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Texas Matters: Veteran Journalist Jorge Ramos On President Trump

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On this episode of "Texas Matters," Texas Public Radio contributor Yvette Benavides talks to Jorge Ramos, the lead news anchor for the Spanish-language network Univision.

Ramos has won numerous awards for excellence in journalism, including a Cabot Prize and has been named by Time Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world. 

On July 25, 2015, presidential candidate Donald Trump held a press conference in Dubuque, Iowa, and Ramos attempted to ask a question. 

TRUMP: Excuse me. Sit down. You weren't called. Sit down. Sit down.

RAMOS: I have the right to ask a question.

TRUMP: Go back to Univision.

Ramos was thrown out of the press conference but was eventually allowed back in and then engaged in a heated exchange with Trump about the candidate’s proposed immigration policies.

This clash led Ramos to produce a documentary called “Hate Rising“ that explores the rise in racist hate speech and violence since the launch of the Trump campaign. And he’s recently written a memoir called “Stranger: The Challenge of a Latino Immigrant In the Trump Era.”

David Martin Davies can be reached at dmdavies@tpr.org or on Twitter @DavidMartinDavi

 

David Martin Davies can be reached at dmdavies@tpr.org and on Twitter at @DavidMartinDavi