Zero Tolerance: Jonathan Blitzer Interview | FRONTLINE

Jonathan Blitzer is an immigration reporter for The New Yorker. His reporting and writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal. Blitzer received the 2018 Immigration Journalism Prize from the French-American Foundation.

Blitzer's candid, full interview was conducted with FRONTLINE during the making of the October 2019 documentary “Zero Tolerance.”

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[lesleyghostdragon]

Frontline's series of excellent interviews are so raw, informative, addictive. Well done👏👏👏
Thank you PBS for the invaluable work you do🙏🙏🙏

[nolimit]

General theme of Comments section:
If any portion of the interview isn't favorable to Trump it is biased or fake news.
Meanwhile the Steve bannon interview was great

[existentialvoid]

Fantastic reporting, shame this thread is full of trolls.

[josephhornbuckle]

I’m only here bc it’s 1 hour 11 minutes and 11 seconds, I couldn’t resist such perfection

[CoastalJames]

These Zero Tolerance interviews have been outstanding in my opinion...and then there is this one. The other interviews were capturing real, transparent conversations with people who are obviously expert in the events and circumstances which developed to create the current state of border issues. This interview however captures a spewing conflation of Blitzer's own limited opinion which appears to be based in headline-speak. Absolute rubbish.

[stevekutra]

It's not what is driving illegals out of their countries but the draw of all America offers.

[mikeearls]

To anyone who cares....I have really been enjoying these interviews. I lean left but I am learning some stuff from the more right side interviewers. Any Right people out there enjoying some of the more liberal interviews? What I have mostly seen is pretty strong judgement from the Right people to the more liberal interviews. thoughts appreciated.

[ac]

Frontline, interview the silent majority. This series is one layer removed. It would be useful to see who had it right in the political arena.

[juliodyarzagaray]

What possible benefits could there be to settling Syrian refugees in the U.S.?

[jeffbohn]

These people see the world completely different.. Like the direct opposite

[urdude]

He does not come across as neutral or objective, so who would the sources of his information be? Fellow travelers.

[PulverizerA]

This guy is described in the video as an Immigration Reporter for the New Yorker. Wonder which way his stories were slanted?
@ 54:50 he says "and obviously Family Separation is unlike anything we've ever seen, in terms of just the absolute human horror of it..."
Um….Yeah.... Whatever you say there, Johnny boi...

[ELJason]

Where is the Stephen Miller interview????

[cward]

BENEFITS TO BRINGING yeah right.... like to see THAT balance sheet... what a crock

[kevincollins]

Sessions hit man for far right wings side.

[Wawi]

I was enjoying the Frontline "Zero Tolerance" series, until this slanted hit piece. Just imagine calling the people working with Obama, "those guys" or as Jonathan wardled, "the cabal" and the "Far Right". All terms used in the pejorative, which turned this conversation into little more than a brushstroke of yellow. Really, is this how objective journalism manifests itself on the fashionable Left?

[kevinbrown]

Jonathan mind will be blown when he sees the 2020 election results

[eddiebaker]

I just clicked on this to see who this guy is and if I wanted to hear from him. No.
Now I'm gonging him.

[blue_diamond_gem]

These interviews have been obsessed with Steven Miller. It’s funny that since this video, numbers have drastically slowed down.

[Altmechanic]

This \<!\<€ will never say the same about Israel’s immigration. He is not a journalist he is clearly an activist \<!\<€