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We love it when racists and the politicians they support forget how much their asses get kicked when they push people. Donald Trump would not have brought Jorge Ramos back if he didn’t realize – quickly – how much trouble he was about to be in.<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
In his latest showdown, Donald Trump ordered Univision anchor Jorge Ramos out of a news conference Tuesday, telling him to \u201cgo back to Univision.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Ramos, who like Trump is known for his confrontational style, didn\u2019t back down until he was escorted out of the room by security. Eventually, Ramos was invited back, where he sparred with Trump over the Republican candidate\u2019s immigration proposals.<\/p>\n Trump has had some high-profile tiffs with media figures recently, battling publicly with Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly,<\/a> and on Tuesday with the network\u2019s chairman, Roger Ailes.<\/p>\n But prodding Ramos, who has been called the Spanish-language Walter Cronkite, could prove dangerous for Trump, who thus far been something of a Teflon candidate. Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n The 57-year-old has anchored \u201cNoticiero Univision,\u201d Spanish-language TV\u2019s No.1-ranked newscast, for nearly three decades and is considered a trusted source of news. A 2010 study by the Pew Hispanic Center<\/a> found that among Latinos, Ramos was the second-most recognized Latino leader behind Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and other polls have shown he is one of the most trusted public figures among Latinos.<\/p>\n “Spanish-language news has almost the same pull as the priest in the pulpit,” Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Los Angeles), told the Los Angeles Times<\/a> in 2013. “And Jorge Ramos is the pope, he’s the big kahuna.”<\/p>\n Ramos has a lot of followers: According to Nielsen ratings, more than 2 million viewers tune in to \u201cNoticiero Univision\u201d nightly. For perspective, in 2013, that was three times the audience of CNN\u2019s \u201cThe Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer.\u201d<\/p>\n And according to recently published research, the GOP’s presidential nominee would need to win nearly half of the Latino vote<\/a> to make it to the White House. (President Obama won reelection with 71% of the Latino vote).<\/p>\n During the last presidential election cycle, Washington Monthly called Ramos the broadcaster who would most determine the outcome of the 2012 election.<\/a><\/p>\n Despite that, Trump at one point on Tuesday night said he “didn’t know much about him.”<\/p>\n A native of Mexico City, Ramos moved to Los Angeles as a student in 1983 and took UCLA Extension classes in journalism. He landed an on-air job at KMEX-TV, Los Angeles\u2019 Spanish-language station. Three years later, he was named an anchor for Univision, becoming one of the youngest national news anchors in television.<\/p>\n Ramos, who became a naturalized U.S. citizen seven years ago, has consistently used his position to unabashedly push for immigration reform.<\/p>\n “I am emotionally linked to this issue,” Ramos told The Times in 2013. “Because once you are an immigrant, you never forget that you are one.”<\/p>\n For many Latinos, Trump telling Ramos to \u201cgo back to Univision\u201d reflected shades of racism and echoed the familiar phrase, \u201cGo back to Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier this year, Ramos defended his focus on immigration in an open letter to Republicans.<\/p>\n “The Republican Party has been complaining lately about how some Latino journalists, including me, only ask them about immigration,” he wrote. “That is correct, but what Republicans don’t understand is that for us, the immigration issue is the most pressing symbolically and emotionally, and the stance a politician takes on this defines whether he is with us or against us.”<\/p>\n Ramos has been unapologetic about his and the network\u2019s stance.<\/p>\n \u201cOur position is clearly pro-Latino or pro-immigrant,” he said in 2013. “We are simply being the voice of those who don’t have a voice.”<\/p>\n Latinos, in turn, see Ramos as a leader. According to the Pew Hispanic Center survey, 38% of Latinos surveyed considered Ramos a major Latino leader.<\/p>\n At a University of Texas at Austin forum earlier this year, Univision News President Isaac Lee summed up the network\u2019s audience: \u201cUnivision\u2019s audience knows that Jorge is representing them,\u201d Lee said. \u201cHe is not asking the questions to be celebrated as a fair and balanced journalist. \u2026 He\u2019s going to ask the person whatever is necessary to push the agenda for a more fair society, for a more inclusive society and for the Hispanic community to be better.\u201d<\/p>\n Ramos has faced criticism over the news that his daughter is working for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, but he has said her job doesn’t affect his work. “Like many reporters who have parents, siblings or other family members that are active in politics, this will not change how I approach my duty as a journalist,” Ramos wrote in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ramos quit his first reporting job at a Mexico City TV station after his bosses demanded he soften a piece critical of the Mexican government and he refused.<\/p>\n Ramos has said he approaches interviews with world leaders in the context of warfare. \u201cMy only weapon is the question,\u201d he told The Times in 2013.<\/p>\n During the 2012 presidential campaign, Ramos moderated a series of Univision candidate forums, and pressed Mitt Romney and President Obama hard on immigration issues. After confronting Romney about his proposed \u201cself-deportation\u201d policy, Ramos turned to Obama.<\/p>\n “A promise is a promise,\u201d he said, prodding the president over the administration\u2019s deportation of more than 1.4 million people and failure to tackle immigration in his first term. \u201cAnd, in all due respect, you didn’t keep that promise.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We love it when racists and the politicians they support forget how much their asses…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Ramos is a very important figure for American Latinos<\/h2>\n
Ramos has a personal connection to immigration issues<\/h2>\n
Ramos sees himself as an advocate for millions of Latino immigrants, and so do they<\/h2>\n
Much like Trump, Ramos seems to welcome conflict and doesn\u2019t often back down<\/h2>\n