Depart it to Fox Information to in some way discover a method to shoehorn the subject of unlawful immigration and “migrant crime” into breaking protection of the “brazen” homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who authorities say was “particularly focused” exterior of a New York Metropolis resort on Wednesday.

Moderating a panel dialogue concerning the surprising assault, which befell early within the morning exterior the New York Midtown Hilton, Fox Information anchor Harris Faulkner referenced a current New York Put up story concerning the variety of “unlawful migrants” in NYC who’ve legal data.

Whereas acknowledging that regulation enforcement hasn’t linked immigration to Thompson’s homicide, Faulkner asserted that it was nonetheless a related subject as a result of the sheer variety of “migrant criminals” within the metropolis is bogging down the New York Police Division.

“You understand, I wish to use this as a backdrop. Not solely do we now have vacationers right here, we lately came upon the final day or so we now have 58,000 recognized criminals who crossed our border illegally,” she breathlessly said. “Not that there can be any connection, naturally, with this but it surely makes the work tougher for the NYPD as a result of they’re already coping with the rampant crime uptick from these people who broke our first regulation coming right here illegally.”

After retired NYPD officer Darrin Porcher agreed that the “migrant disaster” has “dilapidated the standard of life” in New York, Faulkner added that “simply by way of preventing crime it makes it exhausting.” Saying that almost 60,000 folks within the metropolis “intend to dwell a lifetime of crime” now that they’ve migrated to the USA, Faulkner claimed that it made the police’s job of “locking down a criminal offense scene” rather more tough.

“New York Metropolis is a sanctuary metropolis,” Fox Information contributor Leo Terrell famous. “Query mark — this man had a masks on. Query mark — so far as cooperation that’s gonna happen involving this particular person. We don’t know his ethnicity. We don’t know his authorized standing.”

With the manhunt for the suspect underway, and police stating that the alleged gunman seems to be a light-skinned male who used a silenced firearm and fled the scene on a bicycle, the right-wing community’s hosts and commentators continued to invoke the “migrant disaster” whereas discussing the capturing.

Co-hosting the roundtable present Outnumbered, Faulkner as soon as once more introduced up the “58,000 further criminals on the bottom right here as a result of we now have let in so many illegals,” claiming that “there are some vicious, violent murderers” in that group.

“Not that that has something to do with this case, aside from this — that’s further footwork for NYPD,” Faulkner exclaimed. “You’ve obtained to really feel via all of that and you’ve got folks already attempting to cover from regulation enforcement. So that you’ve obtained to verify all people who’s hiding faces and doing all that stuff isn’t a part of — that’s simply mind-boggling. 58,000 of those folks right here, and these are the dangerous guys!”

Regardless that violent crime charges have continued to fall lately, with the FBI displaying homicide was down 23 % within the first half of this yr, Fox Information obsessively lined the so-called “migrant crime” disaster all through President-elect Donald Trump’s marketing campaign.

Notably, the time period — which grew to become one of many key points Trump fixated on within the runup to the election — first bubbled up inside MAGA media after New York Metropolis Eric Adams argued in February of this yr that the rise of migrants was affecting the crime charge in his metropolis.