Leo R. Chavez

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1,192 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 20 Dec

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Just give me a signal and I'll stop so you can ask me another question.

Well, I mean, first and foremost, the Latino threat narrative is very effective in getting people to vote for certain candidates.

It's a very effective motivator because it's a motivation of fear.

That if you can get people afraid and you can say you can solve the problem, you hopefully get a chance to get people to come out and vote for you.

And that's what we've seen continually over the last hundred years, but particularly over the last since 2015.

And I say, you know, Latino threats become mainstream.

It's it's in the willingness of politicians to use it.

to get elected.

I mean, you see it in Miami.

You see it with the governor of Florida.

You see it across the United States and Texas, particularly.

And so it motivates policies that seem radical, like, you know, putting...

barbed wire on the Rio Grande.

So when people, as they slip into it, they get caught up and drown.

I mean, it's just a macabre set of policies that seem to work.

Or right now, it allows the Supreme Court to allow the administration to

to basically pick people up because of racial profiling.

I mean, this is unheard of, but it's the Latino threat.

How did the judges even rationalize it?

Well, there's so many of them.

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