Speaking with MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid last night, Marco Gutierrez, founder of Latinos for Trump and member of a rapidly dwindling population of Latino Trump supporters, called out a warning:

“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 going to have taco trucks on every corner.”

Adriano Espaillat, a state senator of New York who was the other talking head on the panel, quickly countered:

I don't know what culture Mr. Gutierrez is talking about, but I know that the Hispanic culture has a saying, a very prominent saying. 'Mi casa, tú casa.' My house, your house. It is a tolerant culture. It is one that welcomes neighbors in. It is one that shares their culture, their music, their folklore.

Twitter is pumped about the prospect of taco trucks everywhere, with the possible exception of Seattle drag genius Dina Martina:


The Washington Post looked into the economic impact of Gutierrez's culinary cautioneering, and came up with some potential good news for the economy:

We'd suddenly see 3.2 million conveniently located taco trucks. How ubiquitous is that? Well, it's one on every corner. But we can also compare it to Starbucks, which seems pretty ubiquitous in a lot of places. In 2012, there were about 11,000 Starbucks locations in the United States.

That means 63 million new jobs — save for those people already employed at taco trucks.


Just a tad more seriously, as we discussed yesterday, during his immigration speech in Arizona, Trump laid out a 10-point plan that would make the life of 11 million unauthorized immigrants (and their families, and decent people everywhere) more anxiety-ridden than it already is.

Trump and his supporters look at immigrants crossing the southern border and see a sea of potential criminals and terrorists. To block their entry, they want to build "a tall, physical, impenetrable, beautiful wall" that no one plans to pay for.

Many others (hopefully many MORE others), including this giant statue that still means something, looks at people crossing the southern border as people in search of opportunity, fleeing violence, or trying to reconnect with family members, and they want to be part of a country that wants to help as best as it can.

Trump wants to create a "deportation task force" that will round up 2 million "criminal immigrants" and deport them "in the first hour" of his presidency. Everyone who remembers Kristallnacht and The Fugitive Slave Act recoils.

Trump wants to push for "biometric tracking systems" at the border. Anyone who's ever read any dystopian sci-fi ever shudders.

Trump supporters see a taco truck on every corner as a symbol of invasion. Taco lovers see a paradise.

Though immigration from Mexico has declined the past two years, according to The Boston Globe, the U.S. is projected to become a majority minority country circa 2055, with Hispanics making up 23 percent of the population. Those Hispanics won't all be immigrants, of course, but each one can build a taco truck business—or any other kind of business—and the country only stands to gain from it.