Arnold Schwarzenegger has had his say on the ongoing ICE deportation crisis in Los Angeles, with people taking to the streets of LA earlier this month to campaign against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) department’s raids of numerous workplaces in the area while searching for alleged immigration violations.
In case you didn’t know, Arnold served as Governor of California from 2003 to 2011 as a Republican, and during an appearance on The View on Tuesday, he was asked how he would handle the situation if he were still in power.
He went on to say that “immigration reform” is key going forward, explaining: “For decades now, this country has needed immigration reform, which means we recognize the fact there’s people in the south of America that want to come north to work, and we therefore should supply them with enough visas to come because we need those workers.”
Panelist Joy Behar then asked Arnold if he had a “visceral reaction” to videos of what ICE is doing to immigrants, considering he is an immigrant himself. If you need reminding, Arnold was born in Austria in 1947, and moved to California to fulfill his bodybuilding dream in 1968, at age 21, with the star admitting that he spoke little English when he first emigrated.
“I’m so proud and happy to [have been] embraced by the American people like that,” Arnold said in response to Joy’s question. “Imagine, I came over here at the age of 21 with absolutely nothing, and then to create a career like that? I mean, in no other country in the world could you do that.”
“Those people that are doing illegal things in America and that are foreigners, they are not smart, because when you come to America, you’re a guest, and you have to behave like a guest,” Arnold explained.
“When I go to someone’s house and I’m a guest, then I’ll do everything I can to keep things clean and to make my bed and do everything that’s the right thing to do rather than committing a crime or being abusive or something like that,” he said. “That doesn’t really work in this country.
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