Garvin Oliver
MRC Latino intern
FELIX DE BEDOUT, NEWS ANCHOR, UNIVISION: The federal government tries to establish a strong anti-immigrant policy as do politicians and legislators.
ILIA CALDERON, NEWS ANCHOR, UNIVISION: Despite the anti-immigrant policy of the Trump administration, thousands of Central Americans continue to risk crossing the border.
VIVIANA AVILA, CORRESPONDENT, UNIVISION: Activists say that in the face…
JORGE RAMOS, ANCHOR, UNIVISION: There’s...there's an entire current within the United States that has emerged in opposition to Donald Trump but that are doing wonderful things. You have the Dreamers, these kids that arrived here undocumented, that have organized in wonderful ways...that go into Senators’ and Congressmembers’ offices...they don’t allow them to eat in restaurants and harass them…
JORGE RAMOS, ANCHOR, UNIVISION: we’re being pounded from all sides. In other words...Donald Trump calls us criminals and rapists...all of us...there are new laws in order to deport increasingly more people. All who come from abroad runs the risk of, despite requesting political asylum, of...of being rejected. There are constant attacks on social media, and personally, against minorities, to such…
JORGE RAMOS, ANCHOR, UNIVISION: There are people that feel totally identified with this country, that believe the same things that Donald Trump believes. If you vote for someone, you partially resemble that. And also that, among Latinos, there are very conservative values that are commonly held with the Republican Party, President Trump’s party. The...the religious issue, the importance of family…
JORGE RAMOS, ANCHOR, UNIVISION: I didn't see criminals or rapists or terrorists. What I saw, and I don't want to be overly dramatic, is that I saw this: I saw kids. Like this one. Or even this one. I saw an 8-month old girl. I saw a 4-month-old boy and they are part of people who are fleeing extreme poverty, who are fleeing violence, who are fleeing gangs and their only opportunity is the United…
SENATOR TED CRUZ: We are seeing an anger, an extreme rage on the far left. Full of hate towards Donald Trump. And this impacts, influences everything they do. This is not good for this country, it's not healthy. Look, we can disagree on weighty matters, on politics, but we have to be agree on civic matters, on treating each other with dignity. Respecting each other. And these screams and shrieks…
RAFAEL CRUZ, FATHER OF SENATOR TED CRUZ: When I came to this country in 1957, I did not have money. I did not speak a word of English. And in less than seven years, after leaving the university, I had my own business. And then in a generation, I saw my son become a senator from the state of Texas and a presidential candidate. Where in the world can that be done in a generation? Only in the United…
PRESIDENT TRUMP: They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists
LUIS MEGID, REPORTER, UNIVISION: Whether you like it or not, attacking immigrants worked for candidate Trump. That is why there is no reason to be surprised that in the upcoming election many candidates are following in his footsteps,
BRIAN KEMP: Just in case I need to round up criminal illegals and take ‘em home…
CARLOS CALDERON, HOST, UNIVISION: There was an unusual, so to speak, meeting between President Donald Trump, and there you are watching, and the rapper Kanye West who supports him in the White House . The funny thing was that he began his speech saying he supported Hillary Clinton, well that's the way these two nut cases are. But anyway, the artist really stole the show.
RAÚL GONZÁLEZ, HOST,…
LOURDES DEL RIO, CORRESPONDENT, UNIVISION: President Trump celebrates that this unemployment figure is the lowest it has ever been since 1969. That was one of his biggest campaign promises, and now it becomes a kind of trophy to motivate his base in the run-up to the mid-term elections.