Things Get Awkward When Tucker Asks Mexican Official Why Mexico Won’t Let Central Americans Stay | The Daily Caller

Things Get Awkward When Tucker Asks Mexican Official Why Mexico Won’t Let Central Americans Stay | The Daily Caller
"Things got awkward fast when Tucker Carlson asked a Mexican official why Central Americans migrating through Mexico shouldn’t be allowed to remain there.

Speaking with Guanajuato Secretary of Migration Juan Hernandez on Wednesday night’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the Fox News host began by asking why Hernandez’s own words from the past wouldn’t constitute a “hostile act” against the United States.

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“I want to read three quotes from a Mexican government official, and these are direct quotes,” Carlson said. 

• “‘We are betting Mexican-Americans will think ‘Mexico first,’ even unto the seventh generation. 
• Mexican immigrants to the United States are going to keep one foot in Mexico. They are not going to assimilate in the sense of not being Mexican,’ and 
• final quote, ‘We recognize the Mexican population is 100 million in Mexico and 23 million who live in the United States. We are a united nation.'”

“Those quotes are from you,” Carlson told Hernandez. 

“And I wonder if a government takes that position, that it’s sending foreign nationals to your country. 
That is a hostile act. 

So why are we sending money to a country committing hostile acts against us?”

“No, it’s not, my friend, no, no it’s not a hostile act at all,” Hernandez said..."
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