Jeff Ross Roasts the Border: Live from Brownsville, Texas
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Ross:
Look at thisbeautiful crowd.
Come up here, dude.
Come up here.
Look at this guy.
What's your name? What's that?
Herman. And...
What?
Just call you "eggnog?"
What do you do?
I landscape. Landscape.
I could've guessed
that in one guess.
You're a legal citizen?
I'm an alien. You're an alien?
I got a Social Security though.
You can check.
I'm not going to check.
It's okay.
You're in a safe
space right now.
Are your parents
in this country?
Yeah. One.
One is, and the other one?
They threw one back.
They threw one back.
That would be such a tricky
way to grow up, right,
where you're legal
but your parents
are undocumented?
That's a lot of leverage
to have on your parents.
"Hey, clean up your room."
"Really, Mom?"
"Let me call ICE,
see if they want
to clean up your room."
"What time is my curfew, Dad?"
"Well, you might not be
coming home tonight, so."
Hola. Me llamoJeff Ross.
And like most Americans, I'm
a descendant of immigrants.
My grandparents' grandparents
escaped from Eastern Europe
in search of a better
life and perfect posture.
Their daughter,
my great-grandma Rosie,
went on to embrace
the American dream.
After playing four seasons
with the New York Giants,
she built herself a successful
catering business
in Newark, New Jersey.
From there, our family
grew into a motley
melting pot of religions
and nationalities
that now includes a crazy
Israeli and two Chinese cousins
that are smarter than me
and can kick my ass.
And it's not just my family.
Since this country got rolling,
people from all over the world
have fled their homelands
to come to the greatest
country on Earth.
I mean, can you see
how happy they are?
USA! USA!
Ever since I was a kid,
leaders on all sides
have stood up for immigrants.
Rather than talking
about putting up a fence,
why don't we make it
possible for them
to come here legally
with a work permit,
and then while they're
working and earning here,
they pay taxes here?
And when they want to go
back, they can go back,
and they can cross, and open
the border both ways.
These are good people,
strong people.
Part of my family is Mexican.
Ross:
Things are different now.Suddenly, America
is like a snobby club
with a douchey doorman.
But for me, this issue
isn't about politics.
It's about people, lots
and lots of people.
No ban, no walls!
No ban, no walls!
Here I am in Texas, rally
in the state capital.
One of many happening
all over the country right now.
No ban, no wall.
For many, the stakes
couldn't be higher.
My fiance is from Mexico,
and he's actually undocumented,
and with all this ICE
raids and everything,
he's afraid to go out because...
Must be scary. Very scary.
I'm the son of Mexican
and Columbian immigrants,
and I'm proud.
I feel you, bro.
"Palestinian, Mexican,
Muslim and a woman."
Man.
You can probably get
deported and locked up
for three different
reasons right now.
What do you each for lunch,
like quesadillas with hummus?
Not only was this nation built
by immigrants, it still is.
Are you a real
construction worker?
Real construction.
All the building, and last
year, we do all the window.
Wow. Right here at the capital?
Yes, sir.
Well, it's a beautiful building
with beautiful windows.
Thank you. Yeah.
And thank you, all United States
for bringing little jobs for us.
Yeah. Of course, man.
I'm very appreciative.
Immigrants make America great.
I agree, man.
Yeah. Yeah.
A couple of Mexican
guys like you and me
are making this country great.
All right. Gracias.
With some people calling
for a Muslim ban,
even our freedom
of religion is at risk.
You're wearing
your uniform today.
To show people that the way
that Muslims are being treated,
getting detained at the airport,
banned is just unacceptable.
You know, we need
to come out and show
our fellow Americans
who were are.
Of course. Right.
In any other context, people
would be saluting you,
and here, it's, like,
you might as well
be getting the middle
finger from the government.
What the hell is going on?
Why is a nation of newcomers
suddenly turning its
back on itself?
I wanted to understand
more, so I headed down
to the frontline
of the immigration battle,
town called Brownsville,
at the southern tip of Texas.
And as we all know, the tip
is always the most sensitive,
so the people who live
here are getting hit hard
by America's changing policies.
Who lives here? Is it mostly
Mexican-American people?
Mexican and Mexican-American
people is 95 percent of us,
but at the end of the day,
we're all Texan.
family and friends living
and working on both sides
of the border,
creating one big community
of "murderers, rapists
and some, I assume,
are good people."
That's the Rio Grande.
That's Mexico.
across right here.
I'm just walking
along the border
and finding kids' clothes,
womens' clothes, more
shoes, shoes, shoes.
I don't think that's a drug
dealer or a terrorist
coming over right there.
Raids and detentions
are at an all-time high.
Plus, el Presidente's
constant threats
of mass deportations,
including young
DREAMers who were
raised and educated here,
and of course, the building
of an even bigger barrier
has put stress on the hearts
of all the people
who aren't hot enough to get
into America on a modeling visa.
So I started asking,
"How do the people
who actually live on the border
feel about all this?"
Do they want
an even bigger wall?
And if I did a free
show at a public park,
right in front of the existing
fence, will the locals show up,
or would many be too
scared to come out
for fear of being rounded
up -- or roasted.
Because for many, this
issue is no joke.
More people cross over illegally
here than anywhere else
along America's 2,000-mile
border.
So our government
built this fence
through Brownsville a decade ago
to keep the strangers out.
It hasn't worked.
They still come...
Man:
Three-oh-four, go ahead.Man:
I have two individualswalking up to me.
Ross:
...any way they can.Man:
They probablyrafted them across.
Yeah.
Ross:
As we waitedfor Border Patrol,
the constables helped me
use my broken Spanish
to welcome two people
into the country.
Get your filming
now because when
we call Border Patrol,
we put the cameras down.
Hey, bud.Hola.
They're from El Salvador.
From El Salvador? Yes.
They're going to New York.
I'm going to New York.
They're going to go
see Donald Trump.
This your son?
Yes. Yeah, see?
Hola, buddy. Hola.
Me llamoJeff.
that way there's no
immediate deportation.
Smart. Yeah.
How do you feel?
Are you nervous? What
are you feeling?
[ Interpreting in Spanish ]
What's the violence
like in your home?
[ Interpreting in Spanish ]
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