#1664 All That Gets Wrongly Blamed on Immigrants: Lies about the economy, crime, election integrity, Social Security, and more!
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Air Date 10/22/2024
This is your one-stop reference guide to every issue that is being wrongly blamed on immigrants as the Trump campaign rhetoric turns evermore fascist and xenophobic.
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KEY POINTS
KP 3: The Real Reason Trump Is Demonizing Immigrants - The Lever - Air Date 10-11-24
KP 4: 'Villains nor victims' Why immigration is good for our economy - Velshi - Air Date 6-2-24
KP 6: Prof Richard Wolff A FUTURE WITHOUT FEAR OF IMMIGRANTS - The Zero Hour - Air Date 10-12-24
(38:04) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
Giving a quick list of immigration lies
DEEPER DIVES
(42:07) SECTION A - MIS/DISINFORMATION
A1: How is Trump winning the US immigration debate - Anywhere but Washington - Air Date 10-10-24
(50:26) SECTION B - REALITY CHECK
(1:08:30) SECTION C - OTHERING
(1:26:35) SECTION D - SOLUTIONS
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | This is your one-stop reference guide to every issue that is being wrongly blamed on immigrants as the Trump campaign rhetoric |
| 0:14.5 | turns ever more fascist and xenophobic. Sources providing our top takes in 40 minutes today includes Democracy Now, Crazy Town, The Lever, Velshi, and the Zero Hour. |
| 0:28.3 | Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in four sections. section A, miss and disinformation, section B, reality check, |
| 0:37.6 | section C, othering, and section D solutions. With just 19 days until the presidential election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are ramping up efforts to appeal to a major voting |
| 0:55.3 | block in battleground states. |
| 0:57.6 | Latinx voters. |
| 0:59.2 | Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris appeared at a town hall with Latinx voters in Las Vegas, Nevada hosted |
| 1:05.6 | by Univision last week. |
| 1:07.4 | She took a question from Yvette Castile. |
| 1:11.0 | And I'm an American citizen born to two Mexican parents. |
| 1:17.4 | They were here before I was even born. |
| 1:19.7 | They worked their whole lives. |
| 1:22.0 | But with the way immigration laws change over time, I was only able to help |
| 1:27.1 | my dad get his legal status squared away, but not my mom's. |
| 1:35.0 | My mom passed away just six weeks ago. Oh, I'm so sorry. |
| 1:38.0 | And she was never, ever able to get the type of care and service that she needed or deserved. |
| 1:45.0 | Sorry. |
| 1:48.0 | Take your time. |
| 1:49.0 | So my question for you is, what are your plans or do you have plans to support that subgroup of immigrants who have been here their whole lives or most of them and have to live and act in the shadows. |
| 2:06.3 | There are real people who are suffering because of an inability to put solutions in front of politics. |
| 2:16.0 | I mean an example of this on immigration policy is that as it relates to what we need to do |
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