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Comedian John Oliver Nails Border Solution: Entire HILARIOUS Video
HBO’s British-accented comedian John Oliver took on immigration reform last night, ranting for over ten minutes about America and immigration. Regardless which side of the border fence you’re on, his monologue is well worth watching amid the nation’s spirited immigration debate this week.
‘Undocumented Opinions’
Oliver’s starting point was how media jumped on the defeat of House Speaker Eric Cantor by libertarian, anti-immigrationist economics professor Dave Brat and declared, ”Immigration reform is dead . . . dead as a doornail . . . dead.”
Oliver dismantles that myth by pointing out that 65,000 primary voters in Virginia do not a mandate make.
He shows clips of “racists and anti-immigrant idiots in other countries,” Janet Allon for AlterNet reports.
“I come from England,” he points out. “It’s a national pastime hating immigrants.”
He then turns to “some of the absurd statements anti-immigrationists make here,” says AlterNet.
Dave Brat declared that, “We clearly can’t import 7 billion people into America,” to which Oliver points out. “No one is suggesting that.”
With all the misinformation, Oliver wonders if maybe we can build a protective barrier around ourselves against, “and this is going to sound a little racist,” he quips, “undocumented opinions.”
Sources: HBO, AlterNet, Crooks and Liars
