CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, and Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, both reacted to Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino denouncing those who have compared ICE and Border Patrol to the Gestapo by trying to argue the comparisons are legitimate.
The background for all the anti-ICE rhetoric was the Saturday shooting of Alex Pretti, but instead of waiting for an investigation to take its course or commenting on the specifics of this case, they tried to put it into a wider pattern. Stewart began by playing a clip from a recent Bovino press conference where he said, “Politicians, community leaders, and some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric…Calling law enforcement names like Gestapo.”
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