SNL's Fox News pundits want you terrified of the 'vicious caravan' heading 'straight for you and your grandchildren'

last updated 4 November 2018

Saturday Night Live took aim in the cold open this week at Fox News' coverage of the migrant caravan making its way through Mexico. Kate McKinnon anchored the segment as Laura Ingraham, reporting on this "vicious caravan of dozens, maybe millions of illegal immigrants" heading "straight for you and your grandchildren."

From fellow Fox talking head Jeannine Pirro (Cecily Strong), Ingraham learns the caravan is chock full of "ISIS" and "Aladdins," who arrived via the "very common direct flight from Iran to Guatemala."

Kenan Thompson also shows up as former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke, warning that if "these immigrants walk at a normal pace of 300 miles a day, they could be here in time to vote on Election Day."

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But the most questionable detail of all may be the caravan footage Ingraham and her guests provide, which feels ... just a little off, somehow. See it in the full sketch below. Bonnie Kristian

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.