Joe Scarborough lauded Pope Leo as the moral authority on mass deportation on Thursday’s Morning Joe. The man who boasts about his Southern Baptist upbringing is charming the Vatican:
“To go out and to welcome the foreigner, citing the Good Samaritan verses in Luke….The pope says we will be judged by how we welcome foreigners….The pope even at one point suggesting it’s hard to call yourself pro-life if you support such horrific treatment of those who are alive, are neighbors.”
It’s an MSNBC sermon, that Jesus is the opposite of President Trump:
“As Jesus would say. Our neighbors, the foreigner. This is what Jesus said. So if you have a problem with that, don’t even take it up with the Pope. If you’re claiming to be a Christian, take it up with Jesus, because that’s what he says. And so, yes, this is as we see the church get more and more involved in the protecting of the dignity of human beings, of God’s children. You are going to see this become a more difficult political issue.
“Yes, even for Republicans who have turned a blind eye to everything that Jesus said in the New Testament about about welcoming foreigners, being kind to the least among us.”
Speaking of morality and immigration, which public said the following?
- “Now, while national Guard troops are moving to the U.S./Mexican border, stunning new statistics are showing the massive scale of an ongoing invasion of illegal immigrants from Mexico. Today, more concerns that along with workers are coming drug dealers, gang members, convicted felons, and quite possibly terrorists.”
- “A nation that does not enforce its border laws invites chaos, criminality, and human suffering. The Border crisis has been worsening since 2016. We can and must do better supporting our overworked Border Patrol.”
- “We have a crisis at the southern border. We’ve had a crisis at the southern border, and it’s gotten so bad now that there’s some infighting in the administration over how to stop just this, this torrrent of migrants coming across the border in a very uncontrolled, unsafe way that creates a humanitarian crisis.”
The warning that among those coming across the border from Mexico are “drug dealers, gang members, convicted felons, and quite possibly terrorists” has, in liberal eyes, frightening echoes of Trump’s 2015 golden escalator speech:
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”
So, from a liberal perspective, who was the extreme-right ultraconservative spewing this anti-immigrant venom? Was it Nick Fuentes, or some other xenophobic, white nationalist kook?
Nope, turns out it was Joe Scarborough who uttered all those lines, some as recently as 2022.
What happened to Joe Scarborough? How did he go from fire-breathing immigration hawk, worried about “drug dealers, gang members, convicted felons, and quite possibly terrorists” coming across the border, to someone that even llhan Omar might accuse of being a tad too soft on border security?
With MSNBC about to undergo its transmogrification into MS NOW on November 15th, is Scarborough seeking to assure its liberal audience that he is all-in on leftist ideology, ridding himself of the last remnants of his conservative past?
Or, after 17 years at Morning Joe, could Scarborough be longing to get back into government? Might Joe be auditioning for a job as Deputy Mayor For Immigrant Rights in Mayor Mamdani’s administration?
