The View’s Fake Republicans: ‘Nazi’ ICE Agents Have Underdeveloped Brains

Nicholas Fondacaro
January 28th, 2026 3:00 PM

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The fake Republicans of ABC’s The View did a lot of work to stand out during Wednesday’s episode. Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin lashed out at the agents by suggesting they had underdeveloped brains and that some played video games in their off time. Meanwhile, co-host Ana Navarro was far harsher with debunked accusations of CBP boss Greg Bovino wearing a “Nazi” uniform and framing ICE as “troops” who had “occupied” Minneapolis, Minnesota.

At one time, Farah Griffin would be the voice who would stand up for ICE by admitting that leftist extremists were trying to kill them and their families. She had since come out against the agency.

On Wednesday’s episode, she suggested their ranks were filled with undertrained 18-year-olds with underdeveloped brains. She morbidly admitted that she was okay with them being sent to fight in a war, but she didn’t want them doing law enforcement:

This is likely a result of ICE and CBP having shorter training standards. They basically want to surge these people into the streets. So, they have actually reportedly gone from five months of training down to six weeks or less. Sara has highlighted this before. That is unheard of in a major law enforcement capacity.

The recruiting at age 18. Which, yes, you can serve in the military but we talk about the frontal lobe is not fully formed at that age.

 

 

She would go on to decry how the agents getting substantial signing bonuses and how some of them would spend their down time playing video games. According to her, it all equaled deadly news:

They’re giving these massive bonuses of –signing bonus of $5,000 -- or 50,000. And leaning into recruiting people who are playing video games. Like, that is everything about this spells catastrophe. It spells there's going to be a mess in the streets.

For Navarro’s part, she was invoking rhetoric associated with war, such as calling Minneapolis “occupied and militarized” by "troops." She also pushed the debunked claim that Bovino was walking around the city dressed as a Nazi SS officer:

So, you double down, you send even more agents to Minneapolis, a city which has now been occupied and militarized for over two months. You tell them they are aloud to do anything they want, you send them out there with a leader, Greg Bovino, who's parading through the streets dressed in Nazi haute couture, and then you wonder why these horrible cases continue happening.

 

 

While usually quick to attack conservatives, Snopes had actually busted the outlandish claims about Bovino’s attire. They pointed out that all factions fighting in Europe had issued over coats, and that Bovino’s more closely matched what they U.S. troops were wearing, including the olive drab green and gold accents. Which also resembled normal Border Patrol uniforms.

As for remarks from their non-conservative co-hosts, Sunny Hostin was perplexed by America’s sudden interest in what was happening in Minneapolis. “Alex Pretti's death is such a horrible tragedy, but for some reason his death has shifted America's response to what is happening to Minnesota,” she said.

Seeing as she’s the most chronically racially aggrieved on the panel, her determination was that racism was behind it. According to her, Americans started caring because both Pretti and Renee Good were white (Click “expand”):

And it reminds me - and I think, Whoopi, you and I have talked about this - it reminds me of Mississippi Burning during the civil rights movement; when the FBI refused to open up an office in Mississippi to investigate all of the murders of civil rights workers. Right? The people that were trying - freedom riders, people that were trying to register people to vote.

Except when the two young white men from New York went down to Mississippi to help and they were murdered. And because of their murder, all of a sudden America got very, very engaged and interested in what was happening with racial violence and police violence. And I think this sort of harkens back to that time. People are seeing people that look like them being murdered in the street. And they are finding that if it happens to your neighbor, it can happen to you.

 

 

It’s unclear how Hostin’s deduction squared with the fact that many white people were spurred to action by the death of George Floyd, who was also in Minneapolis.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
January 28, 2026
11:04:42 a.m. Eastern

(…)

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: This is likely a result of ICE and CBP having shorter training standards. They basically want to surge these people into the streets. So, they have actually reportedly gone from five months of training down to six weeks or less. Sara has highlighted this before. That is unheard of in a major law enforcement capacity.

The recruiting at age 18. Which, yes, you can serve in the military but we talk about the frontal lobe is not fully formed at that age.

SUNNY HOSTIN: Not till 30.

FARAH GRIFFIN: They’re giving these massive bonuses of –signing bonus of $5,000 -- or 50,000.

HOSTIN: Yeah.

FARAH GRIFFIN: And leaning into recruiting people who are playing video games. Like, that is everything about this spells catastrophe. It spells there's going to be a mess in the streets.

(…)

11:06:50 a.m. Eastern

ANA NAVARRO: And you know, for me, it's also what they did and said after the death, the killing of Renee good where they said that these ICE agents, these federal agents have absolute immunity.

So, you double down, you send even more agents to Minneapolis, a city which has now been occupied and militarized for over two months. You tell them they are aloud to do anything they want, you send them out there with a leader, Greg Bovino, who's parading through the streets dressed in Nazi haute couture, and then you wonder why these horrible cases continue happening.

Donald Trump is saying he wants to de-escalate. Okay, well, then do it. Don't just say it. Do it. Take your troops out of Minneapolis. They've suffered enough.

(…)

11:08:44 a.m. Eastern

SUNNY HOSTIN: But I will say this, I think Pretti’s – Alex Pretti's death is such a horrible tragedy, but for some reason his death has shifted America's response to what is happening to Minnesota.

And it reminds me - and I think, Whoopi, you and I have talked about this - it reminds me of Mississippi Burning during the civil rights movement; when the FBI refused to open up an office in Mississippi to investigate all of the murders of civil rights workers. Right? The people that were trying - freedom riders, people that were trying to register people to vote.

Except when the two young white men from New York went down to Mississippi to help and they were murdered. And because of their murder, all of a sudden America got very, very engaged and interested in what was happening with racial violence and police violence. And I think this sort of harkens back to that time. People are seeing people that look like them being murdered in the street. And they are finding that if it happens to your neighbor, it can happen to you.

[Applause]

And I think that while tragic, his death will be the change in Minnesota, I really believe that.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: You know what, I --

HOSTIN: It was Scherner - Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman.

GOLDBERG: Yeah. And young Mr. Chaney.

HOSTIN: And Mr. Chaney. Yeah.

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