PEW RESEARCH ANALYZED THE NET NUMBER OF MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS
COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES ILLEGALLY, AND WHAT THEY FOUND
WAS THAT THERE IS ACTUALLY NOT A HUGE ISSUE WITH MEXICAN
IMMIGRATION RIGHT NOW. LET ME GIVE YOU THE NUMBERS --
KEEP IN MIND THAT THE POLICY IDEA THAT KIND OF CATAPULTED
DONALD TRUMP INTO FIRST PLACE FOR THE REPUBLICAN TICKET WAS
THIS WHOLE NOTION THAT THERE IS A HUGE PROBLEM WITH MEXICAN
CRIMINALS COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES SO WE NEED TO BUILD A BIG
WALL AND GET MEXICO TO PAY FOR IT. IT TURNS OUT THAT MEXICAN
IMMIGRATION IS THE LEAST OF OUR CONCERNS RIGHT NOW, OR SHOULD BE
THE LEAST OF OUR WORRIES. ALSO HIS POLICY IDEAS WERE STUPID.
THERE ARE TWO THINGS UP LATER YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT. NUMBER
ONE, DESPITE WHAT REPUBLICANS TELL YOU, OBAMA HAS BEEN VERY,
VERY AGGRESSIVE IN POLICING UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS. HE
SENDS THEM BACK, THERE HAS BEEN TOUGHER BORDER SECURITY, SO THAT
HAS DEFINITELY PLAYED A ROLE. ANOTHER THING THAT HAS PLAYED A
ROLE IS OUR ECONOMY. THE ECONOMY IS SO DISASTROUS FOR THE WORKING
CLASS IN THE UNITED STATES THAT MEXICANS ARE LIKE, I DON'T KNOW,
LET'S JUST GO BACK. THEIR JOBS THERE.
THAT IS WHERE I THINK TRUMP KIND OF HAS A POINT. HE PITCHES
HIMSELF AS A PERSON WHO CAN GET RID OF ALL THE MEXICANS LIVING
HERE ILLEGALLY. IF WE WERE TO BAXLEY PUT HIM OR ANOTHER ONE OF
THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES INTO OFFICE AND THEY WERE TO PASS ONE
OF THEIR DISASTROUS TAX PLANS THAT COSTS A SOMETHING LIKE $11
TRILLION OVER 10 YEARS, AND PUT INTO PLAY ECONOMIC POLICIES LIKE
GEORGE W. BUSH DID THAT END UP EVENTUALLY TANKING ECONOMY,
INTEGRATORS, THEN THEY WILL LEAVE. HE WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN.
NOT WITH THE WALL NECESSARILY, BUT WITH WALL STREET HE CAN
MAKE IT HAPPEN.
WITH HOW CRAPPY OUR ECONOMY IS IT WILL HAPPEN EVENTUALLY.
THAT'S THE THING, NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT THE ROOT CAUSES OF
IMMIGRATION. I HAVE TO SAY THAT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT, LIKE, IN
SEARCH OF A BETTER LIFE -- SOMETIMES, YES, THAT MEANS WORK.
AND SOMETIMES MEAN THAT MEANS ESCAPING A CARTEL THAT WANTS TO
KILL YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY. LET'S NOT FORGET THAT A BETTER
LIFE IS ALSO, LIKE, SURVIVING. BUT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT HOW
NAFTA, PASSED UNDER A DEMOCRAT, CLINTON, THE LOSS OF JOBS HAS
BEEN INSANE IN THE U.S. AND RUINED THE MEXICAN ECONOMY,
OPENED THE FLOODGATES TO CHEAP CORN BEING IMPORTED -- LIKE,
MEXICO IMPORTS CORN NOW. WHAT? AND IT RUINED THEIR ECONOMY,
IT'S WHY THEY CAME HERE TO BEGIN WITH. THINGS LIKE THE DROUGHT,
MIGRANT FARMWORKERS, THERE IS NO MORE WATER, NO MORE TOMATOES TO
PICK. NO MORE CROPS.
THERE IS LESS INDUSTRY, LESS CONSTRUCTION, SO IT DOES
MAKE SENSE.
IT DOES.
YOU ARE SAYING THAT HAVING A NET IMMIGRATION WITH MEXICO,
DONALD TRUMP WHEN HE BUILDS THAT WALL, THERE BETTER BE A
DOOR ON IT THAT SWINGS OUT?
THE OTHER WAY? BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL GOING THAT WAY.
THEORETICALLY IF THE WALL HAD EXISTED, AND IF WALLS COULD
ACTUALLY KEEP UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS OUT, WHICH IS ALSO
UNTRUE, THEN WE WOULD'VE RESULTED WITH HAVING MORE
MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS? ABOUT THE SIZE OF MY CITY OF BIRTH,
ACTUALLY. GREAT POLICY.
LET ME EXPLAIN HOW THIS WORKS. YOU HAVE A RIGGED ECONOMY, THEY
SAY WE LIKE FREE MARKETS IN AMERICA, LIKE WE SAID BEFORE,
THE RICH PEOPLE LIKE DONALD TRUMP, EXXON, AND COMCAST, THEY
WILL BUY LEGISLATORS TO RIG THE TAX CODE, THE ECONOMIC CODE, TO
RIG EVERYTHING IN THEIR FAVOR. THAT IS WHY WE HAVE A BOOMING
ECONOMY AND WORKERS AREN'T EXPERIENCING THE BENEFITS OF
INCREASED PRODUCTION OR THE BOOMING ECONOMY. WE ARE POORER
THAN EVER,, THAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING SINCE 1980.
CONFIDENTLY. SO AMERICAN WORKERS FEEL STRESSED. HOW COME I'M
WORKING HARDER THAN EVER BUT I CAN'T BUY A HOUSE, MY KIDS CAN'T
AFFORD TO A COLLEGE OF US ARE GOING TO DEBT -- MEMBER THAT
MOVIE, UP IN THE AIR, THERE WAS A CARTOON IN THESE DOGS WOULD
ALWAYS GET DISTRACTED BY A SQUIRREL. THEY WERE DOING
SOMETHING IMPORTANT AND ñ- SQUIRREL. THAT IS WHAT DONALD
TRUMP IS DOING WITH MEXICANS. YOU'RE FEELING BAD, PEOPLE ARE
GETTING SCREWED OVER BY CORPORATIONS -- MEXICANS!
WE WENT TO MEXICO AND TOOK A LIFE-SIZE CUTOUT OF DONALD TRUMP
AND SET IT UP IN A UNIVERSITY, THE NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS
UNIVERSITY, I THINK THE ARTS AND SCIENCES DEPARTMENT. AND WE HAD
MEXICANS, THERE AND TALK TO DONALD TRUMP. SOME OF THEM ARE
LIKE, YOU ARE A RACIST, A BIGOT, YOU HAVE NO IDEAS, AND OTHERS
WERE JUST LIKE, I WANT TO TALK TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, HELLO.
PLEASE DO NOT VOTE FOR THIS GUY. YOU GUYS ARE SMARTER. I HAVE
FAMILY THERE, FRIENDS THERE. IT'S NOT LOST ON THE WORLD THAT
TRUMP IS A REALITY --
IT IS LOST ON MARK HALPERIN AND MORE OF THE REPORTERS
IN AMERICA, WHO WANT TO SIT ON HIS LAP LIKE HE IS SANTA
CLAUS WHEN THEY TAKE A RIDE ON HIS JET.
IN
SOME WAYS, DONALD TRUMP IS ONE OF THE DUMBEST MEN IN AMERICA.
HE IS SHAMELESS.
IN OTHER WAYS HE IS ACTUALLY PRETTY STRATEGIC AND SMART, AND
HE UNDERSTANDS THAT RIGHT NOW THE THING THAT REALLY RILES
PEOPLE UP IS FINDING THE SCAPEGOAT. FINDING SOMEONE TO
BLAME FOR YOUR PROBLEMS. AND UNFORTUNATELY IT IS VERY RARELY
THE CORPORATIONS, THE PEOPLE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THEM, THAT
PEOPLE USE AS A SCAPEGOAT. IT IS A MOST ALWAYS PEOPLE IN A WORSE
ECONOMIC SITUATION THAN THEM THAT THEY USE AS A SCAPEGOAT.
THESE PEOPLE ARE FLEEING THEIR COUNTRIES -- WILL NOT NOW, THEY
ARE GOING BACK, BUT THEY WOULD FLEE THEIR COUNTRY, COME TO THE
U.S., BECAUSE THEY JUST WANTED A BETTER LIFE. THEY DID NOT COME
HERE BECAUSE THEY WERE CRIMINALS AND WANTED TO CAUSE TROUBLE.
ALSO YOU MENTIONED NAFTA, ANOTHER THING IS OUR DRUG
POLICIES IN THE U.S. AND HOW MUCH THEY IMPACT WHAT IS
HAPPENING IN MEXICO NOW. PART OF THE REASON WHY MEXICO CONTINUES
TO HAVE PROHIBITION ON DRUGS LIKE MARIJUANA IS BECAUSE WE
GIVE MEXICO FOREIGN AID ON THE CONDITION THAT THEY PLAY BY OUR
RULES, AND THAT INCLUDES OUR DRUG LAWS. WE HOLD THEM TO THIS
RIDICULOUS STANDARD THAT IS FUELING VIOLENCE AND DEATH AND
DESTRUCTION IN THEIR COUNTRY, THEN WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO FLEE
THAT VIOLENCE AND COME TO THE UNITED STATES AS IMMIGRANTS,
WE DEMONIZE THEM AND MAKE THEM OUT TO BE CRIMINALS THEMSELVES.
THEY ARE NOT.
THIS IS A TRIED AND TRUE TACTIC OF THE SCAPEGOAT, WHETHER
IT BE RACE-BASED -- AND GOING BACK TO OUR EARLIER SEGMENT
AROUND SOCIALISM, I MEAN, RACE HAS BEEN USED TO DIVIDE
WORKERS THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY.
SINCE THE BEGINNING OF AMERICA.
IT IS AN EASY TACTIC. DON'T BRING THEM INTO THE FOLD,
LEGALIZE THEM -ó JUST PUT PEOPLE AGAINST ONE ANOTHER. AND
THE DUDES AT THE TOP ALWAYS WIN.
AT THE BEGINNINGS OF AMERICA, YOU HAD BETWEEN POOR WHITE
WORKERS, SLAVES, AND NATIVE AMERICANS, GROUPS THAT COULD
HAVE BEEN UNIONS, AND YOU CAN LOOK AT THE ANALYSIS OF WHAT
DIFFERENT STATES DID TO BREAK THAT UP, TO PIT WORK AND IN
MANY CASES DUMB WHITE WORKERS AGAINST NATIVE AMERICANS AND
SLAVES.
THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE BEFORE AMERICA WAS A COUNTRY.
I REMEMBER WORKING IN A RESTAURANT ONCE AND MY MEXICAN
FRIENDS THERE WOULD BE LIKE, IN THIS COUNTRY, YOU CAN GET THE
BEST CLOTHING, YOU CAN GET THE COOLEST CAR, THE COOLEST WATCH,
BUT I CAN'T RUN A BUSINESS. AND EVEN IF YOU HAVE CITIZENSHIP,
LIKE, I CAN'T ESTABLISH ANYTHING FOR MY FAMILY. I CAN'T OWN A
HOUSE, I CAN'T START A BUSINESS. I HAD A HARDWARE STORE BACK IN
MEXICO. AND I THINK YOU CAN SAY THAT IS NOT JUST IMMIGRANTS, BUT
FOLKS WHO HAVE BEEN HERE FOR GENERATIONS. WE CAN BUY THE
NICEST STUFF, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THINGS LIKE PUTTING DOWN REAL
ROOTS THAT REALLY MATTER? HARD TO COME BY.
PREACH.