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Fox News host Tucker Carlson began his show Tuesday by debating with an illegal immigrant on the issues of immigration reform and Mondays violent May Day protests and it went about as well as could be expected.

Speaking withjournalist Jose Antonio Vargas, an illegal immigrant from the Philippines, Carlson wanted to know why the American political left so readily embraces violence.

But instead of answering the question, Vargas immediately pushed back over Carlsons word choice.

I dont know if weve talked to all of those people protesting and asked them if all of them arefrom the left, Vargas said using air quotes. How do you know that? Did you talk to all of those people?

Those shouting left-wing slogans are left-wing, Carlson shot back. Almost all of the political violence in the past five months has been perpetrated by the left in the name of fighting against fascism.

Well first of all, I really take offense to the very simplistic left and right way youre framing this. It suits your viewers and Fox News, but it doesnt suit reality, Vargas replied.

Carlson explained that in the U.S.right now its only a subset of the left that uses violence as a means to obtain and advocate their political goals.

Im merely saying: Where are people who agree with these folks standing up and saying, Youre not allowed to block traffic. You cant break things, you cant set fires? Carlson asked. Its pretty simple.

Vargas, however, didnt answer the question and began to steer the debate toward immigration.

What I can tell you is that for many of us this issue is, not just political, its personal, Vargas said. Were talking about millions of people who are related to undocumented immigrants that you call criminal every day.

I, as a person, am not illegal, he explained.

Carlson explained that when someone says illegal immigrant, theyre not deeming the immigrant as a bad person, just simply stating that the immigrants status is in violation of the law.

He then pressed Vargas over whether or not he believes Americans should have a say in immigration policy, given that people born in the U.S. see their country changing and becoming really chaotic.

Your argument appears to be that they have noright to have a say in who comes here, Carlson said. Youre here illegally, and youre basically saying: I dare you to do something about it.

Carlson went on to statethat he doesnt believe illegal immigrants should have a say in American immigration policy given their legal status.But Vargas again took issue with Carlsons words.

Im not from Mars, he said, noting his disagreementwith Carlsons use ofthe words illegal and alien to describe illegal immigrants.

Toward the end of the interview, Carlson pressed Vargas for nearly two minutes over how many immigrants the U.S. should allow in each year. But Vargas failed to give Carlson a real answer citing a lack of time.

Ill give you eight minutes next time to tell me the number, Carlson said before ending the interview.

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