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Schwarzenegger Says We Need Reform, but Immigrants Have to Start Showing Respect

&NewLine;<p>Uber action star and former governor of California&comma; Arnold Schwarzenegger&comma; says that immigrants need to act responsibly and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;behave like guests” in the US&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Governator” made those comments during a recent appearance on The View where he stressed the need for immigration reform&comma; but also for migrants to act legally and responsibly while being in the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I just think the world of the great history that we have with immigrants in America&comma; but the key thing also is&comma; at the same time&comma; that we&&num;8217&semi;ve got to do things legal&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period; &&num;8220&semi;That is the most important thing&period; You&&num;8217&semi;ve got to do things legal&comma; and those people that are doing illegal things in America&comma; and they&&num;8217&semi;re the foreigners&comma; they are not smart&comma; because&comma; when you come to America&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;re a guest&comma; and you have to behave like a guest&comma; like when I go to someone&&num;8217&semi;s house&comma; and I&&num;8217&semi;m a guest&comma; then I will do everything I can&comma; keep things clean and to make my bed and to do everything that is the right thing to do rather than committing a crime&comma; or being abusive or something like that&comma; so that doesn&&num;8217&semi;t really work in this country&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Schwarzenegger said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Schwarzenegger was pressed by the hosts on ICE’s presence in Los Angeles and on whether the National Guard would have been deployed if he were governor&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You have a responsibility as an immigrant to give back to America and to pay back to America and go and do something for your community for no money whatsoever&period; Give something back to after-school programs&comma; Special Olympics&comma; or whatever it is&comma; make this a better place&comma;” the former California governor said&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The left-leaning hosts pushed back on Schwarzenegger as Whoopi Goldberg insisted&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;90&percnt; of the people who come here are trying to do the right thing&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes in this country than actual American-born citizens&comma;” co-host Sunny Hostin told Schwarzenegger&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Schwarzenegger also called for immigration reform during the discussion and said both Democrats and Republicans needed to work together to pass it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;All of this is happening because we don’t have immigration reform&comma;” he said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Democrats and Republicans have to come together and solve this issue if they really want to be public servants&period; If they want to be party servants&comma; and be party hacks&comma; and be tied to their ideology&comma; then it won’t happen&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As to the situation in his home state of California&comma; Schwarzenegger has spoken out about the LA riots and said the media was making it out to be a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;war zone&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He recently told late-night host Jimmy Kimmel that he agreed with his take on the current state of LA&comma; in which Kimmel mocked the media for portraying the anti-ICE protests as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;some kind of totalitarian hellscape” and condemned the Trump administration for deporting &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;people who have lived here their whole lives&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Democrats and the Republicans — both of the parties — have no interest in solving this problem &lbrack;comprehensive immigration reform&rsqb; because they use that to raise money&comma;” Schwarzenegger told Kimmel&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;So what they do is they just keep pointing the finger at each other&comma; and then they’re surprised if all of a sudden we are using our middle finger on them&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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