Sarah Huckabee Sanders gets in tense exchange with Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro on 'The View'

Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Sunny Hostin.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders appeared on Monday's episode of The View and got into a tense exchange with Sunny Hosting and Ana Navarro over immigration and Stephen Miller's appointment as President Trump's new White House chief of staff. 

During a discussion on U.S. policy toward illegal immigration, Hostin attempted to box Huckabee Sanders in with one of the left's typical linguistic tricks. 

"People aren't illegal," Hostin said. "They are undocumented."

"Well, actually, if you break the law that's the definition of illegal," Huckabee Sanders shot back.

"People are not illegal. They may commit crimes but they are not illegal," Hostin insisted, prompting Huckabee Sanders to reply, "That is factually incorrect."

Elsewhere in the interview, Navarro pressed Huckabee Sanders on Stephen Miller, Trump's new White House chief of staff, who has been seen as the architect of his immigration policy. Huckabee Sanders defended the White House agenda on immigration, saying Trump was right to put a focus on deporting violent illegals. But when Navarro tried a rhetorical trick to make her counterpoint, Huckabee Sanders shot it down. 

“No. You're not going to twist my words around," Huckabee Sanders, who accumulated plenty of experience dealing with hostile members of the media as White House press secretary during Trump's first term, said. She then went on to tell a story about a pediatric nurse named Jennifer Ann Morton who was killed by an illegal deported during Trump's first term and then allowed back into the country while Joe Biden was president. 

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