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Barack Obama: “Before the latest round of immigrants showed up, you had huge unemployment rates among African-American youth. And, so…”

On the recordJanuary 30, 2008
Before the latest round of immigrants showed up, you had huge unemployment rates among African-American youth. And, so, I think to suggest somehow that the problem that we're seeing in inner-city unemployment, for example, is attributable to immigrants, I think, is a case of scapegoating that I do not believe in, I do not subscribe to.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama discusses the issue of unemployment among African-American youth and criticizes the scapegoating of immigrants.

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