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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJorge Ramos tells Bill O’Reilly his border idea is “absurd” and “useless”
The Univision star treats the Fox News blowhard's ideas about immigration with the proper level of respectELIAS ISQUITH
Joining ill-informed xenophobe and noted fiction author Bill OReilly for his Fox News show on Tuesday, Univisions star anchor Jorge Ramos inevitably found himself in the position of explaining to Papa Bear why his ideas about how to secure the U.S.s southern border are terrible and wrong.
After explaining to OReilly what it was like to swim across the Rio Grande (as many people illegally entering the U.S. in order to escape violence in Central America do, despite the risk of drowning), Ramos noted that most of the young people who have arrived at the border have risked their lives to do so because they believe the U.S. will not deport children.
O.K., OReilly said, with evident condescension, but we do and we will. Ramos then noted how, relatively speaking, very few children are deported by U.S. authorities, a fact that OReilly proclaimed will have to change, because the unintended consequences are overwhelming.
Attempting to buttress his point, OReilly argued that nearly the entirety of Central and South America is falling apart and overrun by gangs, and that as a consequence the U.S. simply cannot absorb all the worlds children.
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Jorge Ramos tells Bill O’Reilly his border idea is “absurd” and “useless” (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jul 2014
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tularetom
(23,664 posts)1. If O'Reilly wants to stop the flood of Central American refugees to the US all he needs to do
is urge the US government to stop supporting right wing anti democratic regimes in the region.
Oh, and give up the idiotic "war on drugs". Talk about unintended consequences.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)2. Ramos was talking to loofahman.
UTUSN
(70,686 posts)3. R#3 & K n/t