Latinos for Trump Founder: 'Defend Your Country' from Hispanics

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OP - September 02, 2016, 09:06 PM

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Just before the founder of Latinos for Trump warned in a television interview there would be "taco trucks on every corner" if Mexican immigration to the U.S. goes unchecked, he told other Trump supporters "Hispanics are taking over" and called on the fellow supporters to "defend your country."

Marco Gutierrez, the group's founder, apparently recorded the conversation while driving to his interview with Joy-Ann Reid of MSNBC on Wednesday, during which he made the taco truck comment.

He also warned about the growth of the Hispanic population in the U.S. saying the culture is "colliding and I think the Americans are starting to react to that."

"Let's be honest," he adds. "If you don't do something about it, us as Hispanics, we're going to have the White House full of taco trucks and we are going to be selling paletas (frozen fruit popsicles) on every corner around the White House. And, we are going to have piñatas and atole (a Mexican beverage) ... I know my people guys … You need to defend your country, our country."

He followed in the MSNBC interview with a warning about the spread of the Latino culture.

"My culture is a very dominant culture," he told MSNBC. "And it is imposing, and it is causing problems. If you don't do something about it you are going to have taco trucks on every corner."
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latinos-trump-founder-warns-taco-trucks-every-corner-n641976

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Reply #1 - September 02, 2016, 09:13 PM

Oh that's really going to deliver Hispanic voters to Trump.

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Reply #2 - September 02, 2016, 09:17 PM

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Although easy access to inexpensive Mexican food would be a boon for hungry Americans, what would the inevitable presence of those trucks do to the American economy? How could our country accommodate an explosion of trucks at that scale?

The first question we must answer is how many trucks we're talking about. A corner is dependent on an intersection of street, a place where two roads meet or where one road turns. For the purposes of our thought experiment, we will assume that Gutierrez didn't mean a truck literally on every corner — that would be ridiculous. Instead, let's assume that he meant a truck at every intersection.
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That would give us about 3.2 million intersections in the United States. And it would mean that, per Gutierrez's vision of the future, we'd suddenly see 3.2 million conveniently located taco trucks. How ubiquitous is that? Well, it's one on every corner. But we can also compare it to Starbucks, which seems pretty ubiquitous in a lot of places. In 2012, there were about 11,000 Starbucks locations in the United States.

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So what would it mean to have 3.2 million such establishments on our streets? Well, according to this article at something called "FoodBeast," there are already 3 million food trucks in America, so apparently we wouldn't really notice them. Unless that figure is wrong, as this article effectively argues. For example: "According to TruckInfo there are about 15 million trucks on the road in the U.S. This means 1 in 5 trucks on the road are food trucks." Which seems high.

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But it's where we're headed, apparently, if Trump loses. That's good news for the economy in one way. If you assume that three people work in each truck, that's 9.6 million new jobs created. The labor force in August was 159.4 million, with 144.6 million employed. Adding 9.6 million taco truck workers would help America reach nearly full employment — and that's just the staffing in the trucks. Think about all of the ancillary job creation: mechanics, gas station workers, Mexican food truck management executives. We'd likely need to increase immigration levels just to meet the demand.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/02/the-national-economic-implications-of-a-taco-truck-on-every-corner/

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Reply #3 - September 02, 2016, 09:39 PM

I'm convinced this guy is being sarcastic.
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