Media Matters – Buchanan said immigration will cause the “complete balkanization of America,” create “a giant Kosovo in the Southwest”

” Summary: On MSNBC’s Hardball and Scarborough Country, Pat Buchanan claimed that the number of immigrants entering the United States will cause the “balkanization of America” and will create “a giant Kosovo in the Southwest.” Buchanan’s warning that the Southwest “is going to secede” echoed claims by other conservative commentators that some Hispanics want to “reconquer” parts of the United States that were lost during the Mexican-American war.

On the June 5 editions of MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews and Scarborough Country, MSNBC political analyst and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan claimed that the number of immigrants entering the United States will cause the “complete balkanization of America” and will create “a giant Kosovo in the Southwest.” On Hardball, Buchanan claimed that “what’s coming is the complete balkanization of America” whereby the United States will be separated “by ethnicity and culture, and language, and every other way” and will not be “like the country you and I grew up in,” which was “monocultural.” Similarly, on Scarborough Country, Buchanan claimed: “You’re going to have a giant Kosovo in the Southwest, which de facto is going to secede from this country.”"

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