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¿Te tocan los $2,000? Lo que respondió la Casa Blanca | Gracias por el Ep. 100
Jorge Ramos
I have to start with a huge thank you. Thank you, because today we are completing our 100th episode. And when you start an adventure like this, this journalistic adventure, this independent journalism adventure, any number that reaches 100 is very important. So, thank you. We are here and we will continue doing
this very important exercise of independent journalism in this difficult time. We will also talk today on the program about these $2,000 that the President Donald Trump has supposedly offered. We already have more information. If your family in total earns less than $100,000, there is good news. We also have an important interview about the raids here in the United States. Latino USA, Futuro Media and journalist María Hinojosa, together with a wonderful group, have made a report on how hundreds and thousands of people are suffering here in the United States because of the raids. We will talk to them.
But let's start with the news of the day, which has to do with the opening of the government. After 43 days that it was closed, the government of the United States was opened. It was a complicated process, it had to go first in the Senate, where there were all kinds of political maneuvers so that seven Democrats and one Independent would join the 52 votes of the Republicans and finally the 60 votes were won in the Senate. In the House of Representatives, yesterday was also a day of many maneuvers,
but in the end, they had the 218 necessary votes and even a little more to get ahead. And then, at night, we will see the signature of President Donald Trump. At night, around 9.20pm approximately, President Donald Trump signed the new budget here in the country. Look at how he does it, it catches my attention, the marker, as we say in Mexico, or the marker, or the sharpie that the President uses
to sign all the laws, I think it's... I've never seen a bigger signature than that. Now, the economic costs of the government's closure are huge. The director of the National Council of Economy, who is one of the main advisors to President Donald Trump, has made the figure known.
Every week, 15 billion dollars were lost. And the most tragic of all is the 60,000 workers, who have nothing to do with government workers, but 60,000 workers, maybe you know someone or maybe you are one of them, who lost their jobs because economic activity in the country
decreased. Here are the statements of the director of the National Council of Economic Advisors said that it costs about 15 billion a week and it accumulates to maybe 1, 1.5% of GDP when you account for multiplier effects.
And their current estimate is that 60,000 Americans, not government workers, have lost
their jobs because of the reduced economic output. The program about the $2,000 that President Donald Trump has offered. He already offered them, and now he will have to pay them. He can't back out. So, there are two important pieces of information here. The first is the press secretary, Carolyn Leavitt, who has said that the president is committed, committed is the word she used in English,
that she is committed, and he is committed, the president, to this help being given. That is, the $2,000 will be given. But who will it be given to? We have more information. The Treasury Secretary said that it will be given to families
that earn less than $100,000. To full families that earn less than $100,000 a year. So if your family, in total, all your members earn less than $100,000, then they could receive this $100,000, then they could receive these $2,000 from the government. And they are still giving the president several alternatives on where to get the money.
But according to the director of the National Council of Economy, there is a way to get
it.
It's something that will require legislation. But if you look at how much tariff revenue has been coming in, then there would actually be enough room to cover those checks and not go into the rest of the budget. So yeah, there would be enough money to pay for the $2,000 checks.
So are you actually actively working with Congress to try to make that happen?
We're actively studying the matter and getting the numbers straight so the president has all the choices he needs to decide what to do.
Okay, there you go. the number straight so the president has all the choices he needs to decide what to do. There are two statements, two decisions of judges that are changing things in Chicago regarding immigration. Do you remember that a few days ago we were talking about Ms. Diana Santillana, who was detained inside a nursery in front of children? Well, a judge has decided that the arrest of this teacher is illegal and therefore is telling the government that they have to release her and put her on bail at least from next Tuesday. So this is one of the main news that has to do with migration. The other that has to do with migration is that another judge, not the one of the teacher Santillana, but another judge
has decided two things. First, that 13 people who had been detained in Chicago or their mediation must be released for this Friday because they were detained illegally. 13 people and this has a very important impact. The other news, the judge has determined that 615 people who were detained between June and October of this year, they have to be released with bail so that they can finally have their hearing and be tried. 615 people.
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Get started freeNow, do you know what the problem is? That many of these people were either deported or have been deported. The Department of Homeland Security is against the judge's decisions, but the fact is that 615 people
who have been arrested in Chicago have, according to the authority of this judge, but the fact is that 615 people who have been arrested in Chicago have, according to the authority of this judge, have the possibility of being released in the next few days. Let's move on to politics. Remember this name, Adelita Grijalva. Adelita Grijalva had a tragedy. Her father Raúl Grijalva died, who for years was represented us in Congress by the state of Arizona. When Raúl Grijalva dies, a special election is held and his daughter Adelita Grijalva wins.
But it turns out that for seven weeks she had not been allowed to take possession of her, because of all the politicking in Washington. And now I'm going to explain why. Because there were some files of Jeffrey Epstein that are linked to her, and now I'll explain. But the most important thing is that Adelita Grishvalova finally took possession.
And the representative elect will raise her right hand. Do you solemnly swear or affirm that you will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter, so help you God?
I do.
Congratulations.
You're now a member of the 119th Congress. officially congressman, but how long did it take? The truth is, it took seven weeks. I don't know why they couldn't have done it before. The fact is that Adelita Grijalva is already there. And when she gives her speech, there are many symbolic things that we have to pay attention to. Not only that she refers to the fact that she is representing her father and us, the Hispanics, and above all that she can advance a much more progressive agenda within the Congress, but that he did it, and we have had Adelita here in the program, he did it by speaking Spanish. This is important because in the Congress of the United States there are only 56 congressmen of Hispanic origin, and when one of them, like Adelita,
comes out and speaks for us and does it in Spanish, we must emphasize it. Here is his speech. sale y habla por nosotros y lo hace en español, hay que enfatizarlo. Aquí su discurso.
This moment is historic for our community. It is an honor to be the first Latina to represent Arizona in Congress.
And I assure you that even though I am the first, I won't be the last.
I loved that phrase, even if I'm the first, I won't be the last. And this is a wonderful example for our girls, our daughters, who want to get into politics and who, many times, simply decide not to do it because of all the news. Now, here comes the explanation of why the vote of Adelita Grijalva is important. In the US Congress, in the House of Representatives, there are 435 members.
For something to be approved, 218 votes are needed. But until now, there were only 217 votes from congressmen from both parties who agreed to let the full files be known. We are talking about thousands and thousands of pages of the files of Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein is a pedophile accused of sexual abuse, who was in a prison and who apparently committed suicide. But in those thousands of documents, there are perhaps names of people who do not want to be involved or involved with all this Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
Adelita Grijalva's vote was 218, so the first thing she did was to sign up so that it went from 217 to 218, the number of congressmen willing to let Jeffrey Epstein's files be known. Here's Adelita Grijalva talking about that.
We really need to do that. I did have to change my speech a little bit once we had some more information coming out because I think it's really important for the American people to get a glimpse as to why this administration is doing everything they can to prevent these files from getting out.
The White House is in a full cover-up mode. They are doing everything they can to cover this up and cover up donald trump's either the fact that he's implicated or the fact that he knew about it is trying to cover things up for his friends and other rich elites and billionaires and people like that what we know to be true is that when the initial birthday card came up for
donald trump literally drew up a woman or what it looks like to me a teenager senator jeffrey i've seen saying they had a lot in common. The White House and the president came out and said it was fake. We know it wasn't fake. We got that directly from the Epstein estate.
Okay, what the congressman is referring to is that members of the Democratic Party, one of the committees, yesterday gave three emails to Jeffrey Epstein, in which they mentioned Donald Trump. In one of them, they said that Donald Trump was several hours at home, when one of the alleged victims of sexual abuse was also at home. This is one of the information that emerged from the email.
The other is that, according to Epstein, Donald Trump knew, that's the word he used, he knew about the girls who were there. If this were true, the White House denies it, of course, and the President too. But if this was true, the question is whether the current President of the United States was a witness to a crime. Not him, but had he been a witness to a crime. And therefore, this is a whole political debate.
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and says that he has done absolutely nothing wrong.
These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong. And what President Trump has always said is that he was from Palm Beach and so was Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein was a member at Mar-a-Lago until President Trump kicked him out because Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and he was a creep. In this email you refer to with the name of a victim that
was unredacted now and has since been reported on in this room so I will go ahead and say it Virginia Guffrey and it was CBS's own reporting Ouija that recently wrote that Miss Guffrey maintained and God rest her soul that she maintained that there was nothing inappropriate she ever witnessed, that President Trump was always extremely professional and friendly to her. And so I think it's a question worth asking the Democrat Party, and you should all go
ask them after this briefing, of why they chose to redact that name of a victim who has already publicly made statements about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and
is unfortunately no longer with us. nothing wrong, has not been a witness to absolutely no crime and that it is not necessary for them to go to publish. What you just saw now, we will be repeating sadly during the next weeks. We are going to move on to Maria Corina Machado, she is still in clandestinity within
Venezuela and has very positive words about the President of the United States, words that we are reproducing right here. for 26 years, as it should. We have been asked that this criminal structure be addressed using law enforcement. And that's finally what's happening. And I did have the chance to speak on Friday with President Trump. And it was a very good conversation. And I was able to convey to him our gratitude for what he's doing. And I absolutely think he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize because of incredible
events that are taking place currently in the world. Now, of course, what we don't know is what will happen on the coast of Venezuela, where there are at least a dozen ships from the United States, and on the side of the Venezuelan dictatorship, how they are preparing for a possible war, intervention or invasion of the United States. Let's finish with very good news, which has to do with the possibilities that you can buy a house. We are looking at the averages.
On average, to buy a house here in the United States, people must be 40 years or older on average. And so, there is a whole movement at the national level to make the houses more affordable for young people. And there are two ideas that are floating around. The first has to do with loans.
The most common loan that exists here in the United States is a loan-year loan. But now they're playing with the idea that a loan instead of 30 years becomes a 50-year loan. Of course, you would have to pay more in interest, but your monthly fee would be lower.
So one of the ideas for young people to have access and buy a house would be to go from 30 to 50 years. The second idea is much more creative and it is the following. Only 50% of people here in the United States who are house owners are paying 4% or less. The rest are paying more than 4%.
But to not complicate things, the idea is the following. Having loans with transferable percentages. That is, if you bought a house and you are currently paying 3% or 4% of annual interest, the idea is that you could transfer that percentage to a new house. Currently, if you are going to buy a new house, the percentages are above 6 or 7%. But if this idea is approved in the US Congress, which is already signed by President Donald Trump,
that same percentage that you currently have of less than 6%, which is, let's say, 3 or 4%, should be transferable or could be transferable. So these are two ideas that are floating around so that you or the younger people can buy a house here in the United States. Very well, let's go now to our first interview with the team of reporters from Latino USA, from Futuro Media, who have done an extraordinary job reporting on the raids
and the harmful effects it is causing in the Latino community. The interview, right now. That's how it is. The government of President Donald Trump has deported half a million people, according to the latest information from NPR. Certainly, the raids have marked the second term,
the second presidency of Donald Trump. And these raids are characterized by masked agents, without identification, without capture orders, using tear gas and separating families. Futura Media has just made a special report on these raids, which they have called
the Levantados. And to talk to us about that, we are joined by Mariano Josa, who is of course the president of Futuro Media, executive producer of Latino USA, and Fernanda Echavarri, editor-in-chief of Latino USA. Both of you, thank you for being here.
Thank you, Jorge.
Thank you. How do you come up withre Levantados, María? ¿Dónde surge la idea?
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Get started freeBueno, la verdad es que ocurre, como estamos haciendo el periodismo en este momento, que es, las historias se están ocurriendo y nosotros como periodistas tenemos que alcanzarlas. De repente vemos la situación en Los Ángeles, tenemos un colega en CalMatters, Sergio Olmos, que estaba documentando desde el comienzo lo que empezó en Los Ángeles y pudo lograr Now Matters, Sergio Olmos, who was documenting from the beginning what started in Los Angeles, and was able to have an interview with Gregory Bovino,
who at that time was a nobody, but now he's the boss behind all the actions in the cities. And then, I'm from the city of Chicago, born in Mexico City, created in the city of Chicago, the second city of the Ice assault. And it was like, wait, we have these colleagues
in Los Angeles, I can be in Chicago. We don't have to get the report right away, but we can give a context of what's happening and follow a story and from there end in Mexico City.
What is it that gives context to this documentary? And for that, thank you for interviewing us, because I do think it is being very well received for the fact that it gives context to what we are experiencing. Hablando de contexto, Fernanda, comparado con las deportaciones de Barack Obama, que fueron más de 3 millones hasta el momento, Donald Trump, solo, por decirlo de alguna manera, son medio millón, pero ¿en qué se diferencian las redadas y las deportaciones, los levantados durante la época de Donald Trump comparado con la época de Barack Obama? ¿Cuál es la diferencia? Yo creo que la diferencia lo estamos viendo muy claro y es, el punto es aterrorizar a la gente.
Entonces, tal vez las deportaciones no lleguen al número que llegamos antes de personas que han sido sacadas del país. Pero la manera en la que los agentes de inmigración, lo vimos también desde el the beginning with students who have visas, who are here legally, they have papers, they have permission to be here, and yet agents without any identification are stopping people in the street. It's a thing of... really, I mean, Maria, you and I have seen it
in other administrations, that people will be arrested for ICE, but not in this way. The way of terrorizing. The mayor of Los Angeles told us. It's a hunt for Latinos. And the problem right now is that at a time like this, we have politicians of all levels, whether they are states, cities, is that these raids are being carried out in a much more way in which the agents are not identified, the people are terrorized, and also the support that the federal government of the Supreme Court has to say, keep doing things that way.
What happens, Jorge, is that you and I have been in this for so many years, that raids, that is, that they take people, not that they separate families, taking away children. That is relatively new in the decades that we have, you and I, covering this. But to live it, to witness it, both in Los Angeles and in Chicago, is a psychological war. It's a psychologicalica de terror.
Yo que viví y cubrí como periodista el 11 de septiembre, no que tú sentías que el terror venía de afuera, hacia ti, hacia mi ciudad. Y ahora es el terror del gobierno federal, viniendo hacia todo lo que yo represento, mexicana, inmigrante, no not born here, et cetera, et cetera.
And all the people, I mean, like me. And it's, as you said, it's not that there are thousands and thousands and thousands of agents, no. But what they do is they create this, it's not a game,
this reality of terror in which we are, well yes, the hunting of Latinos, looking for us to take them away, it is an impressive thing, Jorge, and the truth is that ...
This is very strong, Maria, that you use the word hunting, that is, we are talking about persecution of Latinos,
we are talking about hunting Latinos. Again, as journalists, we have to be very careful, but we also have to be the ones who are sounding the alarm. Because yes, it's a hunt, you know? It's what we've said, you and I have said it, they start with a Mexican immigrant, but now they're getting up and taking North American citizens. I mean, even if they're not Latinos, they're journalists, like in the city of Chicago, they took a North American journalist, a güera, you know? So, we, as journalists, are sounding the alarm to say,
be careful, it starts like this, but where does it end? And in that sense, it's overwhelming, really. It's overwhelming what's happening, and it's sad and it's very scary.
Fernanda, how did you organize these reports? Why did you go to Los Angeles and Chicago?
Well, Los Angeles was a Chicago? Bueno, Los Angeles fue donde empezó todo. Donde fue la ciudad donde las redadas de esta manera que las vemos ahora ya como las redadas entre comillas normales, que es lo que estamos viendo día a día en Estados Unidos, comenzaron en Los Angeles. De ahí, Gregory Bovino de la Patrulla Fronteriza, quien dij said was, as Maria said, a nobody, and now he has become the person who is deciding where to go, how the attacks of the immigration agents are going to be, and from there they went to Chicago. In Chicago, it started with a death. In Chicago,
the border agents arrived and killed someone as soon as they arrived.
What happened, Fernanda? Do you remember that incident? How was it?
Yes, it was a...
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Get started freeWell, Silverio was in Chicago, right? And I'm sorry to interrupt you, but it's important because Silverio, where Jorge was killed, is not in the ciudad de Chicago. O sea, han habido matanzas de la parte de la policía en Chicago? Esto es una realidad, ¿no? Pero tú tienes a ICE que están en los suburbios de Chicago, o sea, donde la gente tiene sus perritos, sus jardines, su garage, no es gente pobre en una situación urbana y en esto como decía Fernanda Silverio de 38 años con dos niños bajo su custodia creo que de siete
y tres años es la primera persona que ICE mata a balazos como como dieron dos antes en bal con balazos pero hubieran dos that ICE kills with bullets. How do they kill him? There were two before, with bullets. But there were two before in California. One runs into traffic and they kill him, and another falls off the roof. Silverio Villegas from Michoacan
is the first person to be pulled out of the gun when he's running, terrified. And they shoot him. I haven't seen the video because I can't, but they shoot him and he was unarmed, I mean, not doing anything. And he has returned, because the first victim is not going to be the last. And so he ends up dead. And so, as Fernanda said, the raids in Chicago begin.
Fernanda, I wanted to ask you about the children. There are two or three videos that have impressed me. One of the children, not necessarily in his report, says, they grabbed my mom, the migrant grabbed my mom. How do you report the trauma that this is causing to this to children, the deportees, the arrested?
Well, not in this report that we are talking about now, but a week ago we released another story about what this summer was like. It was not a normal summer for the children. Normally, the summer is a time of rest, of being outside, of enjoying family time, and we investigated it. Many children and teenagers spent their summer at home without going out.
Out of fear. They were afraid to go out. Families were afraid to go out, to drive from one place to another, maybe to spend the weekend in a national park, or go out, enjoy the summer holidays. It wasn't a normal summer. And we're also seeing it with one of the girls
we talked to in Los Angeles. The mom told us that instead of the role of the mom telling her daughter, you send me a message when you get to school, you send me a text on WhatsApp que ya llegaste bien, es la hija, que es ciudadana americana, que le está diciendo a su mamá, mamá, ya llegaste, ya llegaste a la casa bien,
mamá, fuiste al super, llegaste bien, estás bien, entonces hay un peso muy, muy fuerte que traen los niños y los adolescentes de tener un miedo constante y de estar checando que sus papás estén bien. Los niños chiquitos tal vez no. Y también nos lo dijeron las maestras y psicólogas de las escuelas con las que hablamos que están haciendo patrullas para cuidar su propia comunidad en South Central LA, en un área muy mexicana de Los Angeles, muy inmigrante de Los Angeles, que bueno, hay muchas, pero en esta en particular, estas personas que trabajan en la escuela, se suben a sus coches y se van por todas las calles, así uno por una, buscando a ver si encuentran a gente,
a coches, camionetas, que tal vez parezcan que son agentes de inmigración que están a punto de hacer una redada. Y después de hacer eso, se van a sus trabajos en las escuelas a las siete de la mañana. Y nos dijeron, la psicóloga de esta escuela nos dijo, me han llegado más niños y niñas que nunca antes en mi carrera. Porque hay unos niños chiquitos. La propia comunidad latina se está organizando, Fernanda. Se están organizando para defender, para cuidar, cuando los gobiernos locales, el gobernador de California puede hacer muchas cosas, la alcaldesa de Los Ángeles también, pero al final, como te decía al principio de esta conversación,
cuando tienes a la fuerza entera del gobierno federal, más aparte el apoyo de la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos, And when you have the entire force of the federal government, plus the support of the Supreme Court of the United States, is when the community has to come out and help each other, take care of each other. And going back to your question about how it affects the children psychologically, there are little children who are arriving at school, the psychologist at this school told us, crying but they don't know why.
And it was when they talked to their parents that they said, it's because their grandfather hasn't left the house in two months because he's scared. So, the older kids do understand, but the little ones don't have much, they don't have how to understand what's happening to their families. de cómo poder entender lo que está pasando a sus familias, sólo saben que lo sienten, los niños lo sienten. Yo tengo una hija de cuatro años, sienten cuando las cosas no están bien.
Antes de que se vayan María, quería preguntarte por qué fue importante ir al Palacio Nacional en México y hablar con la presidenta de México, Claudia Shema. Además, me interesa mucho un poco la anécdota, cómo logras entrar y cómo una periodista and how a Mexican-American journalist can come to a press conference and ask the president directly.
Well, what happens is that the relationship between Mexico and the United States is fundamental and in terms of deportations, there are many, I think I'm right in saying
that the majority are Mexicans who are being deported. So, how is the president reacting in particular? Because it's different before with AMLO, now with Claudia, and she has her own way of responding.
We know that Donald Trump is one of the few people who says that he more or less respects and listens to her. So to get there, it took weeks and weeks to get there. Fernanda and I got there at 5 in the morning, to the morning show.
Yes, but you get there at 5 in the morning. Very early in the morning, that's it. Very early in the morning to get there.
Before the sun comes out. Before the sun comes out, you have to be standing there.
Before the sun comes out, you have to be there. And a lot of waiting. Standing, to get in. And then they put us in the back. And simply when we know, Jorge, when you're a journalist and you have the moment, it doesn't matter if you're scared or cold or hungry,
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Get started freeyou have to do your job. And I saw that she wasn't looking at me. I had put on some really big earrings. Obviously, I like big earrings. Because I know that Claudia and I are from the same generation. I would say, she's going to look at my earrings.
So that she could see you, right?
So that she could see your word, to be able to ask you. misma generación. Yo decía, ella va a mirar mis aretes y va a decir, ah es ella, sí, yo sé quién, porque obvio le habían dicho que íbamos a estar allí.
Y una chamarra roja de piel. Y una chamarra muy roja.
O sea, ahí tenía que estar, María no fue a aceptar ahí, ¿no?
Sí, pero igual no fue hasta que tuve que tomar esta decisión que obvio es interesante para nosotros, que dije, bueno, ahí va en inglés. It wasn't until I had to make this decision, which is obviously interesting for us, that I said, well, there goes English. And when I spoke in English, which is when everyone turns around and says, wait a second, who is speaking English here? That's when the president...
But she didn't want to answer you in English, because you ask her in English first and she doesn't answer you in English. Because, is it a matter of nationalism?
We did it in both languages. Yes, but... ¿Será una cuestión de nacionalismo? Lo hicimos en los dos idiomas.
Si, pero ella pudiera haber respondido en los dos idiomas. Yo creo que ella es Claudia Sheinbaum y ella no va a cambiar frente a una periodista. Si yo le hubiera preguntado, ¿me puede contestar en inglés? Hubiera sido otra cosa, pero creo que yo, por ella misma, no le iba a hacer en inglés.
Déjeme terminar con esto, preguntándole a las dos, ¿por qué lo hacen? but I don't think she would do it in English. Let me finish with this, asking both of you. Why do you do it? You could have chosen any topic, but you chose to do this. I think, I'm convinced that in a few years, when we are asked what you did during the time of Donald Trump, I want to have an answer, and part of that is the journalism we are doing.
But why do you do it, Fernanda?
I think that part of what you say is what I did at the time when this was happening in my country, in my state, in my community. And because we know who our audience is. In our show, Latino USA, we go on NPR and there are a lot of escucha que tal vez no son latinos, pero también sabemos que mucha gente que tiene conexión en América Latina o con familias migrantes está escuchando nuestro show. Y para nosotros es importante también respetar, darle respeto a las historias de personas que han sido levantadas, que han sido detenidas, no nada más la persona
que se va, sino la persona que está en su casa, la mamá que pasan cinco días y no sabe dónde está su hijo, porque no hay comunicación, no hay llamada telefónica, la gente se está desapareciendo, no exagerando, pero de verdad están desapareciendo. So, to give our community a piece of journalism, a story that says, we see you, we hear you, and we are going to investigate as much as we can to know not only what is happening, but what are the consequences in the short and long term. And also, try to, I don't know how to say it in Spanish, me oigo muy pocha, perdón, pero
holding the government accountable. O sea, decirle al gobierno, no nada más por ser un gobierno federal, vas a poder hacer estas cosas sin que nadie las investigue.
María, ¿por qué sigues haciendo esto?
Bueno, es mi papel cívico. Yo me volví ciudadana norteamericana y siento que soy parte de una I became a citizen, a North American citizen, and I feel that I am part of a long trajectory of a journalist of conscience, starting with Frederick Douglass. And I think it is our duty not to tell the truth, even if they are ugly. It's very important for us because we are a program that has more than 30 years documenting all this, even trying to sound the alarm about how they want to separate us, they want to see us differently. We don't allow this, but the fact that we have 30 years in this, Jorge, is that people trust us a lot. And we are a very small team. So we can't get on planes and do breaking news every day, etc. But the importance of having a context is very important for everyone. And as Fernanda says, our audience is very Latino, but we also have a lot of people who have no idea what's going on in our community.
And we're telling the truth. And I, as a journalist, had to see it. It's impressive and unfair. And that doesn't mean that we have a journalistic perspective. What's going on is not normal, and we have to talk about it. I'm not going to stay quiet.
The series is called Levantados. Fernanda Echavarri, Mariano Gózalez. Thank you for being here. Thank you for opening your eyes once again.
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Get started freeThank you very much, Jorge.
Thank you. And now we're going to read your comments. We have two comments here. The first is from Gladys Salmonte, it says the following. Jorge, I admire you as a journalist. You are a respectful and very decent person. I never thought that this country would have so much lack of charity with us, the Hispanics. How sad that they mistreat people who are not criminals, and the real criminals are left free in the streets.
That is where they have to impose the laws and not bother people who are only working honestly to support their families. What lack of love is there in this world? May God forgive these corrupt politicians. And the second comment is from Maria Hurtado, who says the following, How bad is immigration?
How bad are all governments in the world? Because they think they own territories that do not belong to them. Nobody owns anything. I want to thank you for your comments, but above all, I want to thank you for these 100 episodes together. We have just completed precisely 100 episodes, and this could not have been achieved without your support. Without your support, without following us on YouTube.
If you want to subscribe, you can do it. Remember, you enter YouTube, Jorge Ramos script, so I see things. But I want to end this program with a huge thank you to you, because without you we would not be here. But I want to end this program with a huge thank you to you, because without you we would not be here. Really, thank you very much.
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