First Generation Immigrant Wants To Deport Half The Country

“Deportation is bad. Unless we’re doing it to people we don’t like.”

That’s barely an exaggeration of the argument forwarded by lawyer and former MSNBC host Katie Phang. Phang aired her grievances in an interview with writer Wajahat Ali, who hosts a Substack called “The Left Hook.” 

“I’d rather take the people that are driven by cruelty and hatred, and let’s just do like a penal colony somewhere, and put them on somewhere else,” Phang began. (RELATED: ‘He’s A F*ck-Up!’: Joy Reid Goes On 4-Minute Anti-White Rant About Trump’s ‘Sloppy’ Appearance)

Phang is a “daughter of immigrants,” according to the description of their interview posted by Ali. Her father immigrated to the United States from South Korea. South Korea is extraordinarily ethnically homogenous. Their small foreign population is mostly Chinese nationals, overseas Koreans with F-4 visas, and tourists, according to the Korea Herald. 

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Phang doesn’t seem to have too many hang-ups about immigration control in her father’s native country. She’s very concerned about policing Americans who want immigration control in their country. 

“I have literally said if you don’t like it in the United States, then you need to leave, because I like it here.”

Phang is ripping rhetoric straight from the playbook of verboten right-wing retorts. As it turns out, a lot of people like living in the United States. They like it so much that they’re willing to break the law to live here. Hence the need for border control. 

“It sounds like you actually don’t want to be here in the United States, ugly white Christian nationalist white people. So maybe you need to take your sorry asses and go create your own fucking penal colony somewhere else,” Phang continued. “I’m sure there is a virus-infested island somewhere that would be happy to take you.”

A mass settlement of white people on a small island nation is unimaginable. Unless you’re familiar with Britain. No doubt, the rest of the world would soon come knocking on their door. 

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“It’s about as explicit as it can be. I don’t want you here in the United States with me,” Phang went on. “So I think you need to pack your shit and get out. And you know, there’s planes leaving this country, apparently. Donald Trump has no problem, you know, contributing to the degradation of our ozone layer by flying people and kidnapping them off. There’s a plane that’s going to leave the United States. Get on and get the fuck out. Why don’t you guys go to CECOT in El Salvador?”

Sure, let’s measure the morality of every action by its carbon footprint. No more impassioned rants. Too much exhalation. No more sneaking into the United States. Your human smuggler’s car is guzzling fossil fuels. Everyone should sit stone still and wait around to die. You’re welcome, Mother Earth. (RELATED: Trump Admin’s New Report Blows Massive Hole In The Left’s Climate Catastrophe Narrative)

As for Phang’s other nasty fantasies, some Americans have deep roots in the United States. They aren’t going to dig up those roots at the behest of a bitter ex-MSNBC host.

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