Benicio Del Toro Addresses U.S. Election Immigration Debate: “Politics Is A Dirty Game” – Lumière Film Festival

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Sicario and Traffic star Benicio Del Toro has spoken out against the dehumanizing aspect of the debate around immigration in the lead-up to the U.S.

presidential elections. The actor was pressed on the topic during a masterclass on his career at France’s classic film-focused Lumiere Film Festival. “You can’t group people and say they’re all bad people.

For the most part, what I know is that most of the people that are trying to get to America, they’re trying to improve their lives, because there’s problems in their hometowns, or wherever they come from, they’re trying to better their lives,” he said. “That said, I think that borders have to be respected, but when you group people and you put them in a position where they become subhuman, then that’s really scary.

I don’t subscribe to treating anyone like they’re less than human because of the color of their skin, because of their religion, because of their origin or whatever.” Del Toro’s comments come as the debate on how to control U.S.