Geraldo blew up today on The Five over at how he says the migrants are being treated at the border, saying we’re treating them like zombies from the Walking Dead. He was asked about the media response this weekend and essentially whether they are telling the truth. But he refused to “make it a media issue”, as he put it, and lambasted the way we both talk and treat the migrant mob.
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Via Mediaite, her’s what Geraldo said about the migrants:
This goes to my soul. Fulfilling my role as the designated piñata on Fox News, I wanna say I am ashamed. This teargas choked me. We treat these people — these economic refugees — as if they’re zombies from The Walking Dead. We arrested 42 people, eight of them were women with children! We have to deal with this problem humanely and with compassion! These are not invaders. Stop using these military analogies. This is absolutely painful to watch!
We are a nation of immigrants. These are desperate people. They walked 2,000 miles. Why?! Because they want to rape your daughter or steal your lunch?! No. Because they want a job! They want to fill the millions of unfilled jobs we have in the agricultural sector. They want to wash dishes in the restaurants. They wanna deliver the pizzas. For goodness sake! Can’t we suspend our humanity when it comes to this issue? And I fear that it is because they look different than the mainstream.
I love how Gutfeld responded, pointing out that while plenty of the migrants are good people, they are being used and manipulated to create societal angst. As an analogy, Gutfeld asked what if a group of people hypnotized a bunch of people to rob a bank. He said it wouldn’t be the security guard’s fault that these people robbing his bank had been hypnotized. His point being that it’s not Trump’s fault that these people marched 2,000 miles to the border, but that he must respond with law or else this will continue to happen.
But let’s be honest. They aren’t all as Geraldo claims. How can he so readily dismiss the people throwing rocks at the border patrol? Five hundred tried to breach the border! Those aren’t peaceful migrants trying to get a better life. That’s a bunch of violent thugs trying to break in, just as they did when entering into Mexico. And we’re not supposed to use tear gas to disperse them? C’mon dude. Be serious.
You can have all the compassion in the world for people but you have to uphold the law. Trump is doing that and there’s not a thing wrong with it.
Watch the video for much more, as others weigh in on Geraldo’s comments.