Jorge Gilberto Ramos Ávalos (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxoɾxe ˈramos]; born March 16, 1958) is a Mexican-American journalist and author.

[8] Ramos has won ten Emmy Awards and the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for excellence in journalism.

[citation needed] Ramos worked for Grupo Televisa's flagship XEW-TV in Mexico City for the network's local version of 60 Minutes.

[14] In 1983, he left Mexico on a student visa for Los Angeles, where he planned to enroll in the UCLA Extension's journalism classes.

In 1984, he was hired by KMEX-TV, an affiliate of what was then the Spanish International Network (SIN) in Los Angeles, which operated on a shoestring budget in a run-down facility on Melrose Avenue.

[citation needed] Since 1987, Ramos has been the anchorman for Noticiero Univision, a nightly Spanish language newscast, alongside colleague María Elena Salinas.

He also hosts Al Punto, a Spanish-language Sunday public affairs program aired weekly on Univision, and America with Jorge Ramos, an English language news magazine on Fusion TV.

[9] During the United States's War in Afghanistan, Ramos traveled there on his own while on vacation because his network refused to send him.

[9] As of 2014, KMEX-DT his Univision 34 news shows regularly beat their English language competition among young viewers.

[18] Ramos also writes a bilingual newspaper column that is published internationally, and appears regularly as a pundit on English-language cable networks, like CNN and MSNBC.

[17] In 2002, he founded Despierta Leyendo (Wake Up Reading), the first book club in the history of Spanish-language television.

When Univision held its own forums with candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, Ramos challenged both of them on their immigration policies, specifically Romney's "self-deportation" policy, which Ramos considered an insult to Latinos, and Obama's deportation of more than 1.4 million people, and his reneging on his promise to address immigration during his first term.

When he sent Trump a handwritten request in June, Trump, who had filed a lawsuit against Univision over its decision to drop the Miss Universe pageant following the candidate's comments about Mexican immigrants, posted Ramos's letter on Instagram, which exposed Ramos's cell phone number.

Due to this knowledge, Ramos refused to sit down and persistently continued questioning Trump about his immigration policies when rebuffed.

[25] Ramos insisted on his rights as a reporter and United States citizen to ask a question, prompting Trump's Head of Security Keith Schiller to push him backwards out of the conference room.

[29] Election exit polls showed Trump getting 29% of the Hispanic vote, a 13% increase over Ramos's projection.

[50] Jorge Ramos has won eleven Emmy Awards and the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for excellence in journalism.