A longtime North Carolina State play-by-play announcer has been suspended indefinitely after commenting on “illegal aliens” while announcing the score of a bowl game in El Paso, Texas, during the Wolfpack’s game against Maryland in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl on Dec. 30.
Gary Hahn made the comment as Maryland beat North Carolina State 16-12 in the game in Charlotte.
“In the Sun Bowl and amongst all the illegal aliens down in El Paso, it’s UCLA 14 and Pittsburgh 6. That’s with 11:15 to go in the second quarter,” Hahn said.
He was later disciplined by N.C. State broadcast rightsholder Learfield Communications, which is his employer.
In a statement to ESPN, Learfield Communications said it has “suspended Wolfpack Sports Network Play-by-Play announcer Gary Hahn from his agreement indefinitely following comments made during today’s Duke’s Mayo Bowl radio broadcast.”
Hahn has worked as the radio voice for North Carolina State since the 1990-91 season and was named NC Sportscaster of the Year in 2010 and 2020. Before joining the North Carolina state, Hahn worked as a sports reporter/anchor for NBC Radio Network in New York City and WLWI-TV in Indianapolis., Deadline reports.
The Epoch Times has contacted Gary Hahn for comment.
El Paso Declares State of Emergency
Hahn’s comments came shortly after El Paso officials declared a state of emergency as illegal aliens continue to cross into the city from Mexico seeking asylum.
Earlier on Dec. 21, Sun Bowl Association executive director Bernie Olivas announced that the Bowl had canceled its annual “fan fiesta”, scheduled for Dec. 29, because the city’s convention center is temporarily being used to house migrants currently waiting to hear the results of immigration applications.
According to El Paso officials, thousands of illegal aliens are waiting at the southern border to cross into the United States once the Title 42 immigration policy, which was initially scheduled to expire on Dec. 21, comes to an end.
Title 42 was invoked by former President Donald Trump in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The policy, which was implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, allows border agents to expel illegal aliens immediately without asylum processing if they are deemed to pose a health threat.
The Supreme Court recently temporarily halted its expiration, voting 5–4 to allow it to remain in place, and the policy now remains in limbo pending legal challenges.
El Paso Residents Scared Amid Migrant Crisis
Earlier on Dec. 28, El Paso City Council member Claudia Rodriguez said in an interview that residents of El Paso have been struggling with the influx of illegal aliens and that more resources are desperately needed to manage the crisis.
“It’s frightening what’s happening in El Paso, not only for the community because we’re not used to this,” Rodriguez told Fox News. “Even though we are a border city, we’re not used to this type of environment where we just see people running across our freeways and running into our backyards. It’s very scary. People are sleeping on our streets. It’s completely out of the normal and, again, there is no plan moving forward.”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have confirmed that a giant tent facility is being erected in El Paso to accommodate approximately 1,000 migrants while they are processed.
However, Rodriguez told Fox News that the tent is unsustainable, given the large numbers of immigrants attempting to cross the border, and called on the Biden administration to do more.
Fox News predicts that roughly 5.1 million illegal aliens will cross the southern border into the U.S. every year once Title 42 is lifted.
“I don’t see this really going anywhere other than more shelter, more shelter, more shelter, but really it’s not securing our border,” Rodriguez said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
“Fox News predicts that roughly 5.1 million illegal aliens will cross the southern border into the U.S. every year once Title 42 is lifted.
“I don’t see this really going anywhere other than more shelter, more shelter, more shelter”
Now just whole do you think will be paying for the total support of these millions and millions of Democrat Party encouraged illegal immigrants??
This is why the Democrat Party wants to hire 87,000 more IRS agents. to milk every dime they can from WE the U.S. citizens! 🙁 🙁 🙁
When it gets to the point that commentators get in trouble or fired for speaking the American truth, then the country has been lost to the thought police, the very ONLY police who are most in need of being defunded down to ground zero in unconstitutional theft of our first amendment right of free speech. These unvetted border jumping people are ALIEN, ILLEGAL, and LAWBREAKERS. ANY company who disciplines an employee for speaking it has no concept of what the Latin origin of the word discipline means,,i.e. “Teach, Correct” and should pay legal fines so high that their noses bleed. The Democrat party should also be paying through the nose for ILLEGALLY bringing in 2-3 million law breakers without creating 2-3 million new residences already built to house, feed, and medicate them. Sane countries close their borders during pandemics to save their own people. Democrats only do what they do in opening the borders to enrich their own party and the people who belong to it, and would shut down our freedoms to speak truths in order to get the job done, and the taxpayer money redistributed from the earners to the consumers, or from the tax payers to the tax abusers.
AND WHY would someone be fired for SPEAKING THE TRUTH?
>> Now just whole do you think will be paying for the total support of these millions and millions of Democrat Party encouraged illegal immigrants?? <<
Well, it won't cost the taxpayers anything, 'cause the guummint will pay for it. (chuckle, chuckle.)
North Carolina State should now offer their football stadium, campus and dormitories as shelters for the illegal aliens they don’t believe to be so illegal; especially since El Paso does not have the capacity nor resources to do so.
IF i had my way, THEY WOULD GET NO CHOICE in the matter. Wall the campus off from everything, and AIR DROP VIA helos, ALL THE Illegals we grab.. And just leave them there. DON’T even let the student body or admin, leave before hand.
Woke and politically correct Learfield—you are a total embarrassment.
Just more Democrat “Shelter Skelter” created by the Helter Skelter Charlie Manson lawless leaders of the Democrat party whose indoctrinated invading illegal alien minions do not hesitate to enter your homes and molest or murder you like Charlie’s minions did to Sharon Tate, but now they the politically organized and election stolen empowered send whole armies of darkness at once, to the El Paso Democrat “Valley of the Dolls” and other interior American homes, with no need to cut out the baby like Manon’s minions did to Sharon’s in 1969. Their life destroying political acts have already accomplished the deed 60 million times over with abortion by 2023. They would turn us all as insane as Roman Polanski, and just as mentally and emotionally scarred and disoriented for future control via fear.
The man spoke the truth. Goes to show you where that gets you these days. At least he didn’t call them criminals or wetbacks
nc state , duke and unCheat are in the liberal hell triangle of socialist communist that have ruined the state of north carolina.
I am shocked this insanity is going on, in Such a red state… OR IS IT ONCE again, the curse of LIBTARD COLLEGE TOWNS!
And the illegals are laughing at the once great USA.
He should be discplined for using the wrong words, illegal aliens my rearend, they are illegal invaders. As my father used to say before he became a citizen (long before my sister and I were born): “Aqui sin papeles/documentos nomas somos mojados” – “here without papers/documents we are only wetbacks”. Oh how true his words were/are still today. It took them over 7 years and many sacrificies but they wanted citizenship before children.
THEY ARE invaders, pure and simple.
Folks don’t realize we lost this country many years ago.
in Miami, there are places that will not speak english. you will be told to learn their language . same thing in parts of california
Unfortunatley its also that way in many areas in AZ, TX and NM..
Everyone take a step back, and a deep breath. Now let it out slowly. The man was hired to do a play-by-play, not a political column. Yes, he’s entitled to his freedom of speech, but there is such a thing as the right time and place. While I agree with the announcer’s opinion, a play-by-play of a college sporting event was not the right time and place to insert a political statement. There, that should get me more “one-stars” than I’ve ever had.
Even better, it got me more “no stars” than ever.