The Daily Show’s news correspondent Michael Che sat down with one of the mainstays of the anti-immigrant movement — Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen — in a segment that aired last night. As Gilchrist talked about the children at the border in terms of invasion and apocalypse, Che had to stop and check him: “These are children, right?”
As the interview went on, Gilchrist’s hostility to the migrant children became ever more clear. “I don’t think they’re [from] war zones,” he said, disputing, you know, all the evidence there is. “I think they’re lying.”
A recent Think Progress piece found that a number of children have been murdered after being deported from the US and forced to return to their home countries. But that tragic reality doesn’t seem to be a problem for Gilchrist. “We’re all going to die someday,” he said. “We can’t help that.”
