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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Well, that didn't happen with The Latino Threat.
The Latino Threat became even more pervasive, and where I thought it was actually sort of dying out under the Obama years and earlier,
Then you have Donald Trump.
And I felt like, who gave him a copy of my book?
Because it's almost everything I wrote about the myths of the Latino threat narrative, he basically was shouting them and extolling them and claiming them as truth.
And so he was there saying, everything I wrote in my book,
The immigrants, particularly Latinos, are invading the United States.
They're nothing but criminals.
They're unable to assimilate or unwilling to assimilate.
They don't want to learn English.
They don't want to interact with people socially.
They want to maintain themselves in their own little ghettos and never interact with people.
They're taking all our jobs.
They have uncontrolled reproduction.
All they want to do is have babies.
And this leads to sort of the demographic threat, which I wrote about, was that somehow whites are becoming a much smaller part of the population, which is true, but not because of what they blame people, because of the natural changes that are occurring in society.
And therefore, this idea suggests that you have to have radical solutions, like putting military at the border
trying to get rid of birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants.
And it just goes on and on.
So I was sitting here thinking, wow, did he read my book and just decided that they were all, it was a documentary I was writing and decided he was going to use those same ideas, which he used incredibly effectively.
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