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Topics: Joe Rogan, Donald Trump
Nasir Jabbar
Joe Rogan has called out the Donald Trump administration's immigration policy, describing the way it looks as 'horrific'.
Rogan endorsed Trump in the 2024 US presidential election, having had him on his podcast before his political victory.
But the UFC commentator turned on the US president in the latest episode of his podcast as he took exception to the Trump administration's anti-immigration crackdown.
He was joined by comedian Duncan Trussell, who hit out at the administration’s current approach, with a staggering amount of arrests taking place since Trump took office.
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Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have arrested more than 3,000 people in New Jersey, with the the Department of Homeland Security setting a goal of deporting 1 million immigrants annually.
On the policy, Trussell said: "There must be a way to do this that doesn’t involve ripping parents out of their communities, away from their children, that doesn’t involve like actually removing people who’ve been contributing to American society, sending people to other countries when they can’t even speak the language."
Rogan agreed with his podcast guest and told him that he never envisioned the 'horrific' scenes currently unfolding on American streets when Trump initially announced his immigration policy during the election.
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"No one with a heart is going to go along with that. And I did not ever anticipate seeing that on TV on a regular basic," he began.
"I really thought they were just going to go after the criminals. I really thought there was enough gang members and enough people, MS-13 members and whatever they were looking for, that they would just go after those guys."
Rogan went onto explain the problem of the anti-immigration policy, claiming no 'reasonable people' would agree with it.
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“Borders are closed, and we’re going to find out who out of the people that are illegal that have committed felonies, and if you’ve committed X amount of felonies, you have to leave the country," he added.
"But if you’ve been here for 25 years, you have a family, your kids go to school here, you speak the language, you’re just illegal, but you’re a contributing member to the community that up until now has been protected. [It’s] crazy to ask lower-income and middle-income people who are getting by, and then all of a sudden you’re about to ship them to a country where they’ve never been, they haven’t been since they were 4.
“You’re going to you’re going to pull up their family and they’ve been in the community... like that shows no heart, and that’s the problem. Like you’re not going to get any reasonable people to want to go along with that. Any kind person would look at that and go; 'This can’t be the only way to do this'."