“And it’s causing problems”. Thought exercise: perhaps if there were taco trucks at every corner, maybe that would increase the availability of the rich, savory and labor-intensive tamal, aka perfection steamed inside a corn husk. Are Trump’s surrogates now accidentally admitting that the most risky thing about immigration is an abundance of taco trucks? Trump followed that up the same day with a major speech on his immigration position, meant to clarify a stance that had become muddled as the candidate vacillated between “softening” his policy and maintaining the hardline policies he’d touted during the primary. At one point, he laments that Chinese have “completely taken over” parts of Chinatown in California. Trump is deeply unpopular with Mexicans, especially after he said the country was a source of rapists and criminals when he kicked off his campaign.
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During a period in our history when America was more or less homogeneous, Herbert Hoover promised voters a chicken in every pot and a auto in every garage. I have six kids, guys. “In the next three generations, if my kids have six kids, you are talking about 280 million people with the illegal immigrants and all the people who are here, Hispanic based”. Adriano Espaillat, a Dominican, said he was “offended” by the statement.
Gutierrez must never have been to New York City.
“My culture is a very dominant culture”, he told a flummoxed Joy Ann Reid, guest host on All In With Chris Hayes.
The comment sparked a slew of Twitter jokes, food truck guides and musings about the economic impact this hypothetical fleet of taco trucks would have on America.
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A map of L.A. -area taco trucks compiled in 2011 by local blog The Great Taco Hunt appeared to show dozens of trucks stationed around the city, including a almost ideal square of 10 trucks around the Koreatown area.
