Kayleigh McEnany Once Said Deportation Is ‘Not the American Way’

Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany seemingly supported open borders while she worked for CNN in 2015.

“The mainstream Republican does not want to send the illegal immigrants back to Mexico,” McEnany said to Don Lemon at the time.

“I think that they’re here to stay, that’s not the American way. We’re not going to ship people across the border. There has to be some path to citizenship,” she said.

The statement comes as part of a viral compilation of her worst CNN moments.

McEnany also told Lemon that “Donald Trump has shown himself to be a showman,” adding, “I don’t think he’s a serious candidate.”

Reporting from National File:

McEnany’s transformation from an open-borders Never Trumper at CNN to a Trump White House Press Secretary to a pro-DeSantis anchor at Fox News could be compared to the evolution of another young female news anchor, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.

In 2015, when McEnany worked as CNN’s token Republican panelist, Collins was working at The Daily Caller and joined a Fox News program to spout off anti-Soros talking points, warning that Soros was using open borders to replace Western populations.

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