As outrage spread over the government killing of two people protesting the mass deployment of federal agents to trap migrants in Minneapolis, Hannity attacked Democrats’ approach to border security before criticizing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement roundups at some job sites.
“Now, is ICE perfect? They’re not,” Hannity said on his radio show. “Can they do a better job? They can. … Do I think that going into Home Depots and arresting people there is a good idea? I don’t.”
“If you’re working at a place, you’re not the immediate problem,” the Fox News host continued. “Eventually, we’ll have to deal with those people that didn’t respect our laws, borders and sovereignty.”
Targeting big-box stores like Home Depot, which was co-founded by the late Trump ally Bernie Marcus, has been a Homeland Security tactic for months. Immigrant laborers are known to congregate there to perhaps get hired by contractors or homeowners shopping there. Earlier this year, White House adviser Stephen Miller, one of the anti-immigrant architects of the deportation plan, encouraged ICE to focus on Home Depots and 7-Elevens.
“There’s gotta be a program where people get to come forward,” Hannity continued on his radio show. “I think they should then be given transportation home. They can get a check for, what, $2,000? And they can apply to come back in the country legally. We can vet them. We can do a health check on them and make sure they won’t be a financial burden on the American people. I think that’d be a more responsible, reasonable way to deal with that problem.”