Fox News' Laura Ingraham claims 'most' migrants could be carrying deadly diseases, invoking common anti-immigrant trope

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Fox News' Laura Ingraham claims 'most' migrants could be carrying deadly diseases, invoking common anti-immigrant trope
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Invoking language historically used to stigmatize immigrant populations, Ingraham likened letting migrants enter the U.S. to playing Russian Roulette.

on Friday that"most" migrants entering the U.S. illegally could be carrying infectious diseases.

Talk show host Laura Ingraham speaks during CPAC 2019 February 28, 2019 in National Harbor, Maryland. The American Conservative Union hosts the annual Conservative Political Action Conference to discuss conservative agenda.

Still, Ingraham continued speculated that migrants could be to blame for rising illness rates in California's homeless populations, without providing data or statistics to support her theory. The health crisis at the border continues to trouble human rights workers, who last week issued a report on the squalid conditions.

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