Ken Cuccinelli Tears Apart CNN Anchor Erin Burnett '98 on Historic Public Charge Rules

NEW YORK, NY - In a recent CNN broadcast, CNN's Erin Burnett '98 challenged the acting US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on the Trump administration's new immigration regulation, a regulation which would tighten up the enforcement of existing laws requiring that immigrants not become a burden to society. You can click on the blue start button below to watch the segment in question.

CNN's Erin Burnett challenges acting US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on the Trump administration's new immigration regulation, saying her grandparents came to America with no education and that the rule would exclude people like her. pic.twitter.com/kyzZLpW5lj

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Burnett argued that her grandparents came to America with no education and that the rule would exclude people like them. Cuccinelli tore apart her argument, however, indicating that public charge rules applied to her legal immigrant relatives as well as his. In fact, the public charge rules existed at the same time as the stirring poetry on the Statue of Liberty. Cuccinelli pointed out that the impoverished huddled masses welcomed to America were Europeans who suffered from the restrictions of an ossified class-based society. According to Cuccinelli, the federal level public charge regulations were enacted a year prior to the completion of the Statue of Liberty.

Moreover, as one Twitter user observed, it seems disingenuous for Burnett to position her family and perhaps herself as poor beleaguered illegal immigrants just like those unlawfully coming across the border from Mexico. It is ironic because the Burnett family appears to have done well in the U.S. According to Wikipedia,

Burnett was born and raised in Mardela Springs, Maryland. She is the youngest daughter of Esther Margaret (née Stewart) and Kenneth King Burnett, a corporate attorney. She is of Irish and Scottish ancestry. Burnett attended St. Andrew's School, a private co-educational college preparatory boarding school in Middletown, Delaware, graduating in 1994. She returned to the school in 2009 to deliver the commencement speech. She then attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she studied political science and economics, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political economy. As an undergraduate, she played lacrosse and field hockey.

You can check out the Twitter comments going after Erin Burnett '98 below.  

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