{"id":27893,"date":"2025-06-20T16:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=27893"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:02:17","slug":"arnold-schwarzenegger-says-immigrants-must-behave-like-a-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/06\/arnold-schwarzenegger-says-immigrants-must-behave-like-a-guest","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Schwarzenegger Says Immigrants Must \u201cbehave like a guest\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27896\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2025\/06\/Arnold-Schwarzenegger_credit-The-View-YouTube.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27896\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2025\/06\/Arnold-Schwarzenegger_credit-The-View-YouTube.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The View \/ YouTube.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Arnold Schwarzenegger recently appeared on an episode of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/\">The View<\/a>,\u201d where he surprised the hosts with his opinions on immigration. The action movie star and immigrant himself was promoting the second seasons of his Netflix show \u201cFUBAR,\u201d when host Joy Behar asked about his reaction to ICE\u2019s presence in Los Angeles. \u201cI just think the world of the great kind of history that we have with immigrants in America,\u201d responded Schwarzenegger, who became a US citizen in 1983 after immigrating to the US in 1968 from Austria to pursue a career in bodybuilding.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration, however, comes with responsibilities according to Schwarzenegger. \u201cYou&#8217;ve got to do things legal, and those people that are doing illegal things in America, and they\u2019re the foreigners, they are not smart, because, when you come to America, you\u2019re a guest, and you have to behave like a guest, like when I go to someone\u2019s house, and I\u2019m a guest, then I will do everything I can, keep things clean and to make my bed and to do everything that is the right thing to do rather than committing a crime, or being abusive or something like that, so that doesn\u2019t really work in this country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts pushed back on Schwarzenegger, with Behar asking, \u201cAs an immigrant yourself, did you have a visceral reaction to what they\u2019re doing, what ICE is doing, when you see the videos of it?\u201d Hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin also chimed in, offering statistics about the lower crime rate statistics amongst immigrants. \u201cArnold, don\u2019t forget 90 percent of the people who come here are trying to do the right thing,\u201d said Goldberg, while Hostin said immigrants are \u201cless likely to commit crimes in this country than actually American-born citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite having been the Republican governor of California from 2003 to 2011, Schwarzenegger has been far from a MAGA supporter and has often been critical of Donald Trump. He has often spouted, however, his love and appreciation of America. \u201cMy bodybuilding career, if it\u2019s my acting career, becoming governor, the beautiful family that I\u2019ve created, all of this is because of America,\u201d he told the hosts. He also said it was the \u201cresponsibility\u201d of immigrants to give back. \u201cYou have a responsibility as an immigrant to give back to America and to pay back to America and go and do something for your community for no money whatsoever. Give something back to after-school programs, Special Olympics, or whatever it is, make this a better place,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The problems caused by immigration policies, he said, have been a result of both Democrats and Republicans. \u201cAll of this is happening because we don&#8217;t have immigration reform,&#8221; he said. \u201cDemocrats and Republicans have to come together and solve this issue if they really want to be public servants. If they want to be party servants, and be party hacks, and be tied to their ideology, then it won&#8217;t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold Schwarzenegger recently appeared on an episode of \u201cThe View,\u201d where he surprised the hosts with his opinions on immigration. The action movie star and immigrant himself was promoting the second seasons of his Netflix show \u201cFUBAR,\u201d when host Joy Behar asked about his reaction to ICE\u2019s presence in Los Angeles. \u201cI just think the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":516,"featured_media":27896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Arnold Schwarzenegger Says Immigrants Must \u201cbehave like a guest\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Arnold Schwarzenegger defends legal immigration on &quot;The View&quot;, saying immigrants must \u201cact like guests\u201d and give 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