Video footage from 2015 has resurfaced showing GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley, who was then serving as the Governor of South Carolina, insisting that illegal aliens are not criminals and that it’s “disrespectful” of Americans to call them such, even though they’ve ILLEGALLY entered the United States.
“We are a country of immigrants,” Haley, a first-generation American, claimed in the footage, parroting the frequent left-wing talking point that compares third-world human traffickers, narco-terrorists, and others invading America’s southern border to the settlers who tamed the wild frontier and built in its place the most advanced nation in world history.
“These people that are wanting to come here, they want to come here for a better life, too,” Haley went on to say.
“They have kids, too. They have a heart, too. So, we don’t need to be disrespectful. We don’t need to talk about them as criminals — they’re not. They’re families that want a better life, and they’re desperate to get here. What we need to do is make sure that we have a set of laws that we follow, and that we go through with that.”
