Fox News show goes dark in middle of Sean Hannity’s anti-immigrant rant

Sean Hannity's opening monologue on Fox News suddenly went dark just as he was getting into the swing of an anti-immigrant rant.

On his show on Wednesday night, the conservative host took aim at Vice President Kamala Harris falsely claiming that she had allowed over 11 million “illegal immigrants” to enter the US.

“I pray to God I'm wrong,” he said, while touting unfounded claims that migrants with “known terror ties” from Iran, Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, China, Russia, and Venezuela, are «scheming future terror attacks on our homeland.”

Claiming Harris and President Joe Biden “will have blood on their hands,” he began playing a montage of Harris speaking at campaign events.

“The illegals that Kamala wants to decriminalize, provide free housing, healthcare, eduction, now tax payer-funded – ” Hannity said, before he was cut off and his feed turned black.

Viewers were left with just clips of the Democratic presidential nominee smiling as she addressed rally crowds.

After two minutes of commercials, Hannity suddenly reappeared on screen, saying “something knocked us off the air.”

He then said that the technical issue must have been caused by a “left-wing radical, liberal conspiracy” – before quickly clarifying for the “idiots in the media that will print that tomorrow,” that he was only joking.

Hannity’s anti-immigrant rhetoric echoes that made by many Republicans and right-wing figures, who have made a concerted effort to blame the Biden administration, and specifically Harris – who they branded the “border czar” – for the rise in immigration at the US’s southern border.

The unauthorized immigrant population in the US rose from 10.5 million to 11 million in 2022, according to the most recent data from the Pew Research