Tara Setmayer Says Passing by Ellis Island ‘Brought Her to Tears:’ ‘What Have We Become?’

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SETMAYER: "We’re about to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our country. You know, I actually did a very tourist-y thing today. For the first time in like 10 years, I took one of those sightseeing boats and I passed by Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, and it brought me to tears because I’m looking at how far our country has come under these -- under the leadership of people like this and  the hypocrisy of people like Stephen Miller, whose own family were Jews, who came to this country to escape what happened in Germany, and the despicable things that come out of his mouth and a lot of these other people, and I thought about my own family that came here through Ellis Island in 1924. Could you imagine, I mean, my Italian, my Sicilian family, you know what they were called when they came here? All kinds of things. Irish families, all of those things. But they were still able to survive and persevere in this country. And that nativist kind of language that’s coming back at any one that, you know, if you’re pregnant, if you — what if you got a tan and you’re pregnant and somebody suspects, 'Oh, well, you must be from one of those sh*thole countries that Trump doesn’t like. What have we become? This is -- and targeting women? The misogyny here is on full display. It’s bigger than just trying to make up something about, you know, some red herring again, about CCP Chinese agents, that's a bunch of bullsh*t."