Democratic strategist Van Jones said late Tuesday that “undocumented people” are “fearful” as votes are counted and the election swings from Vice President Harris to former President Trump.
“Tomorrow, there will be people at the dry cleaners giving clothes to people who don't have documents. Some people who will brush their teeth tomorrow will have no documents. And they will feel scared tonight. “We're doing it,” Jones said.
Trump has put immigration and border issues at the center of his campaign during this election. he made a thorough callNational GuardHe said his second term would be to carry out “the largest deportation operation in American history,” and local police decided to carry out mass deportations.
Those pledges were tied to a number of false claims about immigrants, including the amplification of a conspiracy theory accusing Haitian immigrants of kidnapping and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
During the CNN interview, Jones also mentioned black women and transgender people in her emphatic remarks. mediaite.
“They thought, tomorrow morning, they'll be able to put their shoulders back a little bit and walk out, maybe they'll be able to breathe for the first time and feel like they belong somewhere. They know how. We've done everything, but it's going to be a lot harder.' Tomorrow is the time for them to hold their heads up, and they're not the only ones hurting tonight,” Jones said.
“If you're the parent of a transgender child, your child's face has been used as a stepping stone to empower someone, and that doesn't feel good,” Jones added.
recentNational poll of black women in AmericaA majority of black women voters (71%) say this is the most important election of their lives, according to a survey conducted by The Highland Project and Brilliant Corners Research and Strategies.
“These are the people who woke up this morning with a dream and went to bed with a nightmare,” Jones concluded.
Decision Desk Headquarters predicted that Trump would win the presidential election, and made the call after Trump won just 270 electoral votes, declaring his predicted victory in Pennsylvania and Alaska.
