Former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera raged Thursday at the Trump administration's deportation of "family people" alongside criminals who illegally migrated to the United States.
Rivera joined Piers Morgan on his YouTube show "Piers Morgan Uncensored" to discuss Trump's immigration policies. Morgan asked him to respond to an earlier interview with President Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, who argued that the United States should not let anyone who illegally immigrates to stay in the country.
Rivera accused immigration officials of "racially profiling" Latinos in their deportation operations.
"They are racially profiling Latinos where Spanish-speaking people of brown skin are afraid to walk around for fear of a masked ICE agent stopping them and demanding their papers," Rivera said. "It is outrageous."
"Once they make it inside the United States and have been here for decades, god-fearing, law-abiding family people, for God's sakes, give them some compassion," he continued. "Give them some American spirit."
The Trump administration has claimed they are prioritizing deportations for violent criminals, but media reports suggest that is not true. There have been numerous instances where American citizens and people with legal immigration status have been swept up in the deportation operations.
Rivera also took issue with ICE agents wearing masks during the operations.
"If what he is doing is so noble, if what he is doing is so necessary for the fate of our republic, the United States, then why do his ICE agents wear masks?" he asked.