Al Arabiya News editor Wissam Keyrouz says Patty Morin’s White House appearance was a classic populist tactic, despite the emotional weight of her story.
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00:00Wissam, let's start with you. Obviously, that was incredibly moving to hear from Patti Moran when she was speaking last night, right there with the press secretary.
00:12However, some critics are arguing that these two cases, the case of Garcia and the case of what they were speaking about here, are just worlds apart. They're not even related.
00:23They are not even from the same country, even though the story, the testimony that we heard is heartbreaking. It is really very touching.
00:34But at the same time, this is a very old populist trick, bringing a very touching story in order to inflict a certain stigma on the whole population.
00:46And it serves the purpose for a certain rhetoric within the Trump agenda, which says that there are plenty of criminals within the immigrants, as simple as that.
01:00And it comes very on spot. Unfortunately, people are aware that this is only a way to play politics.
01:11And this is very unfortunate, in my opinion, to use this kind of story.