The tone at the nation’s top Spanish-language television network was triumphant – and demanding – following President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty proclamation for upwards of 4 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States.
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos not only parroted the President’s justification that he acted unilaterally because of his dissatisfaction with a recalcitrant Congress, but called on his viewers to work with him to secure amnesty for the additional millions of unauthorized immigrants still left out of the President’s deportation relief plan.
Meanwhile, on Univision’s millennial English-language sister network, Fusion, Ramos once again echoed the theme carried forth by Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL), which is that the President’s executive action was nothing more than the settling of a delinquent political debt.
The Fusion video is interesting in that Ramos seems to gloat about the fact that the incumbent President of the United States finally reversed himself on the limits of his executive authority under pressure from “leaders, activists, and journalists.”
On both Fusion and Univision, Ramos made sure to pointedly excoriate House Republicans for not following the President’s dictates, which is interesting given this exchange in his interview in this week’s edition of Time magazine:
TIME: What is the outer edge of how far you would be willing to go as a journalist who wants to advocate for his audience?
RAMOS: The limit is, I am a registered Independent. I would never say to whom I vote. I would never pressure anyone to vote for one party or another. That would be way too much.
It is on Univision, though, that Ramos revealed the full scope of the motives behind his relentless advocacy for amnesty and for this executive action. In the midst of talking about triumph, Ramos lets this cat out of the bag:
One of the most important challenges we’ve had as a community is to go from having great numbers - there are 55 million of us in the United States - to having a certain power in this country, and what this means is that we have achieved a certain power.
And so we have descended to this shameful nadir, in which a network news anchorman celebrates the unraveling of the nation’s constitutional order for the sake of raw political power…an unraveling that he openly and willfully advocated for, and plans to pursue more of.
