Martin Sheen Blames U.S. for Ruining Central America, Causing Immigration

Martin Sheen Blames U.S. for Ruining Central America, Causing Immigration (NewsBusters)

Appearing as a guest on Monday's Tavis Smiley show on PBS, liberal actor Martin Sheen claimed that the United States is to blame for causing so many immigrants to leave Central American countries and travel to the U.S. as he complained about past interventions in some of those countries. The liberal actor concluded that "we're looking at what we have wrought."

His comments came during a discussion after host Smiley brought up President Donald Trump's recent decision to end the DACA program that benefits young illegal immigrants. After Sheen commented that it is important to "defend these young people," the PBS host suggested that there is "hatred" for illegal immigrants as he followed up:

Take me back -- I want to juxtapose or have you juxtapose for me, Martin, the hatred that you had to endure when you started out as an actor all those years ago. And that name -- Ramon Estevez -- didn't serve you so well. Juxtapose the hatred that you experienced then with the same kind of hatred that you see this week -- that you've seen this week that's been, you know, applied against the very same people.