Donald Trump has made his entire campaign be about immigrants, guilting them of the state of the country and promising thousands deportations for migrants, legal or not.
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00:00win of Donald Trump beginning to take shape.
00:03And while thinking about all the promises that he once again made
00:08in order to not only reduce migration into the United States,
00:13but he promised thousands and thousands of deportations.
00:18And of course, there's a lot of Hispanic community
00:20that is fearing like what could happen afterwards.
00:24So we talked about migration throughout this program,
00:30but we haven't gotten into how could this translate
00:35to the real world the day before the election
00:38or not just after the election,
00:42but the day after the new administration,
00:45a possible new administration begins.
00:48How can this promises that we know are sometimes upscaled
00:53in order to be effective and draw in votes
00:57and feed on the fear and the economy
01:03and the economic threatens of the people.
01:07How could this threatens to the Hispanic population
01:10and the population in general be translated?
01:14Could we be facing, for example, big amounts of deportations?
01:20Yeah, the first thing that comes up for me
01:22is that in the eight years of Obama,
01:26yes, we can, si se puede,
01:29with all of his, quote unquote, unifying rhetoric.
01:34Obama actually deported many more immigrants
01:38than were deported in the Bush years or any other years.
01:42So it's important to, that's not to say that Trump is,
01:47Trump is, that his threats are idle.
01:52I think there is a reason to believe
01:53that he represents a significant threat to Latinos,
01:58to immigrants, to Muslims
02:00with all of his hateful rhetoric and actions.
02:04Why invest in building a border wall of apartheid,
02:09of hatred, of xenophobia,
02:11when you could invest that money in jobs and education
02:14in the oppressed countries
02:16so people aren't forced to leave their homeland.
02:18These are not voluntary immigrants.
02:20These are people who are,
02:22their destiny has been usurped from them.
02:25And we were talking about this right-wing trend earlier.
02:29We mentioned Bolsonaro and Millet.
02:34We shouldn't forget Luis Abinader,
02:36the neoliberal lackey president of the Dominican Republic
02:40who has built this Trumpian wall
02:44along the Dominican-Haitian border
02:47and who has been not just talking about
02:50deporting tens of thousands of Haitians,
02:53but actually doing it
02:55without contextualizing the U.S.'s war on Haiti.
02:59Every day more U.S. guns are leaked into Haiti.
03:04Every day the threat of more U.S. intervention into Haiti.
03:10What they've done now is they have paid
03:14$333 million to Kenyan mercenaries.
03:19There's 400 Kenyan police officers
03:21and other Caribbean soldiers that are occupying Haiti right now.
03:25This represents the fourth U.S. invasion,
03:29occupation of Haiti in just the past 100 years.
03:33We don't know exactly Trump and his bark versus his bite.
03:40I remember in that 2016 to 2020 period in the Bronx, New York,
03:46it was not uncommon for there to be WhatsApp groups
03:50where immigrant rights advocates and family members
03:55alerted one another,
03:56ISIS here, ISIS at this subway station,
04:00and ISIS deporting people from this housing project,
04:04and they're invading here.
04:07Remember the whole, the sanctuary cities
04:10and people looking out for one another?
04:12And that's one thing about a Trump victory.
04:14It activates millions of people across the United States
04:18who would otherwise be adormecidos,
04:20would be fast asleep.
04:23I'll give one example to demonstrate my point.
04:26In the Bush years,
04:28when we protested the war on Iraq and the war on Afghanistan,
04:32we could get hundreds of thousands of people
04:34to surround the White House and the Pentagon and Times Square
04:38and in Los Angeles and San Francisco,
04:40how many millions of people came into the streets
04:42in those Bush years?
04:442008, Barack Obama's the president.
04:47It's the same war on Iraq.
04:49It's the same occupation of Afghanistan.
04:51Overnight, our demonstrations go from hundreds of thousands
04:55to hundreds or a thousand here, a thousand there.
04:58Of course, in 2011, you have the dismemberment,
05:02the bombing, the recolonization of Libya.
05:06There were times where we had demonstrations
05:08in defense of Libya.
05:10There were only 12 of us or 14 of us
05:12or 16 of us marching in the streets.
05:14So the liberals, and Arnold August made this point earlier,
05:19the Democratic Party is the graveyard of social movements
05:24because it signals to the liberals
05:26that somehow things are okay
05:28because there's not a fascist in the White House,
05:30but Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
05:32weren't proto-fascists on some level.
05:35Ask the Palestinian people, ask the Russian people,
05:37ask the Chinese people, the Venezuelan people,
05:40and ask people right at home,
05:42how have they benefited from Biden
05:45and Kamala Harris's last four years?
05:49So the social movements across the country
05:51are gonna have to be awake in communication,
05:55but certainly in certain states like Texas or in Arizona,
06:01it very well could mean that immigrant families
06:04suffer a great deal.
06:05We can't forget the separation of parents
06:09and children on the border during the Trump years,
06:13but this also happened in the Biden years,
06:16so we can't be selective and segregate our tiers.
06:19No, and let's recall that the Biden administration
06:22were the ones that planned a joint invasion
06:26or joint takeover of Haiti just a few months ago
06:31and alongside Kenya and alongside other forces.
06:35They were trying to go into force,
06:38into full gear inside Haiti
06:41and not to address the root causes of inequalities,
06:44the root causes of what is happening right now
06:47there in this humanitarian crisis that is going on
06:51and that it takes back,
06:53it dates back to other US administrations
06:57with other installments and other invasions
07:00of the Haitian territory and Haitian people.