A Georgia Republican lawmaker ripped MSNBC‘s Super Tuesday panel mocking Virginia voter concerns about immigration as a dominant 2024 presidential election topic.
During the network’s Super Tuesday coverage, hosts Rachel Maddow, Jen Psaki, and Joy Reid scoffed at Virginians concerned about immigration.
“I live in Virginia. Immigration was the No. 1 issue,” Psaki said, which prompted laughter from her fellow co-hosts.
Maddow interrupted with a sarcastic quip, “Virginia does have a border with West Virginia, a very contested area.”
Reid was heard saying, “Build a wall.”
“There are some folks in Georgia not laughing,” Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) responded to the MSNBC hosts on social media.
Collins was referring to the recent murder of a 22-year-old University of Georgia college student, Laken Riley, who was allegedly killed by a Venezuelan immigrant who was in the country illegally with a record of criminal behavior.
The Georgia congressman introduced the Laken Riley Act in Congress on Tuesday to press for stricter laws against immigrants in the country illegally. The bill would “require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.” If passed, it would also apply to people living in the country illegally who commit or admit to burglary or shoplifting. The federal government could also be held accountable in lawsuits from states and residents for failing to enforce laws.
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Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV) also responded to MSNBC panelists mocking his state: “What an incredibly insulting statement about the hardworking, good people of West Virginia by liberal elites Jen Psaki and Rachel Maddow.”
He added, “Biden’s open-border policies have created a real crisis in America, making every state a border state, and they think it’s a joke.”
