Left-wing podcaster calls illegal immigrant crime stories ‘exhausting’ after woman’s strangling
A CNN panel erupted Tuesday after far-left podcast host Leigh McGowan called repeated discussions of Americans killed by illegal immigrants "exhausting" after a conservative panelist raised the strangling death of Massachusetts woman Brianna Connolly by an illegal immigrant.
The panel was discussing the death of Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old Haitian-born college student in Ohio whose family said he died by suicide Monday after being required to wear an ankle monitor after losing his Temporary Protected Status.
Ohio State Highway Patrol said Bel died after walking into traffic on Interstate 70 and that the incident remained under investigation.
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"Well, temporary does mean temporary, so eventually this individual may have been ordered to be removed," The Federalist reporter Brianna Lyman said on the "NewsNight" panel.
"I think it's kind of insulting that we're talking about this immigrant instead of Brianna Connolly from Massachusetts who was strangled last week by an illegal alien.
Why is the focus never…" DAD OF GIRL LEFT PERMANENTLY DISABLED IN CRASH WITH ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT RIPS DEMS: ‘I REJECT YOUR SYMPATHY’ McGowan interrupted Lyman as she mentioned Connolly’s killing.
"Oh my God!" she said.
"It’s so exhausting.
Over and over again." Lyman immediately responded by contrasting McGowan’s frustration with the experiences of victims’ families.
"It’s exhausting for you because your daughter wasn't the one strangled," Lyman said.
"But it’s not exhausting for the parents of Americans who watch their children get murdered by illegal aliens." WATCH: ANGEL MOM TURNS TABLES ON SANCTUARY POLITICIANS WITH BASIC QUESTION ABOUT THEIR PRIORITIES Lyman responded to the clash in a statement to Fox News Digital on Wednesday, accusing the political left of becoming more upset when illegal immigrant crime is raised than by the crimes themselves.
"Leftists are objectively pro-crime, which is why Democrat-run cities are all riddled with crime.
It's the same reason why illegal alien crime doesn't anger them but Americans mentioning it does," she said.
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