'Wow': Legal expert flags 'two telling confessions' from Fox News host

Legal analyst and journalist Marcy Wheeler, who writes under the handle EmptyWheel, mocked Fox News host Laura Ingraham this week over a segment celebrating the end of Biden-era protections for Haitian immigrants, arguing Ingraham's framing revealed "two telling confessions."

The segment aired during Fox's coverage from Trump's Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C. In it, Ingraham promoted comments from White House adviser Stephen Miller declaring the Biden administration's Haiti policy finished.

"STEPHEN MILLER MAKES IT CLEAR: BIDEN'S HAITI POLICY IS OVER," Ingraham wrote in a post sharing the clip, quoting the assessment that the policy "was one of the most heinous things this government has ever done."

That characterization is what caught Wheeler's attention, and she reacted with mock astonishment, arguing Ingraham had inadvertently revealed more than she intended.

"WOWOW," Wheeler wrote, before laying out what she framed as two unintended admissions.

The first, according to Wheeler, was a matter of basic timeline: that Ingraham "doesn't know who was President in 2010 or 2017" — years relevant to when Haitians received Temporary Protected Status following natural disasters, under administrations that included Trump's own first term.

The second, Wheeler argued, was more pointed — that Ingraham apparently considers renewing protections for immigrants from disaster-stricken countries to be, in her framing, "one of the most heinous things this government has ever done."

"Two telling confessions," Wheeler wrote.

The jab lands on a recurring criticism of the right's messaging around Haitian TPS — that the timeline of who granted and extended those protections is more bipartisan and complicated than the clean partisan story suggests, and that casting humanitarian protections as among the government's worst acts says more about the speaker's priorities than about the policy itself.

The exchange comes amid intense scrutiny of the administration's move to end TPS for hundreds of thousands of Haitians, a decision recently cleared by the Supreme Court and condemned by critics as racially motivated.