“Last Week Tonight” returned from hiatus Sunday to dispel the myth of the “lazy migrant” because as John Oliver tells it, “I’m a lazy migrant!”
“I’m a lazy migrant! I left a country by airplane and the only things I was escaping were fog, public indifference and an almost certain future as the Turtle of Prince Harry’s Entourage,” Oliver said. “The maddening thing is Europe doesn’t even need to do this for good reasons. It can do it for selfish ones because as a continent it is in dire need of new citizens.”
Oliver skewered specific country’s policies toward immigrants, such as Slovakia, which only will give asylum to Christians because “they haven’t got any mosques.”
“You do know you can build those right? Mosques don’t naturally occur in the wild due to erosion or particularly devote beavers,” Oliver said. “Muslims can live anywhere that other humans can live. Muslims are not like dolphins trying to resettle in Scottsdale, Arizona.”
Watch the video, from HBO, below:
devoted or devout? Works either way, I guess.
Burned into the Latino consciousness is the term “La Migra”.
We have got to Anglicize this for Johnny…
Be nice if there were actually a video or a link.