to undermine America and protect adversaries like Iran.”

This bill is also being sponsored in the House by Republican Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio, who introduced the legislation in February.

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Former New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman argued that racism was the cause for higher chronic disease among black Americans, and many on social media reacted with mockery and ridicule.

Bowman, who was voted out of the U.S. House in 2024, angrily argued that blacks in America were having health problems because of stress from having been called the N-word by bigots. He made the comments while a guest on a panel on CNN.

‘Can I blame my overweightness on hearing that I have white privilege?’

The subject arose after Republican Marc Short argued that politicians on the left and right were “performative artists” but that much of the political violence came from the left. Bowman disagreed and countered with numerous examples of political violence from the right.

“This is America! And the problem is, we are not dealing with America‘s original sin and its disease of hate and racism towards black and brown people, and sexism towards women and anti-LGBTQ sentiment. We are not dealing with that!” Bowman added.

“You can’t be calm about this! I’m a black man in America! The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the N-word directly or indirectly every day,” he said.

He went on to blame Republicans for not listening to claims about racism.

“If your colleagues would listen and try to learn and engage and grow and stop being so hateful, we could have a better country. But unfortunately, we’re still here,” he added.

Video of the debate went viral, with millions of views on social media, but many online did not find his argument persuasive.

“One might laugh but Mr. Bowman is repeating a standard argument which has long been run by the communist racialists,” responded Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch.

“Can I blame my overweightness on hearing that I have white privilege?” asked one user.

“That’s just not how health or science works, man. There are real causes for those issues; blaming racism isn’t serious,” said another detractor.

“I was called ‘cracker’ on the subway once — was so overcome with stress, I contracted dengue fever,” joked another user.

RELATED: Leftist US Reps. AOC, Jamaal Bowman get ridiculed for imitating angry rappers on Bronx rally stage ahead of primary election

“So rappers are causing cancer & obesity? That’s weird,” read one response.

Bowman was a representative for a district in New York and was mercilessly mocked in 2023 when surveillance video captured him pulling a fire alarm in the U.S. Capitol building. He claimed he did so accidentally because he was rushing to get to a vote in Congress.

Bowman later agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and pay a $1,000 fine for pulling the alarm.

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An investigation by the Oversight Project linked visitors of left-wing activist group headquarters to the Chinese government and Iran.

The Oversight Project is a right-wing advocacy group that has contributed to lawsuits against former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, among others.

In data dump on X, the organization placed visitors of two activist groups in San Francisco to multiple locations in Iran and a Chinese consulate stateside.

‘The only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society.’

The Oversight Project sifted through ad data from devices belonging to visitors of the headquarters of two groups: the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, aka ANSWER.

Data from visitors of the San Francisco headquarters, which the Oversight Project alleged hosts both groups, included one device that visited the activists’ location twice in a year and a half — while having also visited Iran, with a whopping 213 data points across the country.

The right-wing group said the data “strongly supports that the device was in Iran” and not faking its location, which could be accomplished through the use of a VPN, for example.

The Oversight Project also found connecting data from the left-wing headquarters to the nearby Chinese consulate.

RELATED: Pete Hegseth obliterates media over leaked assessment of US strike on Iran

“Another device had data points at the ANSWER/PSL location and at a building next door” and “also had 58 data points in the San Francisco consulate of the People’s Republic of China,” the Oversight Project wrote on X.

The Oversight Project described the activist groups as “central to street resistance,” while claiming they are “allegedly funded by a CCP propagandist.”

On their About page, the Party for Socialism and Liberation says it believes “the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society.”

The group also includes guidance for those who are facing deportation at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, part of a campaign called “Don’t Open for ICE.”

“One of the most important things to remember is to refuse to open the door unless ICE has a signed warrant from a judge,” the organization says.

At the same time, ANSWER boasts a near 25-year history of organizing protests and says it fights against “racist and religious profiling,” advocates “immigrant and workers’ rights,” and supports “economic and social justice for all.”

RELATED: China’s greatest export isn’t steel — it’s industrial theft

The Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in San Francisco, California, on July 23, 2020. Photo by PHILIP PACHECO/AFP via Getty Images

The Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China, located at 1450 Laguna Street in San Francisco, is about a 20-minute drive from ANSWER’s publicly listed headquarters in the city at 2969 Mission Street. It is not clear, however, that ANSWER and PSL officially operate out of the same location, as the Oversight Project claimed.

Blaze News reached out to both ANSWER and the PSL and asked if they have received any monetary support from Iranian or Chinese entities, or if they have had contact with officials from other countries in any capacity. Neither answered.

This article will be updated with any applicable replies.

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A radical Democrat congresswoman who staunchly advocates for so-called “abortion rights” may have accidentally undermined them when she attempted to run interference for a recently deported immigrant accused of heinous crimes.

There seems to be no form of abortion Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) doesn’t like. She has called abortion “health care” and a “human right,” vowed “to protect and expand” so-called “reproductive care” under Trump’s second term, and even admitted that she has had at least one abortion herself.

‘Interesting that it’s a baby when you want to dunk on ICE but it’s just a clump of cells when you want to kill it.’

Because of her long-standing history of defending abortion, Jayapal surprised many when she lamented the recent loss of another woman’s unborn “baby.”

“A pregnant woman lost her baby after ICE refused to give her prenatal care,” Jayapal wrote on social media on Tuesday, perhaps not realizing that babies are persons who cannot legally be killed.

“If true, this is very sad. Tragic even. And the fact that it’s sad is clear evidence that your position on abortion is both inhumane and barbaric,” Not the Bee shot back in the comments.

“Interesting that it’s a baby when you want to dunk on ICE but it’s just a clump of cells when you want to kill it,” added Kangmin Lee, a popular Christian influencer with nearly 160,000 followers.

“Baby. Thanks for admitting it,” quipped LifeNews.com.

RELATED: Rep. Pramila Jayapal slammed with backlash after politicizing devastating wildfires in California

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In her social media post, Jayapal also shared an article from the Nashville Banner about the apparent stillborn child and his mother, Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, a native of Guatemala who reportedly stole into the U.S. in 2018.

In the article, Monterroso-Lemus painted such a harrowing tale of her experiences in ICE custody that independent journalist Andy Ngo characterized her allegations as “cinematic.”

Monterroso-Lemus claimed she was:

forced to sleep on the floor in an Alabama facility;offered food infested with cockroaches;repeatedly denied medical care after she expressed concerns about her unborn child and instead had only her blood pressure and urine sample tested; andignored for three days after the child died in her womb.

“I had him inside here for three days, in this Louisiana facility, my baby dead in my stomach, inside my stomach for three days, dead,” she said, according to the Banner.

“I told them to just send me back to Guatemala because I was pregnant and wasn’t getting the medical attention I needed,” she added.

“There’s so much pressure in jail. I started suffering from insomnia, from anxiety. Then I felt like I was having a stroke, and they still didn’t give me a medical exam,” she continued.

Monterroso-Lemus also claimed that overly vigilant guards kept her “shackled” to a bed while she delivered the stillborn baby boy. “When I was delivering my baby, they didn’t even give me a little privacy,” she said. “One time, they even shackled my feet because they thought I might escape. Like I was some kind of criminal. I told them, ‘What you’re doing to me isn’t right.'”

According to the report, Monterroso-Lemus gave birth at Ochsner LSU Health – Monroe Medical Center in Louisiana on April 29. She was then deported back to Guatemala on May 9.

“This is absolutely disgusting and we should all be outraged,” Jayapal fumed in her social media post on Tuesday.

Monterroso-Lemus ‘has been arrested multiple times for child abuse and is wanted on an active warrant for homicide.’

Because Jayapal’s tweet drew such attention to Monterroso-Lemus’ case, the Department of Homeland Security issued a press release directly disputing most, if not all, of Monterroso-Lemus’ claims.

According to DHS, Monterroso-Lemus:

“had a bed in her cell” and was never forced to sleep on the floor;received “appropriate dietician cleared menus” every day in keeping with the standards of all ICE detainees in New Orleans;received extensive prenatal and other medical care, including a fetal doppler ultrasound, an “OB-GYN visit, dental care, and medication.” She was also taken to a hospital and seen by “multiple nurses”; andwas given “immediate medical assistance” on April 29, when she reported distress and was taken to the hospital.

DHS also insists it has no record that Monterroso-Lemus ever filed a grievance about alleged “mistreatment and mocking from guards.”

In a statement to Blaze News, Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin claimed: “This reporting is absolutely FALSE. Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus had FULL medical, prenatal care. We have documentation to show it.”

RELATED: Rep. Pramila Jayapal brazenly admits her hypocrisy on Senate rules after Trump election ‘trifecta’

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What’s more, Monterroso-Lemus has been accused of mistreating others — severely.

In her statement to Blaze News, McLaughlin claimed that “Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, 37, is a citizen of Guatemala who has been arrested multiple times for child abuse and is wanted on an active warrant for homicide.”

The DHS press release clarified that Monterroso-Lemus was “arrested twice for child abuse/neglect with the Loudon County Sheriff’s Office” and that she is wanted for homicide in Guatemala.

“FACT CHECK: ICE Provided Full Medical Care to Guatemalan Illegal Alien with History of Child Abuse and Wanted for Homicide,” the press release headline reiterated.

Monterroso-Lemus has six other children.

The father of her stillborn child, Gary Bivens, still appears to stand by his fiancée. He has pledged to relocate to Guatemala and initiated a GoFundMe account to help with “funds for medical treatment and transportation expenses.”

“It’s unbelievable. It’s disgusting. I’m beside myself, I really am,” he said, according to the Banner. “I’m ashamed to even call myself an American citizen. With what is going on in these facilities? … It’s costing people’s lives. It’s breaking families apart. It’s so inhumane. … It’s un-American.”

“I’ll sell the house and everything I got, and I’m coming down to Guatemala,” Bivens added. “That’s my intention … because I don’t even want to be here anymore. … I lost all respect for every bit and piece of this country.”

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The Trump administration has allowed 54 South African immigrants into America after claims that white farmers are allegedly being killed in the country — and one man is very unhappy about it.

“The New York Times is saying that President Trump is saying to white Afrikaners from South Africa, ‘I’ll give you refugee status.’ So we’re bringing in white Afrikaners who we don’t know if they’re criminals, we don’t know what they went through in the legal process in South Africa,” Al Sharpton said on MSNBC.

“But people right here in Newark, we’re going to assume they’re all criminal,” he continued. “It is as blatantly double standard as one can get.”

“I don’t understand how 54 people have caused this big of a dustup when we’ve watched hundreds of thousands walk over our border for four straight years. This whole situation, it’s baffling to me. But it’s not baffling in terms of there’s so much stirred up racial division, and anything that appears to benefit white Christians in any way can be spun into, ‘Well, this is racism,’” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says on “Jason Whitlock Harmony.”

“They are looking, as you said, solely based on race,” T.J. Moe agrees. “We have rigged up this society to believe that white people cannot possibly be victims, so if we allow these white victims into America, now that destroys our narrative.”

“I think that’s what they’re looking at here. They can’t possibly demonstrate any sort of empathy. These are white people. Doesn’t matter that they’re only 7% of the population over there and that they’re being murdered and that President Trump calls it a genocide, none of that matters. It only matters that they’re white,” he continues.

“These South African farmers,” he adds, “there’s only 7%, but I think they own something like 75%, 80% of all the farmland in South Africa and produce like 95% of the goods. They’re incredibly productive people, and so these are refugees that you would want here.”

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Former MSNBC host Joy Reid defended Iran seeking nuclear weapons in a debate on CNN that devolved into a shouting match.

Iran struck U.S. bases in the Middle East with what was described as a “symbolic” and limited barrage meant to save face after the U.S. dropped a bunker-buster bomb in a daring mission that devastated Iran’s nuclear enrichment capabilities.

‘The reason they’re trying to get nukes … is because an expansionist power in their region keeps threatening them.’

On Tuesday, Reid defended Iran’s actions and went so far as to say Israel was at fault for the terrorist-supporting state’s attempts to obtain nuclear weapons. She made the comments while on a CNN panel.

“The bottom line here is, the way that we know that Iran does not have nuclear weapons is that if they had nuclear weapons, Israel would not attack them,” said Reid.

“The reason they’re trying to get nukes, and probably Saudi Arabia is trying to get them, is because an expansionist power in their region keeps threatening them and actually bomb them,” she added.

The panel erupted into a loud yelling match.

“And actually bomb them! I don’t think it’s OK that Israel has nukes, either!” Reid added. “And so the bottom line is Israel doesn’t even subject its nuclear weapons to the IAEA. And so my question is should anyone in the region have nukes?”

“But Joy, this is not just about nukes,” replied CNN host Abby Phillip. “It’s also about Iran being a state sponsor of terrorism and chaos and violence and death around the world. There’s that, too!”

RELATED: Rubio warns Iran against ‘suicidal’ closing of Strait of Hormuz; Vance says retaliation will be met with ‘overwhelming force’

Criminal defense attorney Arthur Aidala then yelled at Reid that the issue also involved the U.S. helping a democratic ally in Israel.

“Their democracy is not like the United States of America,” Reid objected. “I’m sorry. In the United States, LGBTQ people can’t even serve in the military under the president you prefer.”

Aidala and Reid then entered into their own shouting match.

“The United States is not exactly a beacon of human rights for gay people!” Reid scoffed.

Reid’s low-rated show on MSNBC was canceled in February after the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Reid posted a tearful goodbye where she lamented the end of her show. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow assailed her own network for the firing and suggested it was motivated by racism.

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