Who died and left Bill O’Reilly of Fox News in charge? Who told him it was his job to determine who “deserves” to be here in the United States?
After President Obama made his Executive action known to the American people Thursday night, Bill O’Reilly invited an undocumented journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas, on his Fox show to talk about the the president’s immigration decision.
O’Reilly ran through Vargas’s background as an immigrant who came to the United States from the Philippines at age 12 and then worked on a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post team before publicly revealing his undocumented status.
“Surely you understand how millions of Americans say ‘You know what, bad behavior is being rewarded’ … but there are a lot of people who aren’t of your circumstance, who came here in devious ways, who did things they shouldn’t have done, who didn’t contribute to our society,” O’Reilly said. “Yet they’re in the same blanket. So how do you justify that?”
“I don’t know if people know this, but more than half of undocumented people in this country have been here for 10 years or longer,” Vargas responded. “This has been our home, this is where we go to school, this is where we work, this is where we go to church, this is what we call to be our own communities.”
Vargas lamented that the President’s immigration actions were so politicized before O’Reilly cut in to tell him the real “deal.”
“It is a compassionate move, but it may not be a just move because you and the other people here illegally don’t deserve to be here,” O’Reilly said. “That’s harsh. It’s harsh, okay, but you don’t have an entitlement to be here.”
“Sir, I don’t feel entitled to be here,” Vargas responded. “I don’t ask for any sort of entitlement. All I know is this is where I grew up, this is my home, my family is here.”
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O”Reilly and his “entitlement” garbage…..Frank Luntz should be shot for all his word games….and those on the Right cling to every word that is spoken on FOX.