Whoopi Goldberg argued on Monday that if President Donald Trump could detain and deport pro-Hamas Columbia University activists, as well as immigrants tied to gang activity, it could “happen to any of us.”
“You just gotta keep your eyes open, y’all,” Goldberg warned, suggesting that legal U.S. citizens could be at risk of deportation.
During a segment on The View, she addressed the Trump administration’s move to deport more than 250 gang members affiliated with the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua and MS-13 to a prison in El Salvador.
Without evidence, ABC’s News moderator Whoopi Goldberg claims Trump is about to deport anyone who says something against him:
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“Because if they can just come up and take somebody because they’ve made a decision that you’re supposed to be that person, any one of us could find ourselves being deported to some country when we’ve never been there,” Goldberg said.
“Don’t give them any ideas, girl!” co-host Ana Navarro said.
“I understand you want to clean out all the old, some bad stuff,” Goldberg added, referring to the administration’s work with the Department of Government Efficiency. “I get it, but why do you now have access to my personal information? I get what the things you are trying to do. I don’t understand why you’re taking my stuff. My personal — not mine personally, but each and every one of you! And your constitutional right to free speech.”
Goldberg criticized that conservatives are performing censorship of free speech in the arrest and detainment of former Columbia student activist Mahmoud Khalil.
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“In fact, you’re doing the same thing you’re accusing others of doing,” Goldberg said. “And you’re doing it in a way we’ve never seen before.”
She added that conservatives haven’t experienced censorship because very few people have “stopped you from speaking out.”