Debunking Migrants Taking "Black Jobs"
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Laird on WNYC. |
| 0:12.0 | Now more on migration for part of the next conversation. |
| 0:16.0 | We're going to look at the effects of recent migration on New York City's job market and talk about some other economic |
| 0:22.9 | news with reporter and analyst and economics reporting professor at the Newmark School of |
| 0:30.1 | Journalism at CUNY, Greg David, our friend Greg David, who comes on frequently to talk about |
| 0:34.9 | economic news. By now you've probably heard that former President Trump |
| 0:38.0 | claims that the recent influx of migrants poses a threat to native-born people of color, |
| 0:44.0 | particularly the black population of our country in terms of the job market. |
| 0:48.3 | But if you haven't heard, here's a 30-second clip of Trump, |
| 0:52.2 | doubling down on this assertion at the National Association of Black |
| 0:57.0 | Journalists Convention a few weeks ago. |
| 1:00.0 | Coming from the border are millions and millions of people that happen to be taking black |
| 1:07.0 | jobs. |
| 1:08.0 | You had the best? |
| 1:09.0 | What exactly is a black job, sir? A black job is anybody that has a job. |
| 1:13.7 | That's what it is. Anybody that has a job. And they're taking the employment away from black people. |
| 1:20.5 | They're coming in and they're coming in. They're invading. It's an invasion of millions of people, |
| 1:25.0 | probably 15, 16, 17 million people. I have a feeling it's much more than that. |
| 1:29.3 | And everybody's been seeing what's happened. |
| 1:32.3 | The first group of people, the black population, |
| 1:35.3 | is affected most by that. |
| 1:37.3 | So, apart from the shock factor of Trump |
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