Richard Gere Clashes with Italy's Interior Minister Over Migrants

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Richard Gere criticized Italy’s anti-migrant policy after he delivered supplies to migrants who are stranded on a boat in the Mediterranean. The country’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini then had some choice words for the actor.

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00:00We're going to have to demonize it, human beings.

00:03This has to stop, everywhere on this planet, now.

00:08And it will stop if we say stop.

00:21We're also a president who's putting an enormous amount of energy into demonizing people.

00:30People are, again, running from the fire.

00:32We have our problems with refugees coming from Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico.

00:40It's very similar to what you're going through here.

00:54These people don't want to go back.

00:56Going backwards is not possible.

00:58Where they came from was such a place of pain and inhumanity.

01:07They told me, when they got on these boats, they didn't know where they were going to go.

01:13They didn't care, as long as they were leaving Libya, leaving the pain.

01:28I have signed two bans on entry into Italian waters to two foreign NGOs loaded with hundreds of immigrants.

01:59They went to Spain, they went to Norway.

02:01They don't want to go back to Italy, because we're not the right place in Europe.

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