Wednesday, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith offered an emotional reaction while commenting on the image of an El Salvadoran father and his 2-year-old daughter dead on the banks of the Rio Grande River after attempting to cross the border.
Smith said, “Its been awhile since I’ve seen an image so explode in the national discussion.”
He continued, “The process of presenting yourself has changed. The process now is lists are kept haphazardly. There’s no official lists in many cases. People are told it’s going to be a long time. At which point they go to migrant camps where the temperatures are over 100 degrees.”
He explained, “They’re not going back because it is horrendous where they came from. Through the history of this nation, we have seen give us your tired, your poor and your huddled masses. That’s what we’ve seen as a society to people who were in a position where they cannot or their children cannot survive.”
Smith added, “We have always since the dawn of this nation said ‘come, we’ll figure this out. Since the dawn of this nation every time those communities have come here, they have made America better. We’ve always said yes. We have said if you’re—if your heart is in the right place and your idea is in the right place and you want to come be a part of this grand experiment, we want you here. When did we change that? How do we get the previous way back?”
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