Kumar: Costs, ICE Are Pushing Latinos Toward Democrats
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[0:00] What are you hearing from Latino voters as to how they are intending to vote, if
[0:04] they have not yet done so? So we just thank you so much for having
[0:08] this conversation. You know, one of the things that what
[0:10] the Latino has done has been focusing specifically on the Rio Grande Valley
[0:15] because, as you mentioned, the Rio Grande Valley.
[0:17] If folks remember, that was the that was the area that swung the most right
[0:21] towards Trump. And at the time it was because of two
[0:24] things. One was the economy.
[0:25] They were really getting blows, one after the other, and they just couldn't
[0:28] make their paychecks meet. And two, it was the massive amount of
[0:32] folks crossing the border where people felt increasingly unsafe.
[0:36] And so that was why they voted for Trump.
[0:38] Fast forward, I've spent a lot of time in the Rio Grande Valley, and those are
[0:42] the two issues now that are forcing people to go back into the Democratic
[0:46] fold. I'll give you the example of a builder.
[0:49] His name is Ronnie concern us, and he was telling me that right before Trump
[0:53] was elected, in order for him to build a commercial building, it was costing him
[0:57] $300 a square foot since Trump took office.
[1:01] It cost him now $630 a square foot, and he flagged two things.
[1:05] One was that he couldn't get his workers.
[1:08] His workers were getting picked up by Border Patrol and Ice on the job site.
[1:13] He wasn't sure if they were going to be able