Asylum: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- With the 2020 election underway, John Oliver explains how the Trump administration has handled asylum seekers over the past four years, why it matters, and what we can do about it.
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I was preparing myself for hearing John telling us Bertha was killed in Honduras. I was so relieved when he said she wasn't.
Not yet anyway. Her life, as those of many others, depends on this election.
Same here. When he said she was sent back, tears came down and I said, "Oh God, they killed her?"
Pure relief to know she is alive...for now. #BidenHarris2020
Why was she not applying for asylum in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala or Belize, Mexico, Costa Rica etc. there were plenty of other countries where she could have went.
@@Makrillo Many of them are as bad as where they fled...or they are exactly where they are fleeing.
@@Makrillo ... she did? Mexico, to be precise. Which is probably same bad, but at least some distance away from Honduras.
A man complaining that people fleeing for their lives are cowards is pretty hypocritical for a guy who hid in a bunker from people with signs.
👏👏👏👏👏 well said
And who threatens (promises?) to leave the country because nobody likes him.
Whaddya expect from Cadet Bone Spur.
😂😂😂
dont forget that little draft dodge !!!
The name of this show should be changed to “One Systemic Social Problem at a Time”.
Nah. That sounds too much like we're solving them.
@@SalohcinQE you'd be a very bad lawyer that's forsure
Countering illegal immigration, lying actors, frauds, scammers, gang members, smugglers and people with bad intentions isn't a systematic problem. These actors still infiltrating America is a systematic problem that should be solved, but GOP (and especially Dems) are too weak to put a decisive end to it. America can't and shouldn't carry the world's burden on their shoulders. Anyone who've seen the migration crisis in Europe and who've got a responsible stance on the matter knows this. But Oliver and his fans love to virtue signal about compassion and openness, because they don't have to reap the consequences or acknowlege the negative side-effects, ever.
@@Mr3344555 Good thing I'm not one, and am just making jokes in yt comments instead, huh?
In Short: "One SS Problem at a time" - muahahah
I just "love" the fact that "The Great American Melting Pot" at 0:40 goes to the detail of dividing Norwegians and Swedes, Spaniards and Portuguese, but then just includes "Africans" as if it was a single ethnicity.
It’s the US, of course they’re gonna be racist, even if they don’t try to be
its from 1976 i wouldn't have high standards
I hear that applied more often than one would believe... Truth is that the average citizen just doesn't know anything about african countries and cultures...and to my shame when it comes to ethnic groups i am also pretty stomped, i can name like 3 which is pretty bad for a whole continent. :/
@@sanctificate6285 haha!!! No one is forced to stay here!
@@jimmyboy601 haha!! Not everyone can afford to move to another country!
"You'd probably also be black but let's take this one crisis at a time" is a GOLDEN line, god I love John Oliver
It's more than a catch phrase, it's reality...
Or disabled (physically, intellectually, or mental health issues).
U guys are getting brainwashed by oliver just hope u guys know
I feel bad for ppl who watch this hack
I used to watch him but thank god i see through this evil brainwashing now
@@jhunterb123 yeah because reminding people that this is not just about numbers and that we as humans should do better is brainwashing. Please enlighten me what's the brainwashing part?
@@jhunterb123 Yeah ok buddy. Go take your meds.
the fact that migrants spontaneously and freely organized themselves to create a list of who was there the longest indicates a broad willingness on the part of the refugees to cooperate with others and maintain justice during chaos. these are not "bad people," they are regular folks trying their best to help each other and make the best of a horrific situation
and have in mind, who said those words... and the long criminal history of that person... plus born into wealth...
Say What u wont
If People Dont Stand up.for Them Self
There is Not alwise a Nother Answer
Assad
Hitler
Ms13
If migrants can organize a list of who's next in line for asylum claims despite their trauma, we last week tonight watchers can organize a response to some of the bullshit our government is doing. To anyone reading this comment: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GIVE MONEY TO MIGRANT & ASYLUM-SEEKER AID ORGANIZATIONS IN MEXICO.
BBVA is a well-respected research institution. They made a list of migrant shelters in Mexico - you can download the list from this link, although the list is in Spanish: www.bbvaresearch.com/en/publicaciones/map-2020-of-migrant-houses-shelters-and-soup-kitchens-for-migrants-in-mexico/
Some organizations on the list have Facebook pages and/or websites. La Casa de Oracion del Migrant in Tijuana, for example, has a Facebook page you can check out to give them support.
Here are some other generally well-respected aid organizations that serve migrants in & near Mexico.
www.borderangels.org
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/countries/mexico
*Migrant shelters desperately need medical services during COVID!
slate.com/technology/2020/04/coronavirus-migrant-shelters-mexico.html
This slate article contains a list of shelters.
www.cnbc.com/2019/06/26/how-to-donate-to-help-migrant-children-at-the-border.html
The CNBC article is fro 2019, but it lists organizations that aid migrants & asylum seekers.
The good people on the list are not the problem, that is very true. However, the real problem is not solved by taking in all the good people.
It is solved by breaking the cartels. One headshot at the time.
I think the U.S. would even have the right to invade and annex northern Mexico.
Why bring Mexicans to the U.S. when you can just as well bring the U.S. to the Mexicans?
@@daszieher sober up, kid.
"Let's try to take this one systemic social crisis at a time."
Oh, gosh. We're gonna be here a while.
that one hit hard..
I was not ready for John Oliver to say that tbh...
i chuckled and cried at the same time. feels bad man.
"You'd probably also be black." So dryly delivered, so funny, and the truth in it makes me so angry.
US went from being the country of the free to being a police state in less than 20 years.
9/11 didn't destroy only the twin towers, it destroyed American identity.
"So I have to turn up dead to be accepted?" "Even then, if you're not the right kind of dead, you might be refused."
When my dad (US born US citizen of Eastern European descent) tried to kill my mom (US born US citizen of Eastern European descent) for the THIRD time, she went to a lawyer to get a divorce in NY. But, at that time there was no No Fault divorce option at that time. She was told the only way she could get a divorce based my dad's deadly violence towards her was for him to succeed in killing her!!! So, she went to Juarez, Mexico. Stayed for 3 days, declared herself a resident there, and then got a Mexican divorce from him. That divorce was accepted by the State of NY. And, THAT is how my mom saved her own life from my homicidal dad. THINK about it.
This is utterly ridiculous. I am glad your mom is okay. She is very brave to do what she did
That is consistent with laws here written and ratified by men. I'm so happy your mother had the smarts and the guts to gain her freedom!
No offense but maybe after the first time she should have left him and not waited for the third.
Anybody else find the name "Juarez" great to repeat all day long?
@@Tibbles11 Did you not read the part about not being able to get a divorce? No of course not. You were too busy being an outrageous prick to read for comprehension while applying your privileged perspective.
"They end up where they end up" sounds an awful lot like "It is what it is"
Or “so it goes”.
@IKtheVS Wah wah muh evil libs, I have nothing to say so I insult the lIbTaRdS on unrelated comments!
@IKtheVS Or maybe stop being racist scumbags and stop the war on drugs that is fueling money to those cartels. It's all the US governments fault that all these central and South American countries are the way they are.
@IKtheVS you're right. Sticking a knife dipped in sulfuric acid in a festering wound is way better than "not fixing it".
Phrases that when once said, a sound of a thousand lawmakers putting their heads in the sand follows.
I actually know a person who sought asylum. My friends mother. She’s seen his mocking speech. She cried. She genuinely feared for her life. Most specifically she feared a stoning. Death by stoning. That’s real life for some people. He mocked that reality and these demons laughed.
Horrible. I'm sick of the cruelty
But he supposedly a man of god 🙏. Wow what a sham. If God agrees with the racist and xenophobic then i rather have no faith in it. But im pretty sure we all God's children not just the ones that hope to be the favorite.
@@Af0restp3rson He is as much a man of God as I am a submarine on Mars.
I can see john's massive hair loss over the years
I have a friend who is doing the same as your friend's mother and she too is terrified. She knows if she loses, then her life and her children's lives are going to end. It is hard to watch her go through this.
The woman in the beginning....I’m Salvadoran-American. My grandmother still lives in El Salvador. She’s been harassed by MS-13. (She loves her farm too much to leave El Salvador). That woman speaks like my grandmother, lovers her grandchildren like mine does, even kind of looks like her. My heart is breaking.
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Same. Me da mucha lástima.
Then fight gangs, let's push to get rid of MS-13. Surely you voted Trump. Biden didn't and won't do anything about the gangs
@@chronometer9931
Is caging innocent brown kids in subhuman conditions at the border apart of trumps plan to get rid of a gang formed in Los Angeles?
@@tobisouza1294 Obama and Hillary set up those "camps", and the pictures that were shown, with kids in cages was taken fr the time Obama was in office and he sent over 2 million immigrants out, with Biden's help. I voted for Obama 2.times, sadly. I am no fan of Trump, but I do like the facts. Obama also separated families.
That child-imprisonment hotel was deeply disturbing. Those guys knew what they were doing was wrong so they got aggressive with anyone who tried to help the kids. Makes me sick
I commented this before, but how many of those kids do you think have been sexually assaulted while in those camps ?
You must be really angry with Obama then too?
@@galadine12 What is that, the "toddler excuse" ? "But, mom, Obama stole the kids first" I am sorry, but when did things become okay to do just because someone else did them first? "Don't worry serial killers, once we reach 100,000 of you, you can no longer be prosecuted" Also, Obama is not in office, people were fighting against his policies when he was in office, and never did his admin even come remotely close to the horrific numbers of the Trump admin. and that is over 8 years vs 4. Go sit down.
@@goldenglowable Don't worry. The Lawyers will be there for them 20 years from now, just like they are now for all the Boy Scouts and Catholics who were sexually abused.
@@mandlerparr1 Excuse? That's what you read in my comment? I write the word "too" which means literally "also" and you think I'm making an excuse for one side or the other? Not going to lie, you need to go outside and breathe, because you are seeing things. Trump has major problems at the border. Yes. Not good. No one said otherwise here. Obama literally built cages for kids. Right. Not good. Bad.
Calm down guy. You're in your safe space. Everyone here agrees with you.
US government: "Coronavirus is not a big deal"
Also US government: "Migrants have to go, we fear coronavirus"
BS
Exactly what I was thinking. Smh
You mean: "But we can still use it as a front to be racist to migrants"
Social justice warriors: “We all need to shut down everything, everyone needs to give up there employment and stay at home until 2022 because a virus that has completely cured the flu, and has a 99.98% survival rate for people under 50 has got to be stopped”.
Also SJW: We really need to keep flooding our country with untraceable human bodies.
This show: We don’t actually care about all points of view some let’s distract everyone from the real new story this month, “The laptop from hell”. But let’s not mention that.
@@bryanleverett2830
Imagine being against social equity and helping people... just fuckin imagine being that self-centered and ignorant.
Probably call yourselves "Christan," too...smfh.
Keeping children without protection in a hotel?... something about that makes my stomach uneasy
I know. What's to stop those shady jerks who are answerable to nothing and no one from taking advantage of those poor kids? It's disgusting.
It's pry worse than we think! 💙🙏
Just because they did not admit who they were to a stranger trying to forcefully gain access to the children, doesn't mean they're unaccountable to anyone.
It's definitely a matter of perspective. When you watch the video clip, you COULD have the perspective that the two men were protecting the hotel full of children from any rando that happens to walk in demanding to see them.
But no by all means, go ahead and throw some gas on that fire...
When it comes down to it you're just pissed that the random man and his cameraman weren't able to wander around showing you a video of the children and their environment, there was some sort of force preventing him from doing so.... If I had to pick a word for it I might call it... Protection.
Because that could easily be child sex trafficking considering the lack of uniforms, honesty, and violence against an immigration attorney?
Canada actually had a "safe 3rd country agreement" with the US so that asylum seekers could only seek asylum in one of the 2 countries. That was until a few months ago when the Canadian courts deemed the law illegal because the process and treatment in the US has deteriorated so badly that it would likely lead to inhumane conditions or harm/death for the asylum seekers by turning them back the US.
Canada is a lot stricter about their immigration policy than the US. Part of why their country is better than ours. They don't take in every random person. You can't even move there unless you can prove you have a skill they find useful
@@MissKK660 you're not wrong, though asylum is a different process than standard immigration
@@MissKK660 Go move to Canada, then, if you think they're so much better.
Me, I'd rather stay here and... how do you say... "Make America Great Again"? Starting, perhaps, by repairing our reputation as a "safe 3rd country" with one of our staunchest allies and neighbors?
@@SirMonday How exactly are you making America great again? Like what are you actually doing? How are you repairing America's reputation?
@@jpkuremi Are you asking me, personally? I'm doing what little I personally can do to uphold this country's reputation -- being accepting and tolerant and supporting the policies that would result in a better reputation as a country willing to cooperate on equal terms and help the international community.
But the intention of my comment (which you seem to have missed) is to point out that the USA losing its status as a "safe 3rd party country" for Canada's asylum policies is detrimental to its international reputation, and that fixing this by having a sensible, humane, and sympathetic policy towards asylum seekers would go towards repairing that reputation.
When the president of El Salvador is a more proficient English speaker than Donald Trump.
And also admits the system is flawed instead of blabbering for 2 minutes about how the huge asylum system is the bigliest, beautifulliest system in the world (ask anyone) despite also being awful, the worst and a disgrace which needs to be abolished and replaced by walls.
If migrants can organize a list of who's next in line for asylum claims despite their trauma, we last week tonight watchers can organize a response to some of the bullshit our government is doing. To anyone reading this comment: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GIVE MONEY TO MIGRANT & ASYLUM-SEEKER AID ORGANIZATIONS IN MEXICO.
BBVA is a well-respected research institution. They made a list of migrant shelters in Mexico - you can download the list from this link, although the list is in Spanish: www.bbvaresearch.com/en/publicaciones/map-2020-of-migrant-houses-shelters-and-soup-kitchens-for-migrants-in-mexico/
Some organizations on the list have Facebook pages and/or websites. La Casa de Oracion del Migrant in Tijuana, for example, has a Facebook page you can check out to give them support.
Here are some other generally well-respected aid organizations that serve migrants in & near Mexico.
www.borderangels.org
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/countries/mexico
*Migrant shelters desperately need medical services during COVID!
slate.com/technology/2020/04/coronavirus-migrant-shelters-mexico.html
This slate article contains a list of shelters.
www.cnbc.com/2019/06/26/how-to-donate-to-help-migrant-children-at-the-border.html
The CNBC article is fro 2019, but it lists organizations that aid migrants & asylum seekers.
best salvi president
@@ainumahtar what...
He’s pretty good looking too ☺️
"You Had a Decent Weekend, Let Me Fix That Shit with John Oliver" is one of my favorite shows.
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Why do we keep doing it? I'm not even American.
lol Wow, it's sad but so true. I was just watching it thinking "I love this show but I always leave a bit depressed."
If migrants can organize a list of who's next in line for asylum claims despite their trauma, we last week tonight watchers can organize a response to some of the bullshit our government is doing. To anyone reading this comment: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GIVE MONEY TO MIGRANT & ASYLUM-SEEKER AID ORGANIZATIONS IN MEXICO.
BBVA is a well-respected research institution. They made a list of migrant shelters in Mexico - you can download the list from this link, although the list is in Spanish: www.bbvaresearch.com/en/publicaciones/map-2020-of-migrant-houses-shelters-and-soup-kitchens-for-migrants-in-mexico/
Some organizations on the list have Facebook pages and/or websites. La Casa de Oracion del Migrant in Tijuana, for example, has a Facebook page you can check out to give them support.
Here are some other generally well-respected aid organizations that serve migrants in & near Mexico.
www.borderangels.org
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/countries/mexico
*Migrant shelters desperately need medical services during COVID!
slate.com/technology/2020/04/coronavirus-migrant-shelters-mexico.html
This slate article contains a list of shelters.
www.cnbc.com/2019/06/26/how-to-donate-to-help-migrant-children-at-the-border.html
The CNBC article is fro 2019, but it lists organizations that aid migrants & asylum seekers.
Calling asylum a loophole is like calling a door a hole in the wall. It’s there because it’s supposed to be used.
no truer words are said
Typical Trump politics unfortunately and he's still going to try to get away with not accepting the result of the election. For a great analysis of how the election will unfold and how a disputed election would go down check out: ruclips.net/video/GtstCIIkOAI/видео.html&ab_channel=MyTake
It's there to be used for legitimate case of persecution on the basis of race, religion, political opinion, etc.. A lot of asylum claims are made on the basis of being a victim of crime, which isn't what the asylum process is for. That's an issue for their local law enforcement.
There are plenty of articles with asylum seekers telling their stories. Many come because of job opportunities and the hope of sending back money to their families. Those are not a refugee, those are an economic migrants.
@@HoangNguyen-hv1qy Did you not watch the episode? "Gang violence" not being political is a fabrication of our crime boss president.
You don't know what it's like listening to Bertha say how scared she is in a language that you consider your home language. It was absolutely heartbreaking and I won't ever be able to forget her voice and the words she spoke.
her response saying "they are looking for me" haunts me. I just can't believe someone would deny her protection. This is utterly disgusting.
Its crazy how I’ve been watching John for like 7 years now holy shit
He’s going to die one day and we’d both try to figure out why anybody would replace him. I don’t even want to be informed after that
that is so minor compared to what the fuck we just learned. grow up.
Me too...wonder how long it'll take you to figure out he's been feeding you one lie after another. Took me until a couple months ago. Now I feel like a fool for being a fan for so long.
It's like Jon Stewart. After he retired, the show just isn't the same. It became a dumpster fire without him.
I know right? 😂 Man time does fly.
I think the no-audience format has really benefited this show. John don't have to lean into jokes too much while waiting and signaling the audience to stop laughing. He can now just go off on grim subjects without prioritizing laughs.
I definitely think the more recent episodes are some of their best. If this format and tone keeps up, I wouldn’t mind.
It's like the best of Cody Johnston's "Some More News" format, minus the socialism. I wouldn't mind if John kept this format through all of next year, too.
@@pbfreespace3134 oh hey i love cody's showdy
I agree 100%, I think the quicker pace is much better and I think the jokes are funnier too.
Yes I hate audiance laugh reactions
Imagine how many fewer people would need to claim asylum is the US government (under both major parties) didn't have a long, consistent history of knocking over governments as well as funding, training, and arming cartels and terrorists all over the planet.
I'm so fucking glad somebody brought this up.
Oh the irony
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
True.
Those shots are a direct hit, bro. You must have experience shooting facts.
"I am very fearful for my life"
*Crowd laughs*
Hmmm, that kinda sums up the reaction I have regarding certain police officers.
*We laugh to stop ourselves from crying*
@James Franko why should we leave our home? When you have cockroaches in your house, you don't leave. You get rid of the roaches.
That’s horrible! I’m really sorry to hear that.
I don't know if they are misapplied laugh tracks. I suspect so. His crowd often hoot with laughter at terrible and tragic incidents. I am not sure if even American audiences are actually that barbaric.
Land of opportunity is the best joke America ever told.
That's not true. There's plenty of opportunity for the rich and high class.
to be fair, America never specified what kind of opportunity...
My hope is that this new generation of progressives will be able to finally make the American Dream a reality.
@@Adrian2140 Don't be bitter because you have nothing. The top billionaires are all self made. They got there because they change the world not complaining.
@@smith97320 How does billionaire boot taste?
"I show them my countdown timer, they show me their scars", I felt that one...we all felt that one..
The irony of Trump's speech being given in front of the American Jewish Congress is hurting my brain. Are they cheering on sending the boat back by the German?
Basically yes. Anne Frank was a rejected asylum seeker.
They just don’t care anymore since “we are safe and comfortable now” fark everyone else who is facing the exact same thing we were facing 80 years ago...
They have always been giant hippocrates . Always !
@@232pk 😭
As a Jew, I am deeply hurt and betrayed by all Jews who support Trump. If, as a Jew, you support his policies, you have forgotten what happened to your people. You're dead to me.
“A Trump official saying his actions have nothing to do with immigration is about as believable as Cookie Monster saying his actions have nothing to do with cookies. Because of course they do, they are the thing you are so obsessed with it literally makes you a monster.”
-John Oliver
What a roast!
@Karan Kapoor okay, Karen.
@Karan Kapoor Fake News Comment
Well, he did eat John's tie.
@@TechGroupF430i I don't like the use of "Karen", but that surely was fitting.
John would know, since he co-hosted with the Cookie Monster once.
I´m a mexican sociologist, part of my work is interview inmigrants at our asylums, they can be there maximum for about a week, eat, sleep, have new clothes and then leave... is not easy to hear their stories, see the pain and sadness in their eyes, the fear to be kidnapped or murdered for some stupid loyalty test to enter the cartel... None had told me that they are leaving their country for fun. My coworkers normally asks "Why you don´t stay here in mexico?" and the answer is the same, they are not safe, USA and Canada are their promised land, everyone say that that country is a dream come true, the land of the free... I love my country but some parts for some people are hell or even worse. Please vote, i know that your country is full, that is scary to meet new people but please, this men and women are some of the warmest people that i even known. There is shitty people from time to time like in every group, but you are saving lifes.
@Dzooky P2P It's clear most "conservatives" don't understand what created the rampant violence & problems in the countries the majority of migrants are fleeing. Psst, it started with the good ol' USA.
@Dzooky P2P Except border walls have been tried for decades with no success because the vast majority of illegal immigrants don't enter the country illegally, they outstay their welcome after entering legally. Same with drugs- they enter through legal points of entry hidden in amongst legal goods.
Not to mention the fact that, as we have seen on this very show, the wall design that Drumpf has selected doesn't even need a ladder to climb over; Just a good grip and a knowledge of how to climb barred fences.
And even if it DID require a ladder, as it has been said in the past, "A 50ft wall just creates a market for 51ft ladders."
@Dzooky P2P we are talking about people seeking for asylum, the border wall means nothing in that specific topic, they are doing legal paperwork. But you are right in the needed war, narcos are not people that you can talk with.
I would never get how the right could put a negative connotation in the word progress.
@Dzooky P2P that weird moment when you lived in greece, which as a single country, had twice the amount of refugees seek asylum as the entire USA, yet still managed. ( Sure it makes a huge loss on all the refugees it takes in, but that's why the european union helps out.) So riddle me this, why is the US incapable of handling even half the amount of reguees as a single country, while ironically spending astronomically more money on it?
PS: "because the USA can't make a profit from refugees" is a legit reason. As long as you accept the moral consequences that come from it.
It is disturbing to me, as a Jew, to hear other Jews laughing at bigotry coming from someone who is supposed to be the President of the United States.
Reminds me of when Art Spiegelman’s dad in Maus was racist against the black hitchhiker they picked up in their car
You obviously have never been to Israel. The jewish there learned well from their would be murderers in Nazis. Anti arab and (really) anti-anything thats not Jewish slurs stream out of people's mouths in a rate that'd make a KKK member blush over there.
Humans are humans everywhere. Same evil inside us all. Dont matter the race or creed. Dont delude yourself into thinking some people are better than others just by the (ironic, isn't it) religion they adhere or the skin color they possess.
We are all evil.
Not to mention that US sent away a ship of Jews fleeing Germany shortly before the WW2 broke out
How is this anything new?
Me to it’s disgusting to think people for get camps kids getting put in camps lost their families
"I show them count down timer, they show me their scars" is chilling statement.
It was written for effect. very sensationalistic.
I'm an immigration lawyer in Phoenix, Arizona. Thank you for your well- researched information as usual. This is all accurate.
My ex wife was an immigration lawyer that sabotaged my green card and I am in limbo.
Ironically, native Americans aren’t in the ingredients in the “great American Melting pot”
Because they don't need to be? They are native Americans, why would they need to melt into anything. They were there first.
@@markwong6548 not according to white supremacists.
Neither or aboriginal americans. All them need to get off this land lol
@@JasonDoe1000 Why would Native Americans prefer to be called Indians? You realize Indians are from a large country called India?
@@JasonDoe1000 As Columbus discovered the Americas and did not land in North America, he named the people where he landed "Indians" as he thought he had landed in India.
If the Native Americans wanted to identify themselves as the wrong thing, that's kinda their problem isn't it? it'd be like me calling myself French just because some other moron thought he reached France.
“The English are basically the cilantro of the human race”
...
That’s it.
He’s done it
He’s found the best way to describe the English.
Cilantro is commonly used in Mexican cuisine... And it's good, very good...
There’s a reason no American ever says “I’m one-quarter English”. English is seen as the default ethnicity. You can be seven-eights English and one-eighth Italian, and you’ll probably call yourself Italian
I would say that joke fell flat, because it can be argued that cilantro is actually good for you. Unlike the English
I think John has the thing that makes cilantro tastes like soap. Because I do like cilantro on tacos.
Cilantro actually tastes good, in addition to being good for you.
I am an immigrant who came to America when I was 5 years old and have yet to become a citizen at the age of 23, I am currently a permanent resident which allowed me to get a job after high-school. I love my mother for taking care of me by doing her best, so hearing stories like these really break my heart
Excellent work.
I hope someday soon you get your citizenship.
On behalf of all decent American citizens, I deeply apologize. Something our shithole President will NEVER do.
Hope you're able to get your citizenship soon! Honestly several of the people I work with would likely be dead or homeless had they tried to come here just a couple years later than they did
Thank you kind people :-)
Grown men keeping children prison in hotel rooms, wow that sounds so damn creepy.
And as history has shown many times for children/vulnerable people in similar situations, they are probably being abused and raped by their captors. If you aren't doing anything illegal, why do you hide it behind closed doors? It's disgusting what people in positions of power are able to get away with.
'creepy' really is the right word. I really hope they are okay in there, given what priests apparently do when left alone with children for long enough, I shudder to imagine what quick-to-anger contractors do. As Xiao says, why behind closed doors, why? I mean we know they are in there, so why hide it all, why not let lawyers in??
And not identifying themselves, using force to keep people off the entire floor, not allowing them to see any lawyers are be provided any support. This entire system is just designed to break up families and leave them ill prepared for a legal system that’s been weaponised against them
@@MrXiaoqiao if i had not already heard about allegations of ICE agents doing assaults i'd say you are a Bit quick to accusations there
Honestly that entire situation is creepy as shit. There's no way that's not just a rich person brothel ffs. What is that monster doing that we _aren't_ aware of? There's no way they're gonna reveal all Trump's crimes. He's too big to fail.
If any other president came on stage and began speaking like Trump, we would assume they were intoxicated.
Or we would create another conspiracy group like QAnon
2020 rule: if you aint a boomer you cant president
Who's to say he isnt
I think the most terrifying part is that Trump does not drink. The stuff he says and does, comes from a sober person.
No kidding! He’s off his rocker!
I’m worried about what happened to Berta’s granddaughter, I hope she’s okay:(
me too D:
Me as well. Praying for their peace and safety right now.
ChiChi there is still a "detention center" in Homestead FL housing 13-18 year olds. And the Trump supporters are worried about 'human trafficking'. ....😳
@Knee Grow Requesting asylum is legal. Did you even watch the video???
Don't hope, vote. It's the only thing that might help her. Everything else is just "thoughts and prayers" in the face of trafficking, rape, torture, and murder.
Good day:
I'm from Mexico I live in state of Yucatán here the violence is really low but instead in other regions of the country hare very different and essentially really bad, I just want to say thank you for this particular content and for all the personal or staff that work in this greatest show, my respect and admiration for all of you are really making America great again.
Thank you
Sincerely Alberto Gonzalez Franco.
We are sorry about the current situation. Trump won despite not getting the popular vote thanks to an antiquated system designed to cater to wealthy land owners. I hope we can fix this.
@@Ananamitron tku best of all.
From America to my fellow human being Alberto Franco: We hear you.
Hermano, me da mucho orgullo saber que no soy el único en ver a John Oliver desde México...
Es cierto, USA no es nuestro país...
Y con mucha suerte, pertenecemos a la pequeña parte de afortunados de aquí...
Pero considero muy importante lo que ocurre allá porqué, literalmente, se trata del país más influyente en el mundo, y sucede que muchos miran en esa dirección cuando buscan esperanza y un futuro (el que sea) decente...
En mi humilde opinión, no se trata de que ellos resuelvan los problemas del mundo...
Sería muy egoísta pedir eso.
Tienen muchísimas broncas allá para estar preocupandose por las de otros...
Pero es sumamente importante que las resuelvan con sensatez, humildad, amor y en general humanidad.
Porque el resto del mundo está poniendo atención.
Me da muchísimo gusto saber que mucha gente allá sigue buscando hacer las cosas bien, quizá al menos un poco mejor que lo que lo hacen ahora, y que la gente de aquí, aún si no es mucha, empieza a elegir las cosas con sensatez.
Tuve la fortuna de ir en un viaje de trabajo a Mérida, y puedo decirte que es un lugar hermoso para vivir, y tristemente tengo que confirmar que en otros lugares de México, está muy difícil, muy feo...
Y yo sé que en este caso en particular, es muy complicado...
Hablamos de gente sin un lugar a donde ir.
Que acude a ese país, con el corazón en sus manos rogando por ayuda...
Seguro que no todos los casos pueden llamarse asilo...
Pero un buen programa o plan para ello, no es uno donde la solución sea lo mismo que ocasiona el problema.
Apoyo por completo un programa que revise los casos a fondo y que solo admita a aquellos que de verdad lo requieran, quizá temporalmente, para que les apoye con, almenos, apuntandolos en la dirección correcta.
Quizá otro país (si es que de verdad ya no hay espacio en el tuyo), quizá una institución global...
O de perdida una salida que no sea el mismo lugar de donde tratas de refugiarte de...
No se trata de que los dejen entrar, claro que como dueño de tu casa, no vas a dejar entrar a cualquiera que te pide asilo...
Y más aún, aún si quisieras, no podrías aceptarlos a todos.
Para mí se trata de la forma.
De las intenciones.
Del ejemplo que le das a otros...
Otros que tienen casas, o que quizá algún día tendrán.
Es lo que les enseñamos a los que vienen en camino.
Los que van a conformar nuestro futuro y el de nuestras familias.
Y si estados unidos cree que no tiene influencia sobre el resto del mundo:
Soy ingeniero, con 6 años de experiencia en muchos campos, se 3 idiomas (además del mío), sostengo a 3 personas además de a mi mismo, y con humildad admito que soy muy dedicado y me considero de las pocas personas que se preocupan tanto por lo que reciben, como por lo que dan... Y hace 2 días, me rechazaron de un puesto allá por ser mexicano.
No me duele saber que no me necesitan o que no soy suficiente.
Me duele saber que el "no" proviene de algo sin sentido.
Siempre que se trata de algo como esto, no solo pierde un lado, pierden todos.
Ser humano, es buscar el beneficio mutuo, aunque sea el personal...
No que todos pierdan.
Eso es ser idiota.
Time for Latin America to change government corruption cartels gangs lack of opportunities latin america should be ashamed their citizens flee. it's 2020 time for them to change thier society's.
Shows how Q’Anon doesn’t give a damn about children
✨this✨
They should be losing their minds over that hotel scene, if that isn't fodder for a government pedophile ring conspiracy theory I don't know what is
@@Whofan06 My exact thought! I was scrolling down the comments to see if there were any comments about it. That clip was horrid.
Oh, absolutely!
QAnon Nutjobs: “the Democrats are stealing the kids”
Trump: **is literally stealing the kids**
Asylum Seekers: Cartel is trying to kill me
US Government: I missed the part where that’s my problem.
Tbh kinda maybe
“we must also acknowledge the role that a century of U.S.-backed military coups, corporate plundering, and neoliberal sapping of resources has played in the poverty, instability, and violence that now drives people from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras toward Mexico and the United States. For decades, U.S. policies of military intervention and economic neoliberalism have undermined democracy and stability in the region, creating vacuums of power in which drug cartels and paramilitary alliances have risen. In the past fifteen years alone, CAFTA-DR - a free trade agreement between the U.S. and five Central American countries as well as the Dominican Republic - has restructured the region’s economy and guaranteed economic dependence on the United States through massive trade imbalances and the influx of American agricultural and industrial goods that weaken domestic industries. Yet there are few connections being drawn between the weakening of Central American rural agricultural economies at the hands of CAFTA and the rise in migration from the region in the years since. In general, the U.S. takes no responsibility for the conditions that drive Central American migrants to the border.
U.S. empire thrives on amnesia. The Trump administration cannot remember what it said last week, let alone the actions of presidential administrations long gone that sowed the seeds of today’s immigration crisis. There can be no common-sense immigration “debate” that conveniently ignores the history of U.S. intervention in Central America. Insisting on American values of inclusion and integration only bolsters the very myth of American exceptionalism, a narrative that has erased this nation’s imperial pursuits for over a century.
As the British immigrant rights refrain goes, “We are here because you were there.” The adage holds no less true here and now. It’s time to insist that accepting Central American refugees is not just a matter of morality or American benevolence. Indeed, it might be better described as a matter of reparations.”
medium.com/s/story/timeline-us-intervention-central-america-a9bea9ebc148
They should fix their country.
@@Nasc3nt_Butt3rfly Reparations such as your suggestion are immoral. Your are asking people to pay for crimes they did not commit. So no.
@@whiskeysprings There own country that was broken by the USA?
We need an episode on executive orders. They're so confusing.
@elijah mikle thank you!
@elijah mikle that's very helpful, thank you
EVERYTHING the tRump administarion dose gives me a headache and if the world was fair he'd be struck by lightning every time he exhaled.
I'd rather have an episode on modern US militias, and the laws surrounding them. It would be really interesting considering most people don't understand their function. Plus this topic is extremely important in the current political climate, due to civil unrest.
he did one...
"I show them my countdown timer, they show me their scars." Chilling, and honestly infuriating!
Not gonna lie...I started weeping at that point.
The people making false asylum claims are the reason it takes so long and people in need get rejected. They create this situation.
@@spiloFTW there are opportunitists everywhere in all facets of life. we can either look at them and make policies for that or we can look at those that are honest and take the good with the bad for the larger benefit of humanitarianism. it kind of boils down to how you look at people and more specifically strangers. do you look at them and see a potential enemy or a potential friend?
I understand there has to be a cap to how much immigration you can support and there will be winners and losers with that in mind. Would help if more nations were more open to immigration though.
@@spiloFTW bs. If you accidentally send someone to jail it’s not the fault of all other criminals that put pressure on your court! It’s your fault!
As an asylum seeker who has been waiting for the case for three years... I just want to thank you for talking about this issue, truly, thank you!
Best of luck to you!
Holy cow, I've seen John being angry towards the end of an episode when some of the more outrageous/emotional things were mentioned, but I've never seen him so angry for the length of an episode. Not a lot of jokes too. Another example of how broken the US is.
@@nara-qv9pk exactly, the family separation episode is still too much even 2 years later
He was burning with anger the whole Breonna Taylor instalment.
@IKtheVS Man, you really must be kind of stupid if all you can do is copy and paste your own comments onto random threads.
@IKtheVS the root core is that the US overthrew a lot of democratically elected (Latin) American governments. Just google the School of the Americas. The US was/is behind the training of many death squads, mass rapes and mass murder. Maybe educate yourself on your own shitty history before insulting people?
@@1IGG took it out of my mouth there
Just saying, Title 42 would be a great name for a dystopian movie
so would SHADOW DEPORTATION
Well there's Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Similar title and topic too. All about a dystopian society where literature is banned 🚫
@• • I mean..yeah, because...obviously. But you look like a bot. And not even one of the high quality, _almost indistinguishable from a normal person_ bots.
Rather, like a very, very, VERY poorly trained bot, who hates their job, and wants to be as out there as possible, to declare to everyone that they are in fact, _a bot._
@@realzachfluke1 leave him alone. He's an artist.
If Drumpf is re-elected, we’ll be living in a Dystopian society
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Yeah, that's written on the Statue of Liberty. And I still get emotional everytime I read it.
I would like the country to be welcoming like that again. I want the song "This Land is Your Land" to be true, that this can really be a place where anyone can come.
Don't forget this was a different time of which US had a lot of benefits from immigrants which it by no means have had later on. Look at the youtube video "Foreign Born Population in the U.S. (1850-2019)".
Back then US had lots of natural ressources and few people. Thus by becoming more people these natural ressources would at a better extent be extracted and processed.
Since 1950 immigration has led US to become a worse country. By importing poor uneducated people it has led to weak labor unions which means worse pay for the lower class workers. As the females also became accustomed to work it meant you almost in an instant doubled the supply of educated middle class people. This led to worse pay of the middle class.
Then you have the insane increase of status seeking in the US. Due to this companies like Apple and Amazon has went to get monopolicies and due to the other factors at a crazy extent increased amount of people in poverty.
If you want a USA that is good because all of the people is wealthy and happy do not support immigration because you will end up like Bangladesh.
If you want a nation that is more prosperous than Norway, where everyone is happy and wealthy you need to stop immigration.
State of Liberty's anniversary opening in a couple of days. That poem is somewhere on the bottom. Poem also mentions her as "mother of exiles"
@@sebastianwallin3726 Hold up buddy... Please explain this: "By importing poor uneducated people it has led to weak labor unions which means worse pay for the lower class workers." How on earth does having a bunch of poor, uneducated people weaken the labor unions?? You don't need to be rich or educated to join a union; in fact unions are meant to help such people. The reason labor unions are weaker now than they used to be is because politicians & corporations have been doing everything in their power to weaken unions for decades. Because, surprise, the people in power don't like it when workers actually have the ability to demand better conditions for themselves.
Hail the Mother of Exiles, the New Colossus.
Seeing that poor Honduran woman in jail makes my blood boil.
"Just do it the legal way and your kids won't end up in concentration camps"
"Also we need less legal ways to come in."
Just say it out loud, Trump.
I AGREE The government's from LATIN AMERICA should be ashamed that their citizens flee government corruption gang violence and lack of opportunities !!!! The only real solution is changing their society's.
@@zizzte2956 "It sucks, but as long as it sucks OVER THERE it's fine."
@@zizzte2956 I mean, you're not saying ANYTHING. You're just recognizing a small part of the problem and suggesting it should be fixed. Do you think anyone would DISAGREE with you on that point? Of course not, but that doesn't make your suggestion a helpful solution, and it does NOTHING to address America's very hostile response to a situation you seem sympathetic towards.
@@zizzte2956 If their government should be ashamed for allowing the problem, how should our government feel about finding new ways to make it even worse?
@@CorruptPianist it's time for them to grow spiritually and mentally it's 2020 time for governments to take responsibility and thier society's.
My parents are immigrants who have been in the US for over 25 years. My dad was just pulled over, arrested and sent to an immigration detention center for not having a government ID (You need a SSN to have one). He is now being sent to mexico next week, leaving me, my mom, and my 7 little brothers and sisters alone with only myself as a source of income working at a fast food joint. I have no savings, I have no other family members. Dear God please help me take care of my family and protect my dad from any harm
7 brothers and sisters sounds like too many
So what you mean to say is that your parents are illegal immigrants not immigrants?
the rest of your family should be going there too, tbh
🙏🏽❤️
Don't listen to the haters. Living in a country for so long should give some type of residency.
I am not expert but a social worker might be able to help. There is also food banks.
Reach out to your community, there are good people out there.
I feel like the blank void takes its toll on John. His performance is getting more and more intense.
But it suits his stories very well.
By blank void, do you mean the empty studio with the plain background, or the current state of the world?
@@movietimeateds69 Thx. I Hate it
@@movietimeateds69 I think he meant both. But the intensity suits him, he's edging closer to Zazu on cocaine every week.
I dont think it's the blank void at all. John can deal with that easily. It's what the fuck is actually going on in this country that has him so upset and intense in his criticism. John is doing important work. Hes so far ahead of the daily show and late night talk show hosts
It's not the void, but all that is outside of it.
I walked away from the majority of my online "friends" over this election. I don't regret it for a second.
That took strength. I try not to make assumptions online, but I do hope that the result has been (in the end) a good one for you.
@@clockworkkirlia7475 I'm a fan of a rock band with a lot of people I only know online. So while it's been fun, none of these people are part of my real life, so it wasn't that difficult to drop them. I'll probably meet some of them again when ever live concerts are a thing again, but I don't see any more long conversations happening.
The horrific reality is that the number of kids being sexually assaulted in those hotels is likely quite high.
If Q-Anon wanted to be serious about child safety...
Here's their thing to focus on. But they won't.
And the Trump Administration and the GOP who are enabling will not allow anyone in to verify reports and gather evidence.
Why do you think Trump's Republican fascist kid raping goons were so desperate to get the press out of there.
That was literally the only thing I could think as well
Who is sexually assualting them?
If migrants can organize a list of who's next in line for asylum claims despite their trauma, we last week tonight watchers can organize a response to some of the bullshit our government is doing. To anyone reading this comment: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GIVE MONEY TO MIGRANT & ASYLUM-SEEKER AID ORGANIZATIONS IN MEXICO.
BBVA is a well-respected research institution. They made a list of migrant shelters in Mexico - you can download the list from this link, although the list is in Spanish: www.bbvaresearch.com/en/publicaciones/map-2020-of-migrant-houses-shelters-and-soup-kitchens-for-migrants-in-mexico/
Some organizations on the list have Facebook pages and/or websites. La Casa de Oracion del Migrant in Tijuana, for example, has a Facebook page you can check out to give them support.
Here are some other generally well-respected aid organizations that serve migrants in & near Mexico.
www.borderangels.org
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/countries/mexico
*Migrant shelters desperately need medical services during COVID!
slate.com/technology/2020/04/coronavirus-migrant-shelters-mexico.html
This slate article contains a list of shelters.
www.cnbc.com/2019/06/26/how-to-donate-to-help-migrant-children-at-the-border.html
The CNBC article is fro 2019, but it lists organizations that aid migrants & asylum seekers.
John Oliver: “If you ask the cops for help and they throw you in detention, you’d be absolutely furious.”
Me: “You’d probably also be Black.”
John Oliver: “You’d probably also be Black.”
Me: 👁👄👁
As Biden would say “you ain’t black”
Maybe in the 1950s lol
@@untcutomz4040 As trump would say, "eww he's black."
@@QuesoGr7 no, we're talking about today. Are you saying you haven't heard all the examples of black people calling the police for help, only to be shot themselves because the cops roll in too trigger-ready and "mistake" them for a threat?
@@LK-qk8fm
Yes there are trigger happy cops in this country, but compared to number of police encounters a year by black people, its really not that often. This notion of us getting gunned down by cops "because we're black" really needs to stop. If we're going to have an honest discussion about police brutality and accountability, let's just be honest.
Our president really out here mocking "i feared for my life" while he believes it from every scummy cop that gets called out for doing horrible shit. smh
Seeing the US President mocking people who fear for their life makes me so so angry. Disgusting.
@cesarl2 Exactly, Imagine tear gassing peaceful protestors just to take a photo at a church and then have the audacity to say that he's "done the most for african americans except maybe possibly lincoln" how the hell did america fuck up this badly, hell this bastard got past impeachment and it's starting to look like he's getting past his tax evasion too, im so so tired of this fool.
And is insulting the place he actually did it. Like the holocaust did not have to do with these things. The only worse people in that place were the ones who laughed with him.
I am political refugee from formerly socialist country. Sat in refugee camp for 7 months looking for a country that would give me asylum. Most of other refugees in the camp were economic migrants exchanging ideas and phrases what to say to immigration officers to increase chances to be admitted as political refugees. "I fear for my life" was actually one of recommended phrases. By the time of my interview in US embassy I was already sentenced to 4 years prison term and confiscation of property for illegally leaving my socialist country.
i myself am an asylum seeker right now waiting for the interview. wish me the best of luck !
You got this easy
Yes I wish I can do more
What skills will you be bringing with you
I think John Oliver is the only person that can make laugh and cry at the same time, in just 20minutes!
It's a love hate relationship that we have grown accustomed to. Lol
True story. I love his jokes, but that immigration attorney quote brought tears to my eyes. This video should be everywhere.
As a legal immigrant from Honduras I wept so hard. Remaining in your home country while you wait to be processed means children will be raped. Ask me how I know. 😢😢
I don't know about laughing. I can't recall the last time I laughed.
He and Colbert have been Helping me get through these past four years with some of my sanity intact.
Steven Miller being called a Minion is an insult to Minions.
Steve Miller is married. I'm wondering if she was postage due, or did she just wake up from a 10 year coma. Because I can't see anyone with a functional brain willingly even being in the same building with him romantically.
“ Cilantro of the human race”
The writer who came up with that line deserves a raise.
this episode broke me; I've never cried from watching this show even though John has been discussing increasingly heartbreaking stories as the years go on, but this is just so so horribly sad. My heart breaks for these asylum seekers. you can hear the anger in John's voice
I’m crying too
Every episode of this show plunges me deeper into depression.
This season has been very depressing
Let's turn that sadness into anger, turn that anger into hope, and turn that hope into action👍
This show is the real time chronology of the decline of the US empire.
Back in 2017 I stopped watching this show and the Phillip Defranco show (which are my main sources of news) for about 6-8 months. It was only after I got my job where I try to help people every day that I allowed myself to actively watch things that would make me depressed. Because at least I'm doing my part. I watch episodes like this and wonder when I'll need to take a break again, when will the positivity I try to create not be enough to balance out the negativity of the news.
Seeing beyond the lies is terrifying. The USA is a not much better place for non-whites then Afghanistan, North Korea or Russia in general. It's mind boggling that persons who enforce the American Immigration rules are supposedly human beings. And they are probably proud about each person that they denied asylum for. Shame on you USA.
Estimado John Oliver y equipo de producción de 'Last Week Tonight', en serio considero importantísimo que estas denuncias en particular tengan su propia versión oficial en español! sea con un invitado que cuente el mensaje o con la versión original pero agregando subtítulos en español, como hicieron cuando hablaron de flexibilización laboral y mercadeo multinivel. De verdad me parece muy importante!
Quien lo considere igual porfavor like para que lo vean!
Esteemed John Oliver and 'Last Week Tonight' production team, seriously I consider it is very important that this particular complaint have it´s own official version in Spanish! either with a guest who can narrate the message or using the original version but adding in it subtitles in Spanish, just as you did when you talked about labor flexibility and multilevel marketing. I really believe that this is very important!
Whoever agrees with me, please like this so they will see it!
I couldn't agree more. There must be some money in the LWT budget that could be allocated to that purpose. Excellent comment, Juan.
Google translation: No podría estar mas de acuerdo. Debe haber algo de dinero en el presupuesto de LWT que pueda asignarse a ese propósito. Excelente comentario, Juan.
You can turn subtitles on
Absolutely!!!
@@SimonVanliew26 Subtitles are only available in English on this video.
Siempre puedes descargar el torrent del episodio y seguramente hay quien publique subtitulos en internet. Intenta con PopcornTime.
I can't thank you enough for doing this story. As someone who works in this field, you really did it justice. Thank you.
Unsure which part you work in, but I am wishing for the best regardless, keep up the good work.
Loved how that School House Rock at the beginning had “Africans” as if Africa is a country. 😂
I know the U.S. will never learn...just can't help themselves.
I think it was just avoiding saying enslaved Africans
Seems easier to say “Africans” than to list 54 different nationalities doesn’t it? I don’t get upset when people call me American instead of “Pennsylvanian”....
Its not united States of Africa. 54 different languages and cultures. You know, like Europe.
@@gracemaguri6110 It is the same principle. You are extremely sensitive if this non-issue actually bothers you. Do you also get offended when somebody refers to you as "human" because it is too general a term? If you are an inhabitant of the continent of Africa, you are African; is this not correct? You guys are so desperate to find anything to complain about, even if there's nothing really there. Get a hobby.
Once again, I’m crying on a John Oliver episode. That grandma broke my heart. 😢
I know, It's really depressing that we cannot tell the difference between a drugged up gang member to a poor grandmother trying to escape a bad life.
@@GamingTheGames they can tell they are just so consumed by hatred they don’t care.
I have to say, as someone living in Europe, I am HIGHLY interested in the young voter turnout this time around.
They are turning out in droves! Thankfully!
I can tell you that early turn out from both mail-in and in-person is high. As for the new voters (Those who turned 18 since the last election), enthusiasm is high and have seen higher registration rates than ever. There are people in their 60s who are voting for the first time in their lives.
they are voting in exponentially higher numbers than the generations before them did at the same age.
I sent mine off even though it's just another drop off water in the ocean here in deep blue NY (another tick for Biden). Honestly I dunno if everyone is gonna vote. Hopefully we vote these clowns out
Many of us are voting for Trump.
The whole ‘deal’ with this country is striving for a place where everyone can do/be better, that children can do better than parents and so forth. Seeing things like this should prompt far more than outrage. That lady is someone’s grandma...
@Pat Mgroin Hence 'deal.'
I get the response "but they broke the law" when I bring up the child separation policy....
I don't get entirely what you said, but what I do get, is that America can improve significantly because it's their pride, liberty, inheritance and rights that makes them more confident and possible in achieving goals and dreams that makes it more unique than any other country. Even though the setbacks reveal obstacles, like inequality in all forms of humaneness, violence, disasters and diseases, etc. But the few will triumph succeedingly and their legacy will be remembered! Let's be real, If there's no America, there's no video games. Lest you'd be playing goh with China for the rest of your lives!
If seeing anyone suffered prompted outrage then slavery would've ended after the firs few days. You sound so stupid pretending Amerikkka has ppl capable of sympathy. Killing the racists and white supremacists destroying this world is the only way to get things done.
@@effyoo6081 The worst type of person is someone who walks through a door opened by others and locks it behind them. Your wife's* family immigrating over is the same as "I have a black friend". The system has worked in the past, but it's been purposely set up not to work currently. Glad your wife's* family immigrated over legally, but that process can take 20 years now.. tell someone who's survival is on the line to just hang around for 20 years and you'll see if you can get to them. Yeah, sure. Your post is full of Xenophobic garbage and I can only assume your wife* secretly hates you for being a racist. Good luck with all that.
*The wife probably does not exist.
I love you, John, thank you for being a nerver ceaselessly pointing out injustice
Can't wait for John's episode after the election
Agreed 😂
I just want to see the collective meltdown of all late night show hosts, once again
@@binitkumarsahu6527 hopefully Trump loses so it’s only Fox freaking out 😂
You don’t need to worry about that. Trumps gonna win and we will all experience the nuclear apocalypse
@@binitkumarsahu6527 ► No way! Trump won't win this time...
Americans: We have such an unwanted immigration problem!
Native Americans: Tell me about it...
The audacity of people who argue this, when Native Americans are still suffering from the repercussions and are still being oppressed never fails to suprise me.
Not sure if this is clear in my comment, I mean people who say "we have a problem with immigration" (normally white people)
True cos most of the natives died of influenza just as white settlers intended
@Furry OP whatever ya name is.
Don't just judge Americans.
All countries have blood on thier hands even look at my home country Australia. We wiped out raped and killed the aboriginals and are notorious for sending people to offshore detention centres where lots commit suicide due to inhumane conditions. This year someone even set themself on fire because they were sick of being stuck on that prison and couldn't even get sent back to Iraq and was denied entry into Australia so he was stuck in this prison for years like many others. For committig no crime but simply seeking asylum.
The fact that you say Native Americans and not specific tribes tells me how little you actually care. Natives had nations. Those nations had slavery, warfare, and abuse, but keep drinking the koolaid
It hurts so much to see Berta’s suffering, she physically resembles my grandma a lot. The ruthless treatment dispensed to asylum seekers that John showed is plain disgusting.
@Mary Ray you say 'just vote' but remember, Hillary got 3 million MORE votes than trump.
That really hurt me too...she’s an elderly person they’re rejecting to help..lord
Why does her country want her dead?
@@bothi00 If Trump loses again, then it will be another tool to use against him
And if enough people vote in enough states then the electoral college will also vote against him.
@@FlappyBelly she is running from the cartel, not her government. They tried to make her 12-year-old granddaughter a child bride and when she refused, they threatened to kill her so she fled.
I've learned more about history, current events, and the world watching this show than I ever learned in school or from the news. John Oliver may not be a teacher, but he deserves the Teacher of the Year award every year for life. Keep up the good work!
...comments like this remind me how different schools can be and how lucky I was to go to a school that was fully funded.
Admittedly, my school didn't teach me everything but they were pretty explicit about subjects like immigration and racism.
what makes this more sickening is that those who are telling these people to "just go back home and die" keep claiming they are "pro life"
Pro Life until the baby is LGBTIA, of color, poor, inmigrant or has a disability (because, yes, they keep voting laws that make life hard for disabled people and keep them in the poverty line),
They aren't pro life they are pro birth
@@darkatthecore or just anti-choice, because if they were even pro-birth then they would help with the hospital bills -_-
@@Rime_in_Retrograde that's largely true with this group of people but not everyone who is pro life is anit womens choice or rights. I think people who are pro life get a bad rap because of these people and I think there is a mature adult conversation to be had about whether a fetus has rights but these people just fucking ruin it
@@uncuentofriki3635 It doesn't matter what the baby is. After the baby is born it can be thrown in the trash to die for all these "pro life" people care. They are anti-woman, not pro-life.
Well, you know John Oliver has gotten salter over the years when he attacks his best friend, the Cookie Monster.
We always lash out at those we are closest to. 😪
And his clothes have shifted from "you can totally wear a plaid shirt as part of a suit" to "well, who's in a funeral mood this week? This suit sure is".
I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that he is now a US citizen and feels that he can speak more freely.
@@rittherugger160 he only went to us because he failed in britain as a comedian...
A "billionaire" who scammed/is scamming the system is complaining about asylum seekers potentially scamming the system.
AND he's doing so while married to someone who illegally entered the country and then "chain migrated" her parents into the country.
I liked what he said about chain-migration...while he was processing the chain-migration of his parents in law. America realy has the most crazy anti-imigrant people in the world.
@@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460 She didn't enter the country illegally. She came on a tourist visa, did a modeling gig before she applied for a work visa. She eventually got her work visa and that was it. To obtain a tourist visa she would have had to be vetted by the US embassy in her country of origin first. Illegals enter the country without being vetted at all. They could be criminals for all we know.
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@@HoangNguyen-hv1qy
Doing a gig without a work permit is illegal too.
People have been denied entry to the US because they offered to babysit for a friend they were visiting.
www.spiegel.de/lebenundlernen/schule/usa-einreise-abgelehnt-20-jaehrige-wegen-facebook-chat-abgewiesen-a-1046792.html
I'd just like to note that its been a very long time since this was a comedy show. I cannot describe how much I appreciate it. I never thought I'd trust comedians bringing news more than the news, but here we are....
every episode in quarantine has just been john getting angrier and angrier. honestly same
Man please don't ever bring back the mindless audience laughter. I don't think anyone misses it.
Honestly in that regard i think this show has accordingly and accidentally gotten a right tone shift, john isn't really sugarcoating it much anymore, this is now a straight history channel with an angry left political flavour, and I'm all here for it.
@@ShadowJonathan absolutely. And unlike all the other American talk show hosts, John is actually pretty funny. So, he doesn't have to peer pressure us into laughing.
I'd be glad if he returned to a studio sans audience laughter. Just for John's sake, because he seemed happier working there.
@IKtheVS what a load of BS. Do you work for the GOP?
Well I actually quite liked it, but this is not bad too.
Guys who look like they should be in the UFC, reading from a lawyer prepared statement about how they "feared for their life" to escape consequences... sooooo..... Police?
oh shit
I'm surprised this doesn't have more likes. I'd like it 10x if I could
I've lived in the US_Mexico border all my life, and I don't remember any program, documentary or talk show address migrant, asylum, or any issue from a clear and honest approach, fearless of repercussions and with such sarcastic talent. I'm convinced that we foreigners have a better, non bias overview of things happening in the US. So refreshing. Thank you John Oliver.
You know, normally men who refuse to identify themselves holding terrified children and violently throwing out anyone who tries to talk to the kids get a SWAT team in response. If the cops won't do it for whatever reason, I think citizens mounting a rescue mission would be completely justified.
I hate Devil's advocating but, that's exactly what that pizzagate guy thought he was doing.
Why not just "SWAT" them and see of that "dont worry about who I am" line works on tear gas, tasers, and bullets?
*IT APPEARS TO BE JOHN BROWN O'CLOCK, MY GUYS*
@@LegoDork yeah but he was an idiot who went straight to shooting rather than going through the escalation from words to fisticuffs to, if necessary, firearms.
TRUMP: Asylum Program is a scam
ME: Tell that to your grandparents who immigrated to the US from Germany.
And Scotland
And Melania’s parents
Were they asylum seekers? Did they come during the last ten years?
The concept of asylum and refugees didn't exist prior to 1951. Trump's grandparents came through the regular immigration process in 1885. They weren't asylum seekers.
@@HoangNguyen-hv1qy That term didn't exist at that time, but judged with modern standards: 100% just economic reasons, they hoped for a better life in the USA
"I show them countdown timer, they show me their scars". Tears Rolling.
For some people a lot its at stake...
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@@Polyglot_English why?
@@Polyglot_English literal russian
@@diazinth His link is to a video game ad, I reported him. And not for the first time.
Justice for Berta!
It's absolutely heartbreaking to see what this poor woman has been put through. 💔
I cant imagine what theyre doing to those kids behind closed doors if they dont even allow a simple questioning. this is probably how they are going missing
Volunteers for epstein island. That's all I can imagine and it scares me.
Things got worse, apparently he's useless.
They were psychologically tortured and warned their parents were criminals and that's why they suffered.
Furthermore, it is likely some of the missing died and no doubt some disappeared in sex trafficking.
The real SaveTheChildren right here
I swear John has gotten to the point he’s angrier than tucker Carlson. The only difference is John is angry about things that we are all angry about.
And points people into directions of no violent action unlike fox hosts...
No just libtards. Everyone else is for the wall!
@@pickle87100 "Libtards" outnumber "everyone else"
@@pickle87100
Ok, feel free to pony up your money for it because I don't want to pay for it, especially since sections that have been built were blown over by wind.
@@pickle87100 No wall, he's too busy failing at every other campaign promise and task they put in front of him... Draining the swamp, he is the swamp, dumbass.
Can't we establish an official motto for US now?
"United States of America: We just don't f**king care. AT ALL."
Unless it's about what women do with their own body
'Murica: Fresh Oof
A little more than half of Americans (trCHump's supporters) are selfish AF, I only care for myself....not even caring about their family, friends or neighbors! SAD
#oneTERM45
#administrationREFORM
Many of the American people's representatives don't care, but they are representing a small minority of the country.
More like say. goodbye to the American dream and say hello to an international nightmare
This guy speaks my language. Hes the guy who will inspire me to run for president.
If your policy is strong and is for the good of EVERYONE, you better believe I will be your first voter!!!
Go get it!!!
This was terribly moving, almost brought me to tears.
Dios mio grow a pair
Yeah the old lady kind of pleading for her life was quite heart wrenching.
@@TyonKree Maybe grow a heart?
“They ask about the latest polls. I show them the countdown timer, they show me their scars” made me shed a tear
@@TyonKree yeah, hearing about people getting extorted, raped, kidnapped, murdered, separated from their children with these children being kept in makeshift prisons and being separated from their legal representatives is really light stuff...
It's just like Geezus said: "I would rather a thousand innocent grandmothers be set on fire than one UFC fighter become a citizen."
+1 internet for you
Horrendous, eh?
As a Hispanic myself, I can assure you that dark humor is pretty much imbedded into our culture
Same in Jewish culture. If you've been through it as a culture, it shows up in your humor.
@@jaimes6152 my friends and I say it all the time, if you dont click with dark humor, you ain’t Palestinian...tough shit my ppl go through everyday. :/
Any culture that has suffered enough has this kind of humour. Goes to show how humour can soften things up for people to easily accept the reality
Yeah we don't give a fuck haha. I remember going to the Artesanía in San Salvador and there was a t-shirt that said "I survived in El Salvador without any bullet above."
as a zoomer it's our culture as well. I think we'll get along splendidly
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” - Emma Lazarus, The Great Colossus.
The U.S. was never intended to be a "melting pot". The statue of liberty and its motto "e pluribus unum", "out of many, one", do *not* celebrate immigration. This has been constantly misconstrued and misrepresented for decades by leftwing, SJW, liberals.
The statue opened in 1886 and it was a gift from France to honor a 100 years of American independence from Britain. *It has absolutely nothing to do with America vying to except more and more immigrants into this country* but has everything to do about how the original 13 colonies came together to form one nation. Not immigrants coming from all over to form one people.
Emma Lazarus's poem, "The New Colossus", was installed in 1903, a decade and a half after her death. *This poem also has absolutely nothing to do with America vying to except more and more immigrants into this country* but has everything to do with Lazarus becoming interested in her Jewish ancestry as she heard about the horrific Russian programs of 1881.
I can't remember who said it, but it's been pointed out that the Statue's poem was just as radical when it was put up as it is now. It did not come at a great time for immigrants. They let them in, but they were persistently denigrated and discriminated against.
@@arberiesadiku5636 That still doesn't change the fact that the Statue of Liberty was never intended to represent or celebrate immigrants or immigration.
So I really don't get where you're coming from. Unless of course you're one of those people who needlessly go down the unrelated and inappropriate road of Native Americans were here first and we stole their land and slavery and racism, ect, ect. Yes. I know this, understand it, and I don't condone it either. Do the the means justify the ends? Of course not. But I'm not gonna deny the fact that that is exactly how other countries, including how the Native Americans, have fought for and acquired land and how they mistreated other people since the beginning of man kind. No country didn't get to where they are now by playing it nice.
Why does the US have to be the only country in the world to feel sorry and apologize for it's past even though every country is guilty of the same things too? I'm not saying what we did was ok it just seems that people like you who go down this road aren't really looking for an apology and aren't really genuine about their morality either. You just want to find some kind of an excuse to hate America. smh....
@@drpibisback7680 Again, Emma Lazarus's poem, "The New Colossus", was installed in 1903, a decade and a half after her death. *This poem had absolutely nothing to do with America vying to except more and more immigrants into this country* but has everything to do with Lazarus becoming interested in her Jewish ancestry as she heard about the horrific Russian programs of 1881.
It was progressive, social-justice-oriented coalitions and their activist members who pushed to change the Statue's original meaning and symbol, ie as a symbol of the friendship between France and America, particularly as allies in the American Revolution and celebrating over a 100 years of American independence; it was also seen as an affirmation of republican ideals and a celebration of the end of slavery. The explicit connection to immigrants, in the minds of the general public, came only later-in large part thanks to Lazarus's words that Democratic, leftwing, SJW, liberals pushed for.
Anything else that was taught to you is historically inaccurate and completely made up by pro-open-borders advocacy groups. (aka leftwing, SJW, liberals)
@@_BenJaminCroft_ This would be a salient criticism if you, A: Knew Emma Lazarus on a personal level, well enough to assess her intentions, or B: Had the capacity to understand that a symbol, such as the poem, takes its meaning not from the intent of its creator, but from inspiration its observers take from it. The swastika is intended to be a symbol of peace, and in many cultures, is emblematic of the sun. And yet, that's not a particularly relevant definition for western democracies.
Sometimes art derives its meaning from the intent of the art, but more commonly, it derives its meaning from the movements it inspires. The statue of liberty, and The New Colossus, have become emblematic of the notion that America has the strength to offer freedom, and the American dream to all who have the strength to land upon her shores. While the poem may not have that meaning for you, and while it may or may not have been Emma Lazarus intent to have her poem interpreted that way; that is entirely and completely the interpretation of those who committed the poem to the statue of liberty.
I genuinely cannot comprehend how you could possibly sit in an audience and laugh about people fleeing for their lives. It breaks my heart.
Open up your home to shelter them. Use your savings to feed them. Use your time to educate them.
Thats what Melania once thought until she spread it🤔
@@dracon501 taxes help with that if you could spare some...
Seriously I can’t comprehend it. No compassion or empathy whatsoever
@@DJ.B930 I for one dont like both sides on this issue. There is a root problem to be fixed. As callous as it sounds (and I travel to Mexico and Central America often) the violence in the poorest sections has not gone down. The Venezuelan diaspora has been the largest exodus of people in the Western Hemisphere.
Empathy is one thing. I've been down there and my heart bleeds for these people. But almost 80% of them can make a case for asylum based on extortion alone. Ridiculing these people doesnt help. Money whipping the issue doesnt fix the root cause.
I dont know what the solution or the answer is to this. Corruption and violence is so bad in some of these places, are we to take everyone in? Do we hold these countries accountable for providing safety for their own citizens? What is the logical response?
In the mean time. I continue to go down there and volunteer. Every trip it's new faces. Every trip are new people with the same stories.
3:55
"If you asked the cops for help and they responded by throwing you in detetion, you'd be absolutely furious! You'd probably also be black, but let's try and take this one systemic social crisis at a time."
Wow, this one hit me hard. Where do you even start? And the worst thing is that many don't even want to start, let alone acknowledge there are any problems or even crises...
That doesn’t happen. Unfortunately, however, we do have a problem with people not cooperating with law enforcement. And they ought to learn how to behave.
@@whiskeysprings do you honestly believe that because I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. There have been so many cases where untrained or simply uncaring police officers arrive at a scene of a 911 call and end up escalating the situation without understanding what the call was about. I know of one case where black grandmother called the cops on her grandson that was trying to kill himself and the cop arrived and shit him dead even after the grandmother was eventually able to calm the boy down. It’s no wonder why many in the minority communities feel like police officer should not be called because there is a good chance they would make the situation worse
@@Wisegirl6521 ate the onion
@@whiskeysprings found the racist
@@whiskeysprings This 100% does happen. It's unfortunate that you don't understand the plight that people different from you face in this country.
This is heart breaking.... I still can’t get over people who say: oh but look, we’ve already had 4 years of him and nothing catastrophic happened! -maybe not for you in a white bubble, but for so many people, it has been deadly.
@@Balletified exactly! I mean yeah he was bad with this, but he wasn’t actively trying to make it worse...
Honestly both Biden and Trump suck and we really need some new comers that actually care about the American People.
A clever post once said Conservatives think of people as abstract concepts, and tend to hold principles as more important than people.
If something bad happens to a person, they probably deserved it because the principles that caused their suffering were right.
That *does end* when they personally know someone, though. Other people are in the abstract, not people they know.
Liberals tend to think of all people as people, not abstract concepts of people.
@@TragoudistrosMPH growing up I never thought I’d be naive to expect empathy from people with in power...
@@Balletified but Obama
But China
But Iran
The list Goes on
Allways excuses, never a solution
This is completely heart wrenching, I have no words for the horrors this administration has caused asylum seekers.
Time for my weekly dose of existential crisis.
What's worse? John Oliver talking about existential crises, or the fact that there's an existential crisis for John Oliver to talk about?
@@elbeetlebeasto I'll go with the second one.
This is how to fix it (whatever it is): catalog.archives.gov/id/1682
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@@Marijuanifornia that is the most pleasing thing I have ever heard 👂
@@elbeetlebeasto The worst part? That'd be John Oliver manufacturing a crisis and indoctrinating his viewers into believing that we should open up our borders to let the crime waves get in, infiltration begin, and culture shifts take its course.
I'm early to the latest installment of "our world is dying just as fast as my brain cells" whoopee
I feel that. 😂
Oof 🤣
Sure u had brains to begin with?
i couldn’t relate to a comment more in my entire life😭😂
Yeah, you should really avoid those Trump Rallies. I mean, it's not like you can really spare the few brain cells you have left.
Tonight on “what horrific thing is my country guilty of this week?”
These tricks are globally used else were ...so many countries copy each others way of torture it seems they all one thing"Alien society"
Since I'm Canadian, it would be Tonight on "What horrible thing my country's only neighbour is guilty of this week".
@@matthewmuir8884"... guilty of TWO weeks ago lol, since we have to wait to watch them
@@littlebunnyfoufou1 That is true.
America is terrifying
Don't let Berta in. She looks like she's been fighting in the UFC. Look at her face tattoos, we can't trust her 🙄
Now I know this is probably on the very cruel side of r/whoosh but in case this is actually serious:
Are you FUCKING SERIOUS?