The Ramos Rules, Pt. 2

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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In an interview with NPR's Terry Gross on Monday, Univision anchorman Jorge Ramos provided this explanation for his willingness to speak with people such as Donald Trump, Ann Coulter, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, and Fox newsman Sean Hannity, whose views on immigration he strongly opposes:

I am fully convinced, Terry, that we have to talk with those who don't agree with us in order to have comprehensive immigration reform at some point. If we don't talk to them, nothing is going to happen. … I have to talk with those who don't agree with me. Those who are actually giving Donald Trump ideas on what to say and what to do. … And I've spoken with many conservatives who don't agree with me. But I am convinced that if we don't have that dialogue nothing is going to be achieved.

As a longtime immigration reporter who has watched Ramos's newscast for many years, I would be more impressed with his journalistic bona fides if he spent some time talking with ordinary Americans. Or he could send his reporters to talk with ordinary Americans who feel that immigration, especially mass illegal immigration like what Arizona has experienced, has become disruptive in their communities.

Federal officials estimate that Arizona's illegal alien population grew from 89,000 in 1990 to 560,000 in 2008. The influx, mostly of poor and poorly educated people from Mexico, caused great stress for schools, neighborhoods, health care systems, and social services. Yet Ramos's newscast made almost no effort to understand this "other side of the story." preferring to focus on the immigrants as victims of the racist intolerance that Ramos sees as the fundamental motivation of those who oppose illegal immigration.

Ramos's highly promoted interviews with Trump, Coulter, and the like are good for Univision's ratings and for Ramos's celebrity as a self-styled fighter for the undocumented. But his failure to talk with ordinary Americans is bad for his viewers' understanding of this extraordinarily complex and important issue.

In other words, it is bad journalism. Ramos owes his viewers less sanctimonious posturing and more straight reporting. If he paid attention to the stories of ordinary people on the other side of the immigration debate, he would understand why Trump has surged in public opinion polls while public confidence in the federal government has sunk. It's an important story that Ramos — and therefore the viewers who depend on his news judgment — do not understand.

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  1. The Republicans, specifically the far Left Democrats have spent three decades rejecting to enforce the deportation laws. They are both in connivance in the damage of this once great nation. In 2008 the whole facade came to a head when the GOP establishment rebuffed in exposing the duplicity in both parties and the impostor who is too soft to run this country. We have seen it with countries who arm terrorists like IRAN. Now the GOP have placed us in danger of never winning any state or prescomment_IDential election again. There will surely be massive voter fraud on the part of the Democrats, who will utilize illegal aliens to vote in any election. Without some kind of official ID card, non citizens will use fraudulent absentee ballots or many other ways of cheating the system.

    The apportionment of seats in Congress is another paramount problem, that must be resolved. I heard that immigrants (and illegal aliens) in California are counted in the apportionment of seats. So with the overwhelming number of foreign nationals in California they gained extra seats, whereas small states as Wyoming receive fewer seats? This is very bad news for the GOP and this is a calculated by the Democrats who are deceiving us.
    Americans are not really aware, that the prescomment_IDent isn’t elected by a popular vote. The Oval office goes to the contender who wins the majority of the 538 Electoral College votes, and these “electoral” votes are not equal in every state, which is to me wrong. It gives states with millions of illegal aliens unfair advantage and cancels out the smaller states across the country. [b] IT COULD MEAN A ONE PARTY SYSTEM, WITH THE DEMOCRATS IN CHARGE? GOD HELP US![/b]

    The Republicans are not thinking straight as they are more interested in the cheap labor aspect of the invaders of our homeland. So could illegal immigrants and refugees help put Hillary Clinton in the White House next year? The answer is a huge Yes, because the nation’s Electoral College system is specifically made for Democrats when combined with the mass immigration policies since 1986 with the first Amnesty? The US immigrant population – legal and illegal – enlarged to a record 42.4 million in July of 2013, an amplified by 2.4 million since July of 2010. The 42.4 million is double the number in 1990, triple the number in 1980 and quadruple the number in 1970, according to Census data. That’s if you have credence in the Census numbers, which I don’t. Illegal aliens not tracked, no comment_content_IDentified by the Census takers could be in the millions?

    Many legislators think that the American peoples will comes second in issues. The Democrats have shown their true colors under King Obama, that they are more favorable to illegal aliens than our Vets, senior citizens and a portion of citizens surviving on a poverty level. The Republicans (not Tea Party) are accommodating Silicon Valley, Wall Street and their beloved wealthy donors.

    OUR SOLE CHANCE OF AMERICA BEING GREAT AGAIN FOR THE PEOPLE IS DONALD TRUMP.

    America is terminal under people like Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush who are begging for more money from their Special interests via their lobbyists, are going plaster the media with anti-Trump advertisements. [b]Then again I would never vote for an extreme Socialist/ secret communist as Bernie Sanders, who to impetus with his audiences give other peoples money to the deadbeats. [/b] I have found in my neighborhood that some of friends, even co workers have who never bothered to vote are for the first time going to register and vote for Donald Trump.

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