Why Fusion TV Anchor Jorge Ramos Swam Across the Tex-Mex Rio Grande Lloyd Grove - The Daily Beast
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Watch Jorge Ramos Swim Across the Rio Grande (Fusion)

“This is a crisis that won’t go away,” Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos told The Daily Beast, explaining why he took the plunge to bring attention to the issue of immigration reform and the thousands of unaccompanied Central American children who’ve been making their away across the United States border with Mexico, often at night in the turbid river, where 33 people have drowned since October.

Wearing blue-jeans and a T-shirt, and accompanied by a cameraman and, for safety’s sake, a team of U.S. Border Patrol agents on two boats who facilitated the stunt, the 56-year-old, Mexico City-born Ramos made his watery, 200-yard crossing this summer.

...He noted that many of the desperate swimmers - children, fleeing from violence, crime and deprivation in their countries of origin - carry their belongings in black plastic bags, gripped between their teeth.  “It’s incredibly dangerous, and it was for me, during the day,” he said. “Imagine what it is like at night for these children.”

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