An argument between The View’s Ana Navarro and a black conservative pundit turned vicious on Wednesday, forcing CNN to abruptly go to a commercial break.

Navarro and Shermichael Singleton got into a shouting match as they discussed the case of undocumented migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration. 

‘If you come in illegally,  you have to leave. Americans are tired of that. We don’t have unlimited resources… we have to care for our own people,’ Singleton said.

‘There’s a hell of a lot of Americans, other than black people who were brought here as slaves, who came to this country illegally,’ Navarro replied.

But Singleton appears to have misheard Navarro and became furious at what he called a comparison between undocumented migrants and African Americans who are the descendants of slaves. 

‘They are not the same as Black people who were brought here against our will!’ he shouted. ‘They decide to walk their way across the border, there is a big difference!’

Phillips then chimed in to tell Singleton, ‘I think you actually misheard what she said.’

Navarro added: ‘You think I would say something like that after advocating for black people my entire life?’

But the argument continued to escalate, with Singleton sarcastically replying: ‘Great. Congratulations. Last time I checked, I‘m black. You‘re not, okay.’

Navarro fought back: ‘That’s right. I’m Latino and my people are being racially profiled.’

‘Do I have to remind you the history of my people? Do you really wanna go there?’ an agitated Singleton continued.

That’s when Phillips cut in to their shouting match and sent the cameras to commercial break.

The case of Obrego Garcia has been dividing the nation as Democrats demand he be brought back to Maryland and Republicans want him to stay in El Salvador, despite court orders saying he must return to the US.

President Trump has said he ‘could’ bring Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador if he wanted to. But he insists the 29-year-old Salvadoran, who had been living in Maryland and is married to an American citizen, is a member of the violent MS-13 gang and the kind of person who should not be allowed to live in the United States.

The Republican administration is dug in on its contention that the government should not have to repatriate Abrego Garcia. The Supreme Court has said the administration must work to bring back him back.

For weeks, officials alternated between admitting that Abrego Garcia was deported in error and arguing that the U.S. has no more power in the matter because he is now in El Salvador.

But Trump, told during an ABC News interview Tuesday marking his 100th day in office that he could use the telephone on his Oval Office desk to call El Salvador’s president and ask him to return Abrego Garcia, replied, ‘I could.’

‘And if he were the gentleman that you say he is, I would do that,’ Trump said. 

Police in Maryland had identified Abrego Garcia as an MS-13 gang member in 2019 based off his tattoos, Chicago Bulls hoodie and the word of a criminal informant. But Abrego Garcia was never charged. His attorneys say the informant claimed Abrego Garcia was in an MS-13 chapter in New York, where he’s never lived.

The gang identification by local police prompted the Trump administration to expel Abrego Garcia in March to an infamous El Salvador prison. But the deportation violated a U.S. immigration judge’s order in 2019 that protected him from being sent to El Salvador.

Abrego Garcia had demonstrated to the immigration court that he likely faced persecution by local Salvadoran gangs that terrorized him and his family, court records state. He fled to the U.S. at 16 and lived in Maryland for about 14 years, working construction, getting married and raising three kids.

Xinis ordered the Trump administration to return him nearly a month ago, on April 4. The Supreme Court ruled April 10 that the administration must work to bring him back.