New York Times
By Trip Gabriel
August 25, 2015
A
journalist for the Spanish-language network Univision who asked Donald
J. Trump about immigration was mocked by the candidate, then escorted
out of a news conference
here on Tuesday evening.
Jorge
Ramos, an anchor for Univision news shows based in Miami, stood and
began asking a question just as Mr. Trump recognized another reporter.
“Excuse me, sit down.
You weren’t called,” Mr. Trump told him. “Sit down. Sit down.”
Mr.
Ramos asked Mr. Trump about his call to deport 11 million undocumented
immigrants in the country and build a wall the length of the Mexican
border.
“You haven’t been called, go back to Univision,” Mr. Trump said.
As
security officers approached Mr. Ramos, a Mexican-American, he said: “I
am a reporter. Don’t touch me. I have a right to ask the question.”
Mr.
Trump was silent as Mr. Ramos, an Emmy-winning journalist who was on
the cover of Time magazine’s World’s Most Influential People issue, was
removed from the room.
Several other journalists asked Mr. Trump why he refused to take
questions from Mr. Ramos. The billionaire real estate investor, who is
leading in Republican polls for the presidential nomination, said it was
because he had asked a question without being called
on.
In
an interview on CNN on Monday, Mr. Ramos accused Mr. Trump of
“spreading hate” with his calls for mass deportations of undocumented
families and repealing birthright
citizenship granted by the Constitution.
“This is personal,” Mr. Ramos told CNN. “When he’s talking about immigrants, he’s talking about me.”
About
15 minutes after his ejection on Tuesday, Mr. Ramos returned, and he
and Mr. Trump engaged in a long back-and-forth about Mr. Trump’s
immigration proposals, frequently
talking past each other.
Mr.
Ramos said that building a border wall would be futile because 40
percent of undocumented immigrants arrive by plane. “I don’t believe
it,” Mr. Trump said.
“How are you going to deport 11 million?” Mr. Ramos asked.
“Very humanely,” Mr. Trump said.
At
one point, Mr. Trump pressed Mr. Ramos to tell him how much Mr. Trump
was suing Univision for, after the network dropped coverage of Mr.
Trump’s Miss USA and Miss Universe
pageants because of his remarks about Mexican immigrants. Mr. Trump
answered his own question: $500 million.
Mr.
Trump insisted he would win the Latino vote. Mr. Ramos cited a poll
saying that 75 percent of Latinos hold an unfavorable opinion of him.
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