Nikki Haley Previously Said Americans Should Not Call Illegal Aliens ‘Criminals’ Because It’s ‘Disrespectful’ and ‘They’re Not’
Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at the Republican Party of Iowa’s 2023 Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa, Friday, July 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley previously said that Americans should not call illegal aliens “criminals” because “they’re not” and it’s “disrespectful.”
Haley made the comments while she was the governor of South Carolina in July 2015, during a panel for the Aspen Institute.
The panel took place about one month after former President Donald Trump announced his candidacy.
“As a family of immigrants from India, how does that inform your thinking on the immigration debate and what do you feel about the tone of the immigration debate as it has recently turned?” then-Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson asked Haley.
