NEW YORK (AP) - NBC's Tom Brokaw says he feels terrible that he offended
some Hispanics with his comments on "Meet the Press" Sunday that Hispanics
should work harder at assimilation.
The former "NBC Nightly News" anchor tweeted in response to a social media
backlash to the comments earlier in the day.
Brokaw said during a discussion about the proposed border wall that a lot
of Republicans fear that Hispanics will all be Democrats. He also said that
he hears people say, when he pushes them harder, that "I don't know whether
I want brown grandbabies."
Journalist Julio Ricardo Varela, founder of the Latino Rebels web site,
said on Twitter that Brokaw's comments were factually incorrect and
xenophobic.

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