Earl Ofari Hutchinson
00:00:01.160] – Speaker 1
Welcome to another edition of the Hutchinson Report, the weekly Hutchinson Report. I’m your host, Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Mass deportation, President elect Donald Trump, even before President elect Donald Trump said over and over again on the campaign trail, America’s going to have under my watch in the White House the greatest mass deportation in American history, world history, probably, you know, Trump, exaggeration, hyperbole. All right. There’s been fierce debate over that.
[00:00:35.230] – Speaker 1
He’s now president elect. One of the first things he said on the agenda, on his bucket list of things, the mass deportation, he hasn’t specified exactly how. He’s got a tough guy. He’s put in there as the border czar, Tom Holman. So we’ll have to see what will happen, how that will evolve.
[00:00:55.420] – Speaker 1
But Trump had another interesting take. He said that all the illegals that are pouring into the US Supposedly are taking black and Hispanic jobs, whatever that might be. All the experts that have looked at it, economists, political analysts who said, bunk, bunk, bunk, they cite this one. These are jobs that at the low end, most African Americans, native born, Hispanics, native born, I’m going to take anyway. Secondly, good for the economy, farm labor, all the produce, all of that, and also retail and other kinds, restaurants and other kinds of service jobs.
[00:01:35.140] – Speaker 1
These are jobs that are necessary for the economy. And essentially they’re not harming or taking jobs from native born, in this case, Hispanics and African Americans. So the economists and many of the analysts have been unanimous about that. However, a number of African Americans and Hispanics have said no, we do believe Trump’s onto something, that in fact, tens of thousands, maybe millions of illegals in the country are working services, funding for all kind of programs that are impacting low income and the most impoverished among African Americans and Hispanics, that many, in some places, many African Americans and Hispanics, despite what some of the experts say will take some of those jobs in retail and service industries that undocumented workers are filling, not to mention the cost. The fact is there is a cost to be borne, that taxpayers across the board pay for undocumented workers care, medical, education, services, so forth, if they’re in the country.
[00:02:48.850] – Speaker 1
So there’s a pro and a con on that, but it doesn’t really make any difference. Trump has made a political point about mass deportations. Obviously, during the election. It was a major selling point for him, his campaign and his presidency. And from the polls and surveys, it showed it touched a nerve that a majority of Americans, despite across all ethnic and gender and political grounds, do have a problem with porous borders and undocumented workers that in their mind, seem to be getting a free pass.
[00:03:27.480] – Speaker 1
All right. It is an issue. It’s a hypercharged, supercharged, emotional issue. And did touch a nerve. And Trump touched that and managed to essentially sell that to the American people.
[00:03:41.310] – Speaker 1
Now we’re waiting to see if this mass deportation, one, even happens, two, how it could happen. And three, is it true, Donald Trump, as experts have said, not true. But some do believe that illegal immigrants in the numbers that they’re coming in take jobs from native born Hispanics and African Americans. The debate will continue. It will be fierce.
[00:04:07.840] – Speaker 1
It will be prolonged. And one thing’s for sure, there will be no resolution. I’m Earl Ofari Hutchinson. You’ve been watching and listening to another edition of my weekly Hutchinson Report.