Fox News host Laura Ingraham fearmongered as she claimed the tax cuts introduced by President Donald Trumpās administration will be ābled awayā by the āhuge demographic shiftā caused by illegal immigration.
Ingraham lashed out at Republicans for not passing legislation to deter undocumented immigrants from coming to the U.S. when they controlled both houses of Congress in an episode of āThe Laura Ingraham Show Podcastā released last week.
āBecause they couldāve done this and they didnāt do it and they decided not to do it. And they were doing other things, and the tax cut and all that,ā said Ingraham.
āBut tax cutās value is going to be bled away if we lose the country because of this huge demographic shift and bleed the country with all of these expenses we have now,ā she added. āSo, itās a massive problem.ā
Check out the audio, that Media Matters surfaced on Monday, here:
Itās an echo of the racist rhetoric that Ingraham repeated in August 2018 when she claimed, on her widely watched prime-time Fox News show āThe Ingraham Angle,ā that āthe America we know and love doesnāt exist anymore.ā
Itās just one of the multiple white nationalist talking points that Ingraham has hawked to her millions of viewers and listeners in recent years.
āMassive demographic changes have been foisted on the American people, and they are changes that none of us ever voted for, and most of us donāt like,ā she added last year, relating it āto both illegal and legal immigration.ā
At the time, Ingrahamās comments sparked outrage and a backlash among advertisers. Her latest claim is being equally criticized on Twitter: