It’s been more than a week since the Biden administration recently announced the construction of sections of border wall that would close the infamous “Yuma Gap” in southern Arizona. And the media’s most forceful opponent of anything resembling border enforcement, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, has yet to weigh in on the matter. This double standard is evident.
This is the same Jorge Ramos, after all, that staged a confrontation with Donald Trump and bellowed, “you cannot build a 1900-mile wall”. Remember?
PETER MANSBRIDGE (CBC): What made you decide to travel to Iowa in order to face Donald Trump?
JORGE RAMOS, UNIVISION: As you know, television… television doesn’t happen. Television is made. Television is made. We brought three cameras with us, microphones and spoke to Donald Trump. We also had to confront Donald Trump. This was my purpose. I am a journalist.
MANSBRIDGE – A confrontation.
RAMOS: He wanted me to ask many questions but (…) it would be confrontational.
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MANSBRIDGE: You keep calling it questions, your “questions”, where in fact you didn’t ask a question. They’re statements, not questions.
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MANSBRIDGE – You cannot deport 11,000,000 people
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RAMOS: You can not deport 11 million… you can not deport 11 million people.
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MANSBRIDGE: You can not deport 11 million… you can not deport 11 million people
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RAMOS: A wall of 1900 miles is impossible to build.
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MANSBRIDGE
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RAMOS: Children in this country cannot be denied citizenship.
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RAMOS: He stated that he wanted to deport 11,000,000 people and create a wall and then deny citizens citizenship.
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RAMOS. We believed that there would not be many journalists following the candidate in Dubuque. It was correct. We arrived two hours earlier, brought three cameras and made plans. To ensure that my voice was at the same pitch as his, I would wear a microphone.
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DONALD TRUMP: No, you haven’t, you haven’t been called.
RAMOS: I have… I have the right to ask a question. It is…no. That is the problem. You can not deport 11 million… you can not deport 11 million people. A wall of 1900 miles is impossible. It is not possible to deny children citizenship in this country.
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RAMOS: Once we’d positioned the cameras and the lighting were right, then I started to plan. (…) Everything was planned.
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RAMOS: TV, television doesn’t happen. You create it. You produce it. But it doesn’t always happen that way. And that’s exactly what we did. (…) It was necessary to confront him.
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CHRIS CUOMO of CNN: It was your desire to take on him in a fight and you were successful.
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RAMOS: Our response to Donald Trump will determine how journalists are judged.
Lots of “questions”. There was much confrontation. It all based on the notion that border enforcement as it is represented by the wall is racist and ineffective. There were other opinion columns that included hits such as:
Jorge Ramos has poured a lot ink praising the idea of building a border wall and denouncing it as racist, useless or both. But where are the opinion columns now that Joe Biden is building a “useless” wall? There isn’t a single one. Crickets. Nothing. It was as if walls were no longer evil or useless when the clock struck noon on January 20, 2021.
Ramos’ Trump-era gimmick was built on the idea of standing opposed to power, regardless of who was in power, and consistently asking tough questions. It was always a farce, much more so now that Donald Trump is out of office.
It’s clear, it doesn’t matter who holds power. Jorge Ramos’ silence in the face of Joe Biden’s wall proves it.
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