Schwarzenegger declines to join Joy Behar's critique of ICE
Arnold Schwarzenegger (pictured right) appeared to ignore an attempt from Joy Behar (pictured) to stir up anti-ICE sentiment on The View Tuesday - instead choosing to offer an uplifting anecdote about his time in the US. 'You are an immigrant yourself - an immigrant of the country,' Behar began. 'Did you have a visceral reaction to what they're doing - what ICE is doing [in LA]?'
Schwarzenegger - after begging Democrats and his fellow Republicans 'to come together and solve' the issue - offered a lengthy, thoughtful response. At points, co-host Sunny Hostin physically attempted to interrupt the conservative, who calmly continued his take.
'Let me tell you - you said "immigrant" - I'm so proud and happy that I was embraced by the American people like that,' he told Behar. 'Imagine - I came here at the age of 21 with absolutely nothing. And then to create a career like that. 'I mean, in no other country in the world could you do that,' Schwarzenegger reiterated. 'Every single thing - if it's my bodybuilding career, if it's my acting career, becoming governor, the beautiful family that I've created. 'All of this is because of America.'
'Because when you come to America, you're a guest,' Schwarzenegger explained. 'And you have to behave like a guest. Like, when I go to someone's house and I'm a guest, then I will do everything I can to keep things clean,' he further reasoned. 'Everything that is the right thing to do rather than committing a crime or being abusive.' The Kamala Harris voter declared that immigrants' mindsets should be more along the lines of 'I am going to America to use the great opportunities that America has - in education, jobs, creating a family, all of those kind of things.
'Then you have to think, "If I get all of those things from America, I have to give something back,"' Schwarzenegger added. 'You have a responsibility as an immigrant to give back to America and to pay back America, and to go do something for your community for no money whatsoever.' The Terminator actor advised onlookers to 'give something back to afterschool programs, the special Olympics, or whatever it is. 'Make this country a better place.' Another round of applause ensued.
Schwarzenegger - one of the rare Republicans to win a Gubernatorial bid in the Golden State - added separately: 'Democrats and Republicans have to come together and solve [immigration reform] if they really want to be public servants. If they want to be party servants,' he said, 'it won't happen.
Trump on Monday ordered a new blitz on Democrat cities that will see huge numbers of illegal immigrants rounded up for the 'largest mass deportation in history', a week of immigration enforcement efforts in LA where protests escalated into violence. That prompted Trump to respond by sending in the National Guard and hundreds of Marines.
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