Posted on 07/01/2015 7:53:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ann Coulter and Geraldo Rivera clashed on Tuesday night over illegal immigration and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trumps controversial claim that Mexico is sending people that have lots of problems to America.
When Mexico sends its people, theyre not sending their best, Trump said when announcing his candidacy. Theyre sending people that have lots of problems, and theyre bringing those problems with us. Theyre bringing drugs. Theyre bringing crime. Theyre rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
Coulter, who takes a hard line on illegal immigration, didnt defend Trump directly but said she believes the government should be using the immigration system to benefit American citizens.
These are not people who have a right to be here, so I dont care if there are two rapists. I dont care if there are two people coming in who are collecting [benefits], she said. Immigration is a government policy like any other, and it ought to be used to benefit the people already living here.
Coulter also pushed back against Riveras claim earlier this week that illegal immigrants have a lower crime rate than American citizens.
The idea that immigrants are creating crime at a lower rate than the native population is preposterous, she said, My complaint was that the government wont simply count and tell us, so whatever facts there are its always people looking at ancillary facts.
Rivera hit back, calling Coulters premise as well as the title of her new book, Adios, America! an insulting insinuation that Latinos are somehow going to pervert and drag down and degrade the America we all know and love.
This is an insult, he said, going on to claim that the big cities that are known to have an illegal immigrant presence now have lower crime levels
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
In WA State in my county, the police don’t seem to bother arresting illegals for any crime, including murder.
Last week a group of five Hispanics surrounded a car in the mall parking lot and shot the driver four times. The police gave out the name and address of the female witness but no description of the gang that did the shooting.
Before that, about an year and a half ago, there was a drug shoot out in Lynden, between some White losers and some Hispanic drug dealers. One White kid was killed and the Hispanics took off in a car, driven by a Bellingham girl. The bullet riddled car ended up parked on our street. For different neighbors called the police and reported it before seven AM. The shooting happened around midnight. The police REFUSED to even come out and look at the car. There was an APB out on the car and they wouldn’t look at it because they said it was a private road and the car was not reported stolen.
Then, before that, an illegal ran over killed a homeless veteran. The police had his name and license number, but they said that they would get him if he came back to town.
We can’t send anybody back because there is no border....its like trying to bail out water without plugging the hole, the water just comes back in.
And we know for sure that the GOP will not build a fence because when we had both the HOuse and Senate AND BUSH IN THE WHITE HOUSE.....they still didn’t build it.
Soooo.......only one person says they will build a fence, right? Or is there more than one?
Which takes no account of the costs involved in a.) educating the children, b.) depressed wages (or lack of wages) suffered by American citizens because of the illegals, c.) depressed property values associated with housing containing illegals.
Moreover, Rivers obviously is unaware of the practice -- initiated by the Clinton administration -- of sending the proceeds from SSI payments by illegals to the Mexican government.
Interesting point. Not sure if I can stomach it at the end of the day though. LOL
Coulter could have creamed him if she really let go.
Whorealdo should know better than to debate with someone with a keen mind who did a year of research and then wrote a fact-filled book on the segment's topic.
Of course, nothing stops the unstoppable, rhino-skinned Rivera....he just doubles down in rebuttal with torrents of exhausting platititudes and provable lies that has the viewer/listener beating his/her feet to the kitchen for a glass of milk and some oreos to enjoy till he's thankfully off the screen.
Leni
We all need to work on our language.....these people are not immigrants, nor are the undocumented workers.....or any of the other terms the left uses to mask what they really are........
They are “criminal invaders” period......
Deportation-in-Place.
You've been deported to the Democrat/GOPe vision for America.
Later
I’ve often thought real reason lefties keep REAL conservatives off TV is because they know their arguments will be destroyed. As I always tell Libs let’s bring your argument to its logical conclusion and they end up with egg on their face.
Nice. Two media whores in a catfight.
May I add the removal of the American flag so it will not offend Hispanics...on American soil...
Although some of Geraldo’s analyses are quite astute, he is inconsistent and has blinders on to the point of irrationality when it comes to the issue of illegal immigration or indeed anything that pertains to Hispanics. He, like many on the Left, typifies an Emperors New Clothes society in which reality truly is a social construction. Having read Ann Coulter’s new book, I found it to be very convincing—and also consistent with and supportive of the “controversial” statements that Donald Trump has been making recently.
“Moreover, Rivers obviously is unaware of the practice — initiated by the Clinton administration — of sending the proceeds from SSI payments by illegals to the Mexican government.”
So I guess this went on during the Bush administration as well—doesn’t surprise me.
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