Newsweek editor gives Bill Maher headaches, gets Democrat guest to admit border wall may have helped illegal alien crisis

Batya Ungar-Sargon, Newsweek's opinion editor and author of "Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy," gave Bill Maher all sorts of headaches on "Real Time" Friday night, particularly when she got a former U.S. representative — a Democrat, no less — to admit a wall at the border with Mexico actually may have helped America's illegal alien crisis.

What are the details?

In one segment, Ungar-Sargon challenged Maher, asking him if he really believes America is better off now than in 2018.

"How were we worse?" Maher replied.

"Ask the American people," Ungar-Sargon answered back. "Inflation, immigration crisis, eight million people ... who cross [the border] illegally ... we don't know who they are. Crimes being committed. People can't afford homes because of the [high] mortgage rates."

Another program guest, former U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), tried to call out Ungar-Sargon by saying if former President Donald Trump "would've built the wall, maybe all these people wouldn't be coming over illegally."

Ungar-Sargon obviously wouldn't let that moment go.

"Oh, so you support building the wall?" she answered back, laughing.

Furiously digging his way out of the faux pas, Ryan somehow managed to declare that Ungar-Sargon "can't have it both ways. You're blaming [President Joe] Biden for [illegal] immigration. Trump said he was going to build a wall. He didn't do s**t!"

In another segment, Ungar-Sargon wasn't buying the idea that Biden may lose Michigan in the election due to the state's high Muslim population being angry that he's backing Israel in its war against Hamas.

"I think that the media really, really wants to put this narrative out there that Biden is going to lose Michigan over Gaza when the truth is he's going to lose Michigan over 600,000 auto workers because his EV market was extremely punishing to auto workers," she stated.

More from Ungar-Sargon:

There's been this big realignment where working-class Americans are very, very, very much on the Trump train: People who used to be Democrats and used to vote for Democrats. And rather than admit that — this outrage that Democrats lost the working-class vote — and try to figure out how we can appeal to them again, they're looking for excuses and other things to blame. Like ... this war in Gaza, or they'll call them deplorables, or they'll call them racists, you know, because they don't want to admit that Trump has picked up a lot of the policies that used to be Democratic policies in the '90s, like controlling the border, for example. The idea that an open border and mass migration is extremely punishing to the working class; it drives down their wages. It's class warfare against the working class. It is an upward transfer of wealth from the working class who end up competing with immigrants to the elites who end up employing them, and now they can employ cheap [labor] immigrants instead of having to pay working-class Americans a living wage.

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