Giddy conservative's claim debunked to his face on CNN: 'They conflate everything'

A conservative commentator yelped with delight over the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the federal government's policy of turning back asylum seekers before they can reach the border, and a fellow CNN panelist calmly dismantled his argument.

The justices ruled 6-3 that a policy adopted in response to a surge of Haitian immigrants did not violate a federal law permitting noncitizens to apply for asylum upon arrival in the U.S., and the majority and dissenting opinions addressed the racial animus in the policy – but from completely different vantage points.

"Look, this administration has said suchheinous things about Haitians, in particular, thatthere's obviously racial animus in the way theymade this decision about [temporary protected status] for their status, and it was interesting," said "CNN This Morning" host Audie Cornish. "You had Elena Kaganwriting, 'the statements fairly shout in their racial undertones and overtones alikethat race entered into the president's resolve toremove Haitians from this country.' I'm not sure ifwe have some clips of that, we might, but, needlessto say, we have been hearing over the years,especially during campaign time, when [Vice President JD] Vanceaccused Haitians of all manner of things, and that, the Court rejected that."

The Daily Signal's Rob Bluey could hardly contain his glee over the ruling.

"Well, I'm glad you brought up the campaign because,I think, going back to this conversation just morebroadly, on immigration, Donald Trump promised tocarry out the largest mass deportation in ourcountry's history," he said. "The fact of the matter is, ifyou look at the first year of the Trumpadministration, they did not hit the mark on thePresident's own promise, and now the deportation coalition is saying that they need todeport up to a million legal immigrants this year."

Cornish challenged him to explain more.

"Are you bringing this up because you're saying thiswas a win they needed?" Cornish said.

"Yes!" he yelped. "I'm saying that Donald Trump is, if that'sthe promise that he was going to deliver on, andthat was a central theme of his 2024 campaign.These victories at the Supreme Court certainly puthim on the pathway to getting back on track whenit comes to carrying out that. Now we may disagreeon whether or not that's the policy the UnitedStates should carry out. I just happen to say,as a conservative and as somebody who [is happy] with the ruling – absolutely. I think that these rogue judges wereout of step, absolutely I do."

New York Times podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro had been looking on with mute horror as Bluey gushed over the ruling, and she picked apart his argument when he finished.

"Well, the first thing is these were not illegalimmigrants," she said. "These were people who were here andwere given legal status. They did all the thingsthat they needed to do. Specifically, they gotvetted, they have jobs – they are nurses, they aredoctors, they are journalists."

"The problem that I have alwayswith this argument is made by conservatives isthat they conflate everything, right?" Garcia-Navarro added. "It's likeillegal immigrants, TPS holders, it's basicallyanyone who's brown who has been allowed in thiscountry, we have seen under this administration – basically refugees.The entire refugee program being suspended andbeing now handed over to white South Africans.What is this about, if not about racial animus? And I think what Elena Kagan was pointing to wasthe president's very own statements. 'They'reeating the dogs, they're eating the cats,' talkingabout Haitians who were working, and that wascompletely fabricated."

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