A CNN panel erupted Tuesday after far-left podcast host Leigh McGowan called repeated discussions of Americans killed by illegal immigrants "exhausting" after a conservative panelist raised the strangling death of Massachusetts woman Brianna Connolly by an illegal immigrant.The panel was discussing the death of Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old Haitian-born college student in Ohio whose family said he died by suicide Monday after being required to wear an ankle monitor after losing his Temporary Protected Status.Ohio State Highway Patrol said Bel died after walking into traffic on Interstate 70 and that the incident remained under investigation.If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255)."Well, temporary does mean temporary, so eventually this individual may have been ordered to be removed," The Federalist reporter Brianna Lyman said on the "NewsNight" panel.
"I think it's kind of insulting that we're talking about this immigrant instead of Brianna Connolly from Massachusetts who was strangled last week by an illegal alien.Why is the focus never…"The Federalist reporter Brianna Lyman clashed with PoliticsGirl host Leigh McGowan on CNN’s "NewsNight" after McGowan called repeated discussion of Americans killed by illegal immigrants "exhausting." (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)DAD OF GIRL LEFT PERMANENTLY DISABLED IN CRASH WITH ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT RIPS DEMS: ‘I REJECT YOUR SYMPATHY’McGowan interrupted Lyman as she mentioned Connolly’s killing."Oh my God!" she said.
"It’s so exhausting.Over and over again."Lyman immediately responded by contrasting McGowan’s frustration with the experiences of victims’ families."It’s exhausting for you because your daughter wasn't the one strangled," Lyman said.
"But it’s not exhausting for the parents of Americans who watch their children get murdered by illegal aliens."Lyman invoked the strangling death of Massachusetts woma...