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Tucker Carlson defends ‘poorer and dirtier’ comments as more sponsors drop out

On Monday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, the host doubled-down on controversial comments he made regarding immigration on December 13th, as the number of advertisers pulling ads from his show continues to rise.“As an economic matter, this is insane,” Carlson said last Thursday. “It’s indefensible so nobody even tries to defend it. Instead our leaders demand that you shut up and accept this. ‘We have a moral obligation to admit the world's poor,’ they tell us. Even if it makes our own country poorer and dirtier and more divided.”During Monday's response to those comments, Carlson slightly tweaked what he was saying by adding that he was referencing Tijuana, Mexico, based on a story he was reporting at the time about the migrant “caravan chaos” that is allegedly happening there. “The left says we have a moral obligation to admit the world's poor, even if it makes our own country more like Tijuana is now, which is to say poorer and dirtier and more divided. That's what we said. It's true," Carlson said on Monday.

At least nine sponsors have pulled ads from Carlson’s primetime Fox News show, including Bowflex, Pacific Life and Nerdwallet, with the latest being Ancestry.com, Jaguar Land Rover and IHOP. Other companies like Bayer, John Deere and Farmers Insurance are reportedly staying put for now. And Carlson has made it clear that he is not backing down.“It's a tactic, and a well-worn one,” Carlson said of the outcry over his statements. “Nobody thinks it's real and it won't work with this show. We’re not intimidated. We plan to try to say what's true until the last day. The truth is: unregulated mass immigration has badly hurt this country's natural landscape.”Carlson went on to highlight parts of Arizona near the border that are filled with trash, allegedly left by migrants. And he suggested that the left is profiting from the current immigration policy, so they just want the media to “shut up and move on.”“Those who won't shut up get silenced. You have seen it a million times, it happens all the time,” Carlson said. “The enforcers scream ‘racist’ on Twitter, until everyone gets intimidated and changes the subject to the Russia investigation or some other distraction.”Tucker Carlson Tonight airs weeknights at 8 p.m. on Fox News.Watch Fox News host, Jesse Watters, read text messages from his left-leaning mother:

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