Overview
- On the Jan. 19 CNN NewsNight panel, Cameron Kasky objected to Scott Jennings using the term “illegals” and said his job required becoming “increasingly demented.”
- Jennings defended the wording as aligned with legal terminology and said he would continue to use it.
- The pair argued over Kasky’s claim that ICE is targeting natural-born U.S. citizens, a claim Jennings repeatedly denied.
- After the broadcast, Jennings doubled down in a post on X, criticizing attempts to police his language.
- The segment took place as panelists discussed the deployment of roughly 3,000 federal agents in Minnesota following ICE agent Jonathan Ross’s fatal shooting of Renee Good.