A senior member of the Congressional Hispanic Conference is warning NBC Universal that the First Amendment may not protect Saturday Night Live to invite Donald Trump on as a host.
“I believe in free speech and the First Amendment, you’re correct from that standpoint, except for you’re not allowed to go into an auditorium and yell, ‘Fire, fire, fire!’,” Representative Loretta Sanchez (D., Calif) told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin. “And in the same way, I believe it’s up to SNL to understand that when they put Donald Trump in front of people and he says these type of derogatory comments, that has a direct relationship to what is happening out in everyday lives of Latinos.”
“For example, back in June, when in Boston a Hispanic male was beat up almost to the point of death, and the person who beat him up said to the police, ‘Well, Donald Trump is right, these illegal aliens are just not supposed to be here,’” Sanchez said.
“We are upset that Mr. Trump is hosting this, rather than just being a skit; it is enabling him, after he has said these derogatory comments,” she continued. “And NBC Universal said to us early on, we’re not going to stand for this. So we are simply pushing back at SNL and saying, ‘Uh-uh, this is not correct and you’re endangering Latinos when you do this type of a thing.’”