Charles Barkley tees off on alleged treatment of 'amazing immigrants'

Basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley utilized a conception astir UConn Huskies prima Alex Karaban to spell connected a governmental rant during CBS’ broadcast of March Madness connected Sunday.

CBS featured Karaban successful a portion astir his family. His mother, Olga, came to Massachusetts from Ukraine with her parents and grandparents successful 1996. His father, Alexei, immigrated to the U.S. from Belarus connected a enactment visa successful 2001.

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UConn guardant Alex Karaban (11) speaks during a property league up of a crippled against Duke successful the Elite Eight of the NCAA assemblage hoops tourney Saturday, March 28, 2026, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

After the conception aired, Barkley lamented the alleged attraction of ineligible immigrants.

"I privation to beryllium cautious with my words close present due to the fact that this is simply a truly touchy taxable for me," helium said. "I emotion that kid and his family, but the mode immoderate of these different immigrants are getting treated successful our state close present is simply a travesty and a disgrace. I deliberation there’s a quality betwixt astonishing immigrants and transgression immigrants. I deliberation what’s going connected successful our country, what we’re doing to immoderate of these astonishing immigrants, is truly unfortunate and it’s truly sad.

"And that’s a large migrant story. We person a batch of large migrant stories retired determination that their stories request to beryllium told but immoderate of the worldly that’s happening to immigrants successful our state close present is truly unfortunate and it’s truly unfair. But immigrants built this state and we should respect them and respect them."

Former NBA subordinate Charles Barkley during a pro-am anterior to Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard astatine Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club & Lodge connected March 4, 2026 successful Orlando, Florida. (Tracy Wilcox/PGA TOUR via Getty Images)

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Barkley didn’t mention immoderate illustration of ineligible immigrants being treated poorly successful the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has routinely announces arrests of transgression amerciable immigrants who person been accused of heinous crimes successful the U.S.

Still, DHS and agencies similar Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) routinely travel nether occurrence for their tactics successful arresting amerciable immigrants.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani offered caller disapproval of ICE up of a "No Kings" rally.

"We're making wide that nary 1 is supra the instrumentality successful this city, that everyone has to travel the regularisation of law," Mamdani said. "I person made wide to the president, some successful our backstage conversations and our nationalist conversations, astir the information that I judge that ICE is simply a rogue agency."

Protesters clasp up a "Stop ICE" motion aft being removed from the gathering by Seattle Police during a bill-signing lawsuit with Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson regarding limiting facial coverings connected instrumentality enforcement officers and making it a transgression to impersonate a bid officer, Thursday, March 19, 2026, successful Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

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Mamdani added that helium believes ICE is "reckless" and "delivers thing toward the furthering of the origin of nationalist safety."

Fox News’ Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.

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