'Being infiltrated': Hasselbeck champions Noem's border crackdown, clashes with ‘The View’ co-hosts

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Back at 'The View' table, Elisabeth Hasselbeck forcefully defended President Trump's immigration policies and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday, March 4, sparking sharp exchanges with her co-hosts.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s return to 'The View' wasn’t a quiet one. Filling in as guest host, she quickly found herself in a full-throated debate over border enforcement, clashing with Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg and Sara Haines over whether Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign.

The debate followed outrage over the fatal shooting of citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by immigration agents - a case several co-hosts cited while criticizing the administration’s enforcement tactics under President Donald Trump.

Emily Hasselbeck sets the record straight

Hasselbeck’s central argument was that strong borders were a matter of basic security, no different from the precautions taken inside the television studio itself.

She suggested that critics of border enforcement still relied on security measures in their own daily lives. She turned to the audience and pointed out that every person present had gone through a screening before entering.

“We need a strong border, especially now with our current global situation,” she said.

"How many people in the audience here had to go through security to get here? Raise your hand. This is an authorized audience. They had to go through security to get right here, to hear us talk. We need strong borders more than ever right now. We are being infiltrated," Hasselbeck added.

Her point was that if security is expected in a studio, it should be expected at a nation’s borders.

“And we are in uncommon times, so we need to have uncommon sense about things like this,” she added.

“Yes, there will be mistakes made, but I think if Kristi Noem were up for promotion right now and she put forward the statistics that zero illegals released into the US for 10 months straight have not crossed”, said Hasselbeck.

Co-hosts clash over Minnesota killings

Sunny Hostin pushed back forcefully, focusing on the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. She highlighted the incident not as collateral damage but as criminal wrongdoing.

"We were not on the border when Renee Good and Alex Pretti were m******d, and death is not a mistake," Hostin said, adding that the deaths were deliberate killings.

Hostin also labeled Noem as “unqualified” and criticized what she described as a lack of empathy during congressional hearings - a charge Hasselbeck strongly disputed.

Hasselbeck responded by arguing that victims of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants also deserve acknowledgment.

When Hostin accused her of being dismissive, Hasselbeck rejected that characterization. “I’m not dismissive. I just said all of their lives matter,” she said.

Joy Behar tried to interrupt, but Hasselbeck kept going. “Hang on one second,” she said.

Behar then attempted to ground the discussion in data, but Hasselbeck countered by presenting her own numbers, arguing that the prior administration under Joe Biden had allowed widespread instability at the border.

She claimed that "450,000 children and families" were missing under Joe Biden. "We have now reunited 146,000 children with their families."

Hasselbeck closed her argument by acknowledging the human cost while maintaining that borders are necessary.

“I also believe that we have a God of borders,” she said. “We have a nation of borders for a good reason. I hate the fact that people are dying in this. My heart actually bleeds for this.”