A taco truck. (photo: KALW)
Apparently more taco trucks would be a scary, not a tasty, prospect.
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founding member of the “Latinos for Trump” group made a strange
argument to support U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump,
saying that a loose U.S. immigration policy would lead to “taco trucks
on every corner.”"My culture is a very dominant culture. And it's imposing, and it's causing problems. If you don't do something about it, you're gonna have taco trucks on every corner," said Marco Gutierrez during an interview with MSNBC on Thursday. "We have a lot of good things that we bring to the United States, but we also have a lot problems."
Interviewer Joy Reid seemed taken aback by the comments, replying “I don't even know what that means, and I'm almost too afraid to ask.”
The group says on its website that it is “empowered to bring about change in the status quo narrative of Latino society and voice our concerns of Illegal immigration.”
The group supports Trump’s hard-line approach to immigration and his plan to build a wall across the Mexico-U.S. border, a proposal that has unsurprisingly offended many Latin people. Trump has previously made racist, unfounded comments regarding Mexicans in the U.S., associating them with drugs, crime and rape.
The comments come on the back of Trump’s meeting with unpopular Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in Mexico City on Wednesday.
While Trump has remained steadfast in his plan to build the wall, and build it on Mexico's dime, Peña Nieto rejected the proposal and said after the meeting with Trump that Mexico will not pay for the wall.
Users took to social media mocking the comments, with many welcoming the more Mexican food under the hashtag #TacoTrucksOnEveryCorner. Surely there could be worse things to happen out the of US election.
Comments
+11
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2016-09-03 09:21
I don't understand why a taco truck on every corner is a bad thing. I'm eating a taco right now as a matter of fact.
+4
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2016-09-04 06:47
I could sure as hell use a taco truck on my corner. Send the McDonalds over somewhere else.
+9
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2016-09-03 09:58
When you are selling
yourself on bigotry, you risk getting so caught up in it that you wander
way off in the weeds. You forget that not everyone is stuck in your
negative mode of thinking.
+7
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2016-09-03 10:12
Counter it with a barbecue on every lawn.
By the way, whatever happened to a chicken in every pot?
Or a sandwich in every kid's hand all over the whole damned world?
The world has enough tacos, chickens and sandwiches if they were distributed evenly, damn it!
End of random rant . . . for now.
By the way, whatever happened to a chicken in every pot?
Or a sandwich in every kid's hand all over the whole damned world?
The world has enough tacos, chickens and sandwiches if they were distributed evenly, damn it!
End of random rant . . . for now.
+9
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2016-09-03 10:24
Tacos are my favorite
food. When I was in college and watching some sporting event and
drinking and partying, while everyone else was eating Pizza, I was
eating tacos.
+8
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2016-09-03 10:51
Gosh, that vision sets a higher bar for us Jews -- a pastrami sandwich truck on every corner. Why didn't we think of that?
