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Lara Trump joins as Fox News contributor, calls out 'crying AOC' and labels border situation 'scary'

The daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump, Lara Trump, officially joined Fox News as a contributor, as announced on the network's morning show 'Fox & Friends'
UPDATED MAR 30, 2021
Lara Trump calls out Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and liberal hypocrisy regarding the border issue (Getty Images)
Lara Trump calls out Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and liberal hypocrisy regarding the border issue (Getty Images)

The daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump, Lara Trump, officially joined Fox News as a contributor, as announced on the network's morning show, 'Fox & Friends'. Lara Trump, who is married to Eric Trump and served as a fundraiser for Donald Trump, has worked as a senior consultant to Brad Parscale for Donald Trump's reelection campaign in 2020. In her first appearance as an official contributor, Lara took to speaking about the situation at the United States' southern border.

Lara made her first appearance on 'Fox & Friends' as the official contributor for the network, saying, "Well, I'm so excited, first of all, to be joining the Fox family. I sort of feel like I've been an unofficial member of the team for so long. You guys know it was kind of a joke over the past five years, I would come there so often that the security guards were like, maybe we should just give you a key.”

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During her appearance, Lara slammed what she said was "total hypocrisy" on the media's and Democratic politicians' response to the border situation. She said, "We had the most secure border under my father-in-law, under President Donald Trump that we have had in decades and I think the best thing possible is to discourage people from making that really dangerous, awful journey north through our southern border. The problem is that the Biden administration has said, ‘Well if they come, we’ll take you in'. So guess what's going to happen. You're going to continue to have all of these children, you know, flooding our southern border."

Eric Trump and Lara Trump address the crowd gathered at a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump at the BOK Center, June 20, 2020, in Tulsa, Oklahoma (Getty Images)

She continued, "It is so sad. It is so hard to watch, but we have to get this under control. This is not fair to these kids. It’s not fair to Americans who are footing the bill now. $86 million to pay for hotel rooms for illegal immigrants. People that are breaking our law, coming to America, we are paying $86 million for hotel rooms. It is totally unacceptable, but you know what? We don’t expect to see that change because this seems almost like it’s part of the Biden plan, sadly.”

She continued, "It's total hypocrisy. The way they covered this under the Trump administration versus the Biden administration is total hypocrisy. Where is the outrage from the folks on the left? Where is AOC down there doing a photo op crying in front of a wall? Because I have news for her, it’s much worse right now than it ever was under the Trump administration, yet it has been crickets from those folks. I think it tells a very scary story."

She concluded, "They know that they have millions of illegal immigrants coming to America. They are trying to change our voting laws. They are hoping one day that all of these folks can go in and vote with no ID because that’s one of the things in HR-1 that they are proposing. These are their new voters, and it is a terrifying prospect. If we let everybody flee flow over our southern border guys, we lose our country. It is a very, very scary thing going on."

Jared Kushner, wife of Eric Trump and Lara Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr and Tiffany Trump look on as Donald Trump prepares to deliver his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination on the South Lawn of the White House August 27, 2020, in Washington, DC (Getty Images)

There has been an uptick in migrants reaching the country's southern border since President Joe Biden took office earlier this year. However, as CNN reports, the fluctuations in the number of migrants at the US-Mexico border are common and were also present during former President Donald Trump's last eight months in office. 

According to the outlet, the majority of migrants encountered at the US-Mexico border were immediately turned back, and some tried to cross again. Of the nearly 97,000 migrants who crossed the border illegally in February, roughly 70,100 were turned away. 

According to CNN, during the 2019 fiscal year, the Border Patrol arrested more than 473,000 migrant families and around 76,000 unaccompanied children. May 2019 saw the highest number of overall apprehensions at 144,000. The number of children arrested at the border in March 2021, will likely surpass the high during May 2019.

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