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Sunny Hostin used her platform on The View this week to call the mass deportations being carried out by Donald Trump inherently 'racist'.

Hostin made the claims less than ten minutes into Monday's episode, after her co-host Whoopi Goldberg observed how she was raring to go.

The conversation, at that point, had turned to the deportations currently taking place across the country -  and Goldberg introduced the topic by calling attention to Hostin's less-than-thrilled face.

'Her face was saying something I felt [that] she wanted to say verbally,' Goldberg said, leading the licensed attorney to laugh in response.

However, Hostin quickly grew serious and launched a lengthy response - one that caused the panel's lone Republican, Alyssa Farah Griffin, to offer a correction.

Hostin, 56, had claimed Trump's operation was racist for not targeting European immigrants, mistakenly citing a statistic involving documented visitors from the continent.

Griffin, 35, chimed in to point this out, leading Ana Navarro, an immigrant herself, to claim many of the sample set still overstay their welcome after being granted a visa.

Hostin - a week removed from belittling a black artist for merely appearing at Trump's inauguration - seemingly seized the opportunity to still get her point across.

Sunny Hostin used her platform on The View Monday to call the mass deportations being carried out by Donald Trump inherently 'racist'

Sunny Hostin used her platform on The View Monday to call the mass deportations being carried out by Donald Trump inherently 'racist'

The conversation, at that point, had just turned to the deportations taking place across the country

The conversation, at that point, had just turned to the deportations taking place across the country

'They overstay their visas so they're undocumented,' she said in response to Nicaraguan-born Navarro, after insisting to an unconvinced Griffin that 'a lot of [Europeans] are undocumented actually.

'The Europeans who come here are undocumented, but they don't come across the southern border,' she continued.

'So I think there's a very clear message as to what this president wants the look of a criminal migrant to look like.'

Hostin, however, quickly fact-checked herself to clarify she had met 'undocumented migrant[s],' after left-leaning outlets like MSNBC pointed out how less than half of the ICE arrests on Monday affected migrants with criminal records.  

'And I think that's racist,' Hostin further claimed of criteria fueling the arrests, despite getting it wrong.

The studio audience in New York then offered a round of applause, after which Hostin, utilizing her history as an attorney, claimed Trump had broken federal law by ordering the operation.

She framed the executive action as a 'circumvent[ion] [of] established law by weaponizing the US Military, leaving the rest of the panel largely at a loss.

When Goldberg asked her to clarify, Hostin launched yet another rant - after which Griffin had to again weigh in to offer, in her words, 'clarity.'

Longtime panelist Whoopi Goldberg introduced the topic by calling attention to Hostin's face before giving her the floor. A visibly irate Hostin went on to claim the deportations were racist for not targeting Europeans, mistakenly citing a statistic involving documented immigrants

Longtime panelist Whoopi Goldberg introduced the topic by calling attention to Hostin's face before giving her the floor. A visibly irate Hostin went on to claim the deportations were racist for not targeting Europeans, mistakenly citing a statistic involving documented immigrants

'Generally before being deported you have an asylum case pending front of a court and you must appear in front of that judge,' Hostin went on to state, adding how 'right now there are 3 million asylum cases, and 900 judges' overseeing such proceedings.

'That is why the bipartisan bill that was going to be passed addressed that particular issue,' she said of the bill that almost sparked a government shutdown late last year.

'Instead of dealing with it legally that way - and I'm not saying he's doing it illegally - what [Trump] did was declared a national emergency that qualifies as a foreign invasion.'

Trump's perceived invasion, she said, was at 'The US-Mexico border - not any other border. And that cleared the way for the Department of Defense to deploy the military at a 60 percent increase.'

She went on to argue that 'many' members of the military 'did not join the military to do that job,' before finishing by saying, '[Federal officials] are also racially profiling in doing this.'

She went on to rattle off a list of cities being raided before it emerged hours later that ICE had successfully apprehended roughly 1,200 alleged offenders on Monday alone as part of the ongoing operation.

Hostin, however, still framed them as 'citizens' - while ignoring how nearly half had criminal records.

'And among the citizens that they detained and questioned was a Puerto Rican man and a military vet,' she pointed out. All persons born in Puerto Rico since the start of 1941 are citizens of the US at birth, the government notes. 

Lone Republican Alyssa Farrah Griffin chimed in to point this out, but Hostin continued to try to get her point across

Lone Republican Alyssa Farrah Griffin chimed in to point this out, but Hostin continued to try to get her point across

Moreover, the man Hostin mentioned was likely mistakenly apprehended. 

'For the 50 million-thousandth time, Puerto Ricans are Americans and disproportionately serve in the military,' Hostin this time rightly claimed.

'And so I say, to all of this, that I am disappointed, disgusted, and saddened by what I'm seeing.' 

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained an unnamed U.S. military veteran after raiding a seafood store in New Jersey last week, leading the store's owner to tell Pix 11 how he believed the man was mistakenly targeted.

'I was confused; they took three people who did not have any documentation on them,' New Jersey's Luis Janota told the local outlet Thursday.

'I asked them [the agents] what documentation they were looking for, and they said it was a license or a passport. I thought, who walks around with a passport?

'They did not ask me for documentation for my American workers, Portuguese workers, or white workers,' the store owner added, stating that three arrests were made.

'One of the guys was a military veteran, and the way he looked to me was because he was Hispanic,' he stated.

This caused Ana Navarro, an immigrant herself, to claim many of the sample set still overstay their welcome after being granted a visa - a claim Hostin latched onto

This caused Ana Navarro, an immigrant herself, to claim many of the sample set still overstay their welcome after being granted a visa - a claim Hostin latched onto

'He is Puerto Rican and the manager of our warehouse. It looked to me like they were specifically going after certain kinds of people — not every kind, because they did not ask me for documentation for my American workers, Portuguese workers, or white workers.'

In the wake of Hostin's argument, Goldberg agreed - leading Griffin, a former Trump aide who openly voted for Kamala Harris, to again speak up, this time to bash legal Latinos and suggest they were at least in part to blame for the ongoing arrests.

'Can I make one point of clarity?' she asked, before echoing Hostin's earlier, rhetorical question about whether 'this [is] what people voted for?'

Weeks removed from a landslide election that saw Trump gain ground with Latinos, Griffin said: 'I've actually seen some video this weekend of Latinos who voted for Trump crying because now their abuelas [grandmothers] and their tios [uncles] are getting deported.

'I'm having a very hard time mustering up any sympathy for those people,' Griffin said, as deportations continue to be carried out.

'You said that, [not me],' Sarah Haines at this point said, suggesting similar thoughts were on her mind.

'Yeah, and look,' Navarro went on to add. 'I'm an immigrant. I know the desperation that it takes to leave your country.

'Amongst immigrants in particular, there is no doubt that we want anybody who had the opportunity to come to this great country and committed a crime, we want them punished.

Despite the factual inconsistencies, Goldberg and other panelists appeared to agree, with Griffin offering clarification to Hostin's comments along the way

Despite the factual inconsistencies, Goldberg and other panelists appeared to agree, with Griffin offering clarification to Hostin's comments along the way

Griffin - a Kamala Harris voter who once worked for Trump - went on to bash legal Latinos, suggesting they were at least in part to blame for the ongoing arrests

Griffin - a Kamala Harris voter who once worked for Trump - went on to bash legal Latinos, suggesting they were at least in part to blame for the ongoing arrests

'We want them deported to the fullest extent of the law, but a lot of good, hardworking people who are in our schools, who are our colleagues, who own houses and businesses here, who are the parents of US citizen children, are getting caught up in this,' she continued.  

'Because it's been reported that ICE officers all over the country have been given a quota. There is no way they meet that quota with just criminal aliens.'

She went on to brand the operation, as many progressives have in recent days, as a 'publicity stunt.'

'The point is cruelty. The point is instilling fear, [and] it's also very costly.'