A CNN panel devolved Tuesday night as panelists sparred over what rights illegal immigrants are afforded.
The panel on CNN's "NewsNight" kicked off its discussion by hashing out Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' stern rebuke of MAGA calls to impeach judges who have blocked President Donald Trump's agenda.
Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton defended the president, who he said "absolutely has the authority to ship these criminals out of our country."
"The fact that Democrats want to die on this issue — more power to them!" he exclaimed.
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His forceful response drew an immediate reaction from Democrats on the panel, with Ashley Allison pushing back that the left is taking issue not with deporting violent immigrants, but democracy.
"It's easy to make this case the test case because it is as [Republican Scott Jennings] likes to say an 80-20 issue. We're not dying on the hill; we're trying to protect our Constitution," she insisted.
Allison said people should follow the law when a ruling comes down from a judge, including former and current presidents.
"It doesn't mean the president gets to have an order by decree just because he was elected by a majority of Americans," she insisted.
Later in the discussion, Jennings tried to assert that everyone deported by Trump was a "terrorist."
"Alleged!" retorted Josh Rogin, lead global security analyst at The Washington Post. "We don't really know."
The panel shouted over each other for several seconds as Jennings insisted the immigrants were in the country illegally.
"We don't know!" Neera Tanden, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, fired back.
"These people are in the country illegally. They're not citizens of the United States!" Jennings exclaimed.
"Why do you think they were here? Vacationing for a couple of days in Florida?" asked Singleton.
"Tell me the names of the people and their status. You don't know," Rogin replied. "You don't know who they are, and I don't know who they are because they didn't tell us, and they shipped them to an El Salvadorian prison without any due process whatsoever."
After the panel again talked over each other, Jennings questioned whether illegal immigrants "get to run wild through the United States while we wait" for due process.
"No!" the panel replies.
"There's a middle ground where we give human's human rights," Rogin returned. "And as a country we give people — even people who are in this country without paperwork — basic human rights. And if you think that's coddling then I don't think you understand the founding of this country."
