Geraldo Rivera And Bill O Reilly's Argument On Immigration

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Geraldo Rivera and Bill O’Reilly have a heated argument over immigration in this video clip when Bill O’Reilly brings up an incident when an illegal immigrant was involved in a drunk driving crash that killed another motorist in Virginia Beach. Geraldo Rivera asserts the only reason the incident is being so closely in the media is because the driver was an illegal alien and if it was a “Bubba” or “Bob” Americans would not have heard about the incident. O’Reilly then cites the illegal alien driver had been arrested two previous times and should have been deported the first time he had contact with the police and this drunk driving fatality would never have occurred. Rivera argues that this incident has nothing to do with illegal immigration and what nationality you are has nothing to do with the fact you are driving while intoxicated. Both Rivera and O’Reilly begin getting angrier and talking over one another not allowing the other to respond to one another’s accusations.

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Rivera’s argument also passes the test of relevance because the truth of his claim that drunk driving fatalities have nothing to do with the drunk driver’s nationality relate to the truth of his reason that drunk driving fatalities occur because people, not just illegal immigrants, drive drunk.
The test of non-circularity that if the reason and the claim say the same thing, the argument is not solid. Rivera’s argument that drunk driving fatalities have nothing to do with the driver’s nationality is not the basis for believing in the truth of his reason that drunk driving fatalities are due to “any” nationality driving while

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