News anchor evicted from Trump event
Donald Trump ordered Univision anchor Jorge Ramos evicted from a news conference Tuesday as immigration continued to dominate the Republican presidential contest.
At the Dubuque, Iowa, event, Ramos stood without being called on and began asking about Trump’s proposals, which include ending birthright citizenship and deporting the estimated 11 million people who are in the U. S. illegally, along with their families. “You weren’t called,” Trump said. “Sit down.” Ramos continued to ask questions. “Go back to Univision,” Trump said. Then security escorted Ramos out of the room. When a reporter asked why he had Ramos removed, Trump said he didn’t know much about him. “I didn’t escort him out,” he said. “You’ll have to talk to security, whoever security is.”
Ramos was allowed to return, and the candidate called on him.
“How are you going to build a 1,900- mile wall?” Ramos asked, referring to Trump’s plan towall off the U. S.- Mexico border and make the Mexican government pay for it. “Very easy. I’m a builder,” Trump said. Ramos asked how Trump planned to deport everyone in the country who is here illegally. The real estate developer and former reality TV star said he’d do it in a “humane way.”
Trump invoked the issue of crime, which he has used as a wedge in the immigration debate.
Trump also reminded Ramos he was suing Univision for dropping Trump’s Miss Universe pageant after Trump described Mexicans in the U. S. illegally as rapists and drug runners.
On Tuesday, he softened that language. “Most of them are good people,” Trump said.