Jorge Ramos: Donald Trump’s Plan To Build a Wall Is ‘Absurd’

‘It’s absurd and unnecessary because almost 40% of immigrants come by plane

BERMAN: “Let's get perspective on this now from Jorge Ramos, who is an anchor of Univision News and Fusion, he was for months been trying to get an interview with Donald Trump. Jorge, you know, we just heard Donald Trump over the weekend, he was again pushed for specifics about his immigration plan. You raised a lot of doubts about that plan and what's inside it. And you say that in your opinion, it is just all wrong. How so?” 
RAMOS: “Exactly. And it is only empty promises. What he is trying to sell that you talked, yes, he is trying to sell to the American public simply doesn't work. It's impossible. He cannot deport 11 million people from this country. Can you imagine? Let's take for a moment. Let's imagine how is he going to deport 11 million people, by bus, by plane? Is he going to bring the Army to do that? Can you imagine the human rights violations that that would create? And then the expense? We are talking about, according to an ICE estimate, about $12,500 per immigrant. So is he willing to spend $137 billion to deport 11 million people from this country? That is one problem. He can't build a 1,900 mile border between Mexico and the United States, and it is absurd. It is an expense that is completely unnecessary, because almost 40 percent of all immigrants come by plane, they overstay their visas. And of course, he cannot deny citizenship to the children born here to undocumented parents, for one very simple reason. That's the Constitution, the 14th Amendment. So, everything that Donald Trump is trying to sell is false. It's not going to work. And it is impossible with the Trump presidency that it could be done.” 

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