Are Borders Racist? | Ami on the Loose — Transcript

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1. 0:01okay do you think borders are racist yes
2. 0:05why do you think it is uh I don't really
3. 0:08there's no need to really expand on that
4. 0:10just kind of it's self-explanatory yeah
5. 0:16I'm Ami Horowitz I'm here to ask people
6. 0:18on the left are borders racist let's go
7. 0:22check it out
8. 0:24[Music]
9. 0:31do you think having borders is racist
10. 0:35yeah
11. 0:36that's first sir yeah I think so I think
12. 0:38the border is racist
13. 0:44yeah I think
14. 0:49I think I agree yes I'm gonna keep
15. 0:52walking absolutely yes absolutely no
16. 0:55question about it no yes
17. 0:59uh I don't really there's no need to
18. 1:01really expand on that just kind of it's
19. 1:03self-explanatory yeah do you think that
20. 1:05of having a border is an expression of
21. 1:08racism
22. 1:09yeah
23. 1:11so they automatically wasted they think
24. 1:13that we're better than them because why
25. 1:14because we're on this side and they're
26. 1:15on that side there's three countries out
27. 1:17there anybody should be here it's rooted
28. 1:19in racist ideology yeah we're borders
29. 1:23yeah yeah everybody in this
30. 1:25country is racist whether they say they
31. 1:26are they not they are why are you
32. 1:28keeping your mouth
33. 1:31obviously has something to do with
34. 1:33inspirational motivated do you agree
35. 1:36that this country is fundamentally
36. 1:37racist
37. 1:40like forcing people to go through like
38. 1:42the Sonoran Desert instead of like like
39. 1:46we forced them to go through the desert
40. 1:47because like we basically know that
41. 1:48they're gonna die in the desert
42. 1:50oh that's that's that's what it is your
43. 1:53parents came from no my mom yeah
44. 1:58Yep this country is very racist but you
45. 2:01think we'd be better off as a global
46. 2:03Society if we were Borderlands
47. 2:06yeah I think that'd be cool yeah yeah
48. 2:09absolutely I would probably say so sure
49. 2:12I think that would be a great idea I
50. 2:14mean in an Ideal World I think that
51. 2:15there would be no borders in countries I
52. 2:17think an open border would help a lot
53. 2:19for a bunch of guys who are baked you
54. 2:21guys are very eloquent
55. 2:22do you think people who are trying to
56. 2:24get in this country poor brown people
57. 2:26from Mexico Honduras Central America do
58. 2:29you think that people are trying to get
59. 2:30in this country from the south would say
60. 2:32to us the same thing that you're saying
61. 2:33having a borders racist stopped me from
62. 2:36getting it
63. 2:38we've come to Nuevo Laredo a major
64. 2:41crossing point for migrants to try to
65. 2:44come into the U.S we're here to ask them
66. 2:46what they think about America's borders
67. 2:48this is an area of very high gang
68. 2:51traffic with a specialty in kidnapping
69. 2:52my cameraman sent me a disturbing
70. 2:54message and eventually we were forced to
71. 2:57stop
72. 2:59what the are you doing here
73. 3:05before that happened
74. 3:06is it racist for the United States to
75. 3:09have a border
76. 3:10is it racist for America to have a
77. 3:14border
78. 3:17is to
79. 3:28super is
80. 3:32it important for the U.S to have a
81. 3:34border
82. 3:37foreign
83. 3:57what do you think of Americans who's
84. 3:59saying we don't want any borders