Ronald Vitiello served as deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement between 2017 and 2019.
Vitiello’s candid, full interview was conducted with FRONTLINE during the making of the October 2019 documentary “Zero Tolerance.â€
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This interview was conducted with FRONTLINE during the making of our documentary “Zero Tolerance.†Watch the full film, here: https://youtu.be/eW4kQ4akZ1A
I am Hoping and Praying VITIELLO Will replace incompetent MAYORKA IMMEDIATELY!
I'm willing to bet 10 grand Ronald Vitiello already knows Kamila Sumatra Harris Jones is an accomplice of Joe's DESTRUCTION of the American System!
how are ee gonna get paid?
oh! i know, more than Tan
don't think i didnt ask ya for a reason
THIS IS WHAT REAL NEWS LOOKS LIKE. This is journalism. A breath of fresh air in a sea of feces. Long live PBS.
You guys have not done enough
The walls is not strong enough.
We Americans and democrats and all the nations
Are control by the name of
Rodchild .
Rodchild is control every things.
Like are life.
Control everything in world .
I hear 👂 they have something to do with what is going on in the world 🌎
The POTUS’ policies fell completely in line with the professionals but the final show was edited so badly that the main points of the interviews were left completely out. All that was left was a hit piece.
Ronald is clearly a professional of the highest calibre. How the president could snub him is crazy.
So Trump chanting – Build that wall – and Mexico is going to pay for it! – & – Mexico is sending us their rapists – is Trump bringing to the forefront the issue of border security? I just love how people hear a chant and interpret that as [Immigration reform – with a border security component]. Either they are not bothered by the racist component of the chants or they too think the same? So many people give Trump too much credit. Trump couldn't care less about building a wall or immigration reform. He did his research and someone told him that many people are worried about Mexicans crossing the border and immigrants commiting crimes. And as a great con man, he saw a great long con – and he started marketting this as his policy… but he had no policy – he just had a few chants/slogans. It was Stephen Miller and Jeff Sessions – that had the policies. Trump knew those chants would get people excited and get them to vote for him. And there was nothing deeper than that. During the campaign there was no deep policy on anything… just some chants.
The entire series of interviews gives a different impression of Zero Tolerance and border immigration than what has been portrayed in the media, and the media narratives don't come off too well.
It's a farce. The President pretends that he needs Congress to change the law or to fund the wall (while he could just charge remittances or issue and EO for financing the wall on the military budget). The Congress doesn't give anything (because they're in the hands of the corporations and charities) and the President keeps firing the people in charge of ICE or Border Patrol as if it were their fault that they can't handle an increasing numbers for illegal immigrants.
It could be a comedy if it weren't so tragic.
Nice effort on transparency.
Interviewer: "The administration 'ginned up' the idea of the caravan..right?" Ummm, no, liberal Resister whose mission it is to somehow make Trump and anyone in his administration look bad. The caravan, as Ronald said, was very real. The Democrats knew this, of course, so they refused to even go to visit..called it a "manufactured crisis". Ummm…when 100,000 illegal aliens (that we could catch….not to mention those we couldn't) are storming across our border every month and are well funded by Leftists like George Soros, etc, it's not about the administration "ginning up" anything. The emergency is authentic. Goof.
41:30
The plan – “We assumed and calculated that the families were going to be reunitedâ€
Response to inability to reunite families after judge’s orders – “Nobody understood it. We didn’t expect it to end and have to be reversed. That assumption was never a part of our plan.â€
“Who was surprised?†, “Everyone.â€
Chuck E’ Cheese uses matching stamps
@36:00 this wasn't a public response. This was a manufactured narrative of the open borders lobby
Yea theres literally no legislation for minors or families literally they have no laws to follow u can go read them urself its nutz
The POTUS’ policies fell completely in line with the professionals but the final show was edited so badly that the main points of the interviews were left completely out. All that was left was a hit piece.
@Ronald why so serious?
after watching this, form your own opinion and don't bother with the
final frontline show Zero tolerence it is not objective but some how
presents a spin, that I just can't see in what this interview is saying .
Zero tolerence works and was over due . I am glad i watched this full interview before the broadcasted
episode which spins everything into their narrative, I don't
understand why they didn't include any of this interview not even cklip of this message that Vitiello was saying.
Zero tolerence works and was needed by the Border Officers but PBS didn't want the viewers to be aware of it.
after watching this, form your own opinion and don't bother with the
final frontline show Zero tolerence it is not objective but some how
presents a spin, that I just can't see in what this interview is saying .
Zero tolerence works and was over due . I am glad i watched this full interview before the broadcasted
episode which spins everything into their narrative, I don't
understand why they didn't include any of this interview not even cklip of this message that Vitiello was saying.
Zero tolerence works and was needed by the Border Officers but PBS didn't want the viewers to be aware of it.
Trump is The Evil Snake !
He recites & tells YOU his own narcissistic character in his rallies.
He is an Insecure Corrupt Con Man from Queens who only care about money & himself.
Everything is about money transection to profit himself.
He doesn't care about The American People. Ang-Ray