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Symone Sanders Michael Steele Alicia Menendez April Ryan Joe Walsh MSNBC The Weekend 12-29-24 Sparked by the internal GOP debate over H1B1 visas, Sunday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Weekend offered a stunning display of idiocy on the topic of immigration.

Michal Steele began by insulting Trump’s intelligence: “Let’s be very clear, Donald Trump doesn’t know the difference between H1B1 and a H1B1 bomber.”

Then Steele took a page from Joy Reid, accusing Trump of wanting to put migrants in “concentration camps.” Give it a rest, Michael. Even your buddy Joe Scarborough has admitted that all his Trump/Hitler talk didn’t work in November. 

April Ryan of The Grio predictably racialized the immigration issue, suggesting there’s all kinds of Ukrainian Uber drivers, so  saying “It’s brown versus white. But when it is black and brown at the border, that’s the problem. You want to close people off. But, oh, I’m going to welcome these visas coming in from Ukraine and all these other countries of the people who look like him.”

News Flash For Ryan:

In 2023, 84% of people visas granted H1B visas were from India and China. And at last count, 70% of holders of H-2B visas were from . . . Mexico!

Co-host Symone Sanders then insisted that race must be a part of the conversation not only on immigration, but on “any of the these other issues.” Steele agreed: “Everything.”

Shouting “Hello America!” Sanders proceeded to go 1619 Project:

“Do we need to go back to the fundamentals of who built this country and how? And what we were really founded on?”

Ex-Republican Joe Walsh, who in 2020 was a “presidential candidate” for a nanosecond before becoming a liberal lapdog, dutifully agreed with Sanders: “Yes!”  

Here’s the transcript.

MSNBC
The Weekend
12/29/24
8:03 am ET

MICHAEL STEELE: We start with H1B1 because, let’s be very clear, Donald Trump doesn’t know the difference between H1B1 and a H1B1 bomber. So, the reality of it is, Joe, Donald Trump’s siding with Elon Musk is yet again proof of two things for me. One, he likes the money, so he gonna he gonna kowtow to the money. And two, he’s got someone who can think for him. 

This is a team. with Trump at the lead, that wants to deport people, that wants to put them in concentration camps because they shouldn’t be here in their view. 

. . . 

APRIL RYAN: When we start talking about immigration and the deportation, a mass deportation process that is expected to happen, think about this visa conversation. Visas are part of immigration. Visas are part of the broken immigration system. 

And look at this. Those who are at the southern border make up everyone from around the world, to include black and brown people. But visas, a lot of times who come in, they fly in from the Ukraine, and they’re driving the Ubers on vacation sites all around this country, like Martha’s Vineyard, everywhere.  And you have a lot of that, like he said, like the president said, a lot of those people are working in his establishments, his golf course, his Mar-a-Lago estate. 

This is part of the immigration problem, and people are not talking about it. It’s brown versus white. But when it is black and brown at the border, that’s the problem. You want to close people off. But, oh, I’m going to welcome these visas coming in from Ukraine and all these other countries of the people who look like him. 

So there is a devil in the details, and we’re not talking about how this part is broken as well.

SYMONE SANDERS: Mmm-hmm. Can we just, I want to bold and underline what April just said, because oftentimes when we are talking about immigration or any of these other issues, folks are like, oh, why you gotta bring race into it? Race is inextricably always a part of the conversation. 

STEELE: Everything.

SANDERS: Hello, America! Do we need to go back to the fundamentals of who built this country and how? And what we were really founded on? 

JOE WALSH: Yes.