While speaking about immigration and the economy, former President Donald Trump claimed that immigrants were taking American jobs from Black and Hispanic workers.
What exactly are 'Black jobs' — and are they really at risk from the recent surge of immigrants? 'They're taking Black jobs now and it could be 18, it could be 19 and even 20 million people,' former President Donald Trump said in the debate Thursday about the role immigrants play in the U.S. economy.
' As debate-watchers digested Trump's remarks, some voiced confusion and criticized the moderators for not pushing back. Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms joked in a post on X: 'I have a law degree. Does that get me a #blackjob?' Cherron Perry-Thomas, a Pennsylvania voter watching the debate in a focus group with NBC News, said Trump has a 'very limited vocabulary' when discussing Black workers. 'We’re very diverse people.
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