Greg Gutfeld confronted MSNBC panelist Jessica Tarlov over what he called Democrat-fueled chaos at the border, arguing their sudden outrage over ICE shootings is performative while they ignore violent crimes tied to illegal immigration.
On Fox News, Greg Gutfeld cut through the polite debate and launched into Jessica Tarlov after she raised concerns about the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. He charged that Democrats are the ones responsible for the disorder their critics now blame on federal immigration agents. Gutfeld framed the clash as a broader fight over law, order, and political theater.
“Nothing you said matters,” Gutfeld said. “Everything you said does not matter.” “It does to millions of people,” Tarlov retorted. “No, it doesn’t, because everything you mentioned are the consequences…” Gutfeld said as Tarlov scoffed at his comment.
Gutfeld pushed back hard on the idea that outrage over ICE actions is sincere when, he argued, Democrats long ignored victims of crimes committed by illegal immigrants. He called out an open-border policy as the root cause and said political elites refused to confront the fallout. The exchange grew tense as Tarlov mocked one point: “Alex Pretti, snuck right through that border,” Tarlov said mockingly.
We had dozens of deaths where you didn’t say sh*t. Jocelyn Nungaray, Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, Mollie Tibbetts… I’m going to just do it, because I can’t believe we are still talking about this. There’s three pages of women who have been murdered by illegal aliens, in the last like seven or eight years. The seven or eight years that we have been talking about this and mocked over it. When we showed the border being overrun, and people laughed at us. And now you’re here…It’s like you’re the maid trying to clean up a mess, and somebody there is staring at you, going ‘Oh, you gotta clean it up better.’ No, you made the mess; this is the Democrat Party’s mess that we are trying to clean up. And you’re saying, ‘Wow, these ICE agents are using terrible language.’ We don’t care.
That paragraph-sized indictment was followed by Gutfeld labeling much of the media reaction hypocritical and politically timed. He argued Democrats latch onto incidents involving federal agents as leverage while dismissing earlier victims. The tone left little room for nuance: this was, in his view, political theater dressed up as moral outrage.
I’m bored by this. I’m absolutely bored by this. I’m bored by the Nazi stuff, I’m bored by the concerned people in the media that were not concerned when innocent women were raped and murdered. They didn’t care about the 50 who died when they were incarcertaed under Obama. They didn’t care about the 27 or 30 that were shot under Obama. But now they care. You deserve no attention on this. You deserve no credibility on this. It’s actually comical. Because here is my feeling. It seems like you are ready for another one. You had Good, that one for a couple of weeks, you had this guy (Pretti) went for a week or so, you’re going to need a third one. This is what this is about. Because this is what creates the motivation, the motivation for this drama. This drama that could have been prevented if you guys just listened to the sensible people.
Gutfeld then broadened the argument to contrast crime rates and local policies, asking why violence spikes in some cities and not in others. He insisted Democrats refuse to explain their policy choices or accept responsibility for the results. That line of questioning was meant to paint the debate as less about compassion and more about political calculation.
Why is it that cities that aren’t sanctuary aren’t having any violence? Why is it that the rate of violence in Minneapolis is five to seven times higher than cities that are three to four times larger? Why is that? You guys are always feigning this performative ignorance that you don’t understand things. You never explain your own ignorance. Why is there so much violence in Minneapolis and not Texas? See, there are different people. There are people who, when they hear an awful crime, when Mollie Tibbetts is murdered, they think of their wife, they think of their kids, they think of their sister, they think of their mother. What do Democrats think about? Just a step before they think about their family, they think: How does it affect my public persona? Hows it affect my potential politically? How do I deal with this so that I get instant gratification and empathy?
“We don’t think like that,” Gutfeld said. “We don’t care. You can call me a monster, that’s saying that all of these people get deported, I don’t care. I don’t care about any of this performance anymore, Jessica. It’s done. And you know what, neither does Trump. People voted for the law; they want the law. If you want to cry about murderers and rapists, do it on your own time.”
Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.
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