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Television news host Geraldo Rivera on Thursday asked Birmingham business leaders to join him in urging President Bush to pardon the approximately 12 million immigrants living illegally in the country.
"Call off these raids and pardon these people, then go forward and help to heal the inequities and the other bureaucratic problems and irregularities with the immigration system," Rivera said.
Rivera, host of "Geraldo at Large" on Fox News Channel, told an audience of about 350 people at the Hispanic Business Council's annual breakfast that Bush should halt raids on plants employing illegal immigrants and issue the pardons in his last few months in office. Granting illegal immigrants some form of documentation would make them feel safer to report crimes, he said.
"I'm not saying even give them a path to citizenship - let the Congress work that problem out. Let the people of the United States voice their opinions on that," Rivera said, speaking at The Harbert Center downtown. "But for God's sake, do what you attempted to do in 2007 with your reform legislation."
U.S. immigration policy has been racist nearly from the beginning, he said, and there has never been a legal way for a large number of Mexicans to become U.S. citizens. Rivera also said he is distressed by the racist rhetoric of the immigration debate and accused members of the media, including rival network CNN's Lou Dobbs, of spreading misinformation about immigrants.
"Gerald" needs to shut up and educate himself on this issue instead of trotting out the over zealously used race card in lieu of any substantial defense of why America hates this invasion.
"Gerald" needs to shut up and educate himself on this issue instead of trotting out the over zealously used race card in lieu of any substantial defense of why America hates this invasion.
I could not agree more, JDubsMom
Geraldo is supposed to be a Investigative News Reporter . . . nothing more and nothing less, NOT A MEDIA HO.
I think she means the needy American citizens. You know, the former middle class who will be living in cardboard shacks under viaducts once all the illegals with 5th grade educations are given amnesty and need to be supported.
By the way.............I've got dibs on that heating grate near the Sheraton loading dock on Lower Wacker Drive. So don't even think about living there.
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