TUCKER CARLSON: Jorge, thanks for joining us. I appreciate it.
JORGE RAMOS: Great to be here. Thank you.
CARLSON: So the first, and maybe the most important question is: why should we let these asylum-seekers, these migrants into our country?
RAMOS: I think the United States is being a hostile and even dangerous country for refugees and for immigrants. And I think we have a long tradition of being generous- of accepting other immigrants from countries where they are fleeing violence and poverty and lack of democracy. I think that's precisely what the United States is. And at the end, Tucker, I think it's simply a matter of deciding what kind of country do we want to be. And it seems at this point that we are talking about a few hundred refugees and putting it in context from the 65 million refugees that there are in the world. The United States accepted only 84,000 in 2016 and with President Trump it's going to be even less. So it's simply a matter of deciding what kind of country do we want to be.
CARLSON: Well, we've accepted about 13 million refugees, economic refugees who are in our country now illegally. But back up for one second. You said this is a hostile, dangerous place for refugees? Then why would you want them to come here if the United States is so dangerous?