OAN Staff James Meyers
7:55 AM – Tuesday, June 10, 2025
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin declared Monday that it wasn’t illegal to be undocumented because it’s not considered a crime.
“Sixty percent of the American public, two-thirds of independents, 90% of Republicans and just a little under half of Democrats think the crime is in being undocumented,” co-host Sara Haines said of Trump administration deportation efforts. “What I’m saying is, a massive amount of this country actually agrees with, not how he’s doing it, but what he’s doing.”
The hosts of the show were critical of President Donald Trump for sending in the National Guard on Monday to help stop the protests in Los Angeles over the weekend.
“There’s misinformation out there,” Hostin said. “Let’s axe that right now, because it is not illegal to be undocumented. It is not a crime to be undocumented. People are not illegal.”
“We need to put that information out there. It is a civil infraction,” Hostin continued.
Her co-host, Alyssah Farah Griffin, gave her push back and said that it wasn’t a misunderstanding, referencing Haines’ argument.
“I think that 60% of Americans believe it’s a civil offense and that if you come here, and you’re undocumented, that you should be deported,” she said.
Haines then told her co-hosts that they need to realize that more Americans are in favor of deportations than they think.
Meanwhile, Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) was critical of Trump for deploying the National Guard over the weekend to help with the chaos.
“I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles county and return them to my command,” Newsom wrote on X on Sunday alongside his letter to Trump. “We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. This is a serious breach of state sovereignty – inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed.”
Additionally, multiple polls have shown support for deportations of illegal migrants.
In May, a Pew Research Center poll found that 32% of U.S. adults say all illegal immigrants should be deported from the country, while 16% say none should be deported.
Close to half of U.S. adults said some of the migrants living in the country illegally should be deported, but could not find a common factor for what should determine a deportation.
UPDATE – CORRECTION – 06/10/25 – 10:14 a.m. PT – apostrophe was added in the word “its,” changing it to “it’s” in the article’s title.
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