Thursday's episode of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show had a remarkable double standard on the idea of illegal immigration. On one hand, Americans living illegally in Mexico were sarcastically mocked and denounced for not assimilating into the local culture and having a negative economic impact, but later, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey joined host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper to lead a standing ovation for the Minneapolis protestors denouncing immigration enforcement.
While sitting in a two-bedroom apartment that one can rent for $600 per month, correspondent Grace Kuhlenschmidt sarcastically asked Carla, a member of Frente Anti-Gentrification CDMX, “Okay, Carla, let’s get down to what’s really important. What do you think of this place? I'm thinking of relocating, and I want to really love it.”
Carla, who was also wearing a mask and decked out in anti-ICE apparel, mourned, “I mean, that is the main issue. You come in here with dollars and price us out because we can't compete with that. And at the same time, there have been many cases of evictions of places to be turned into kind of like this, Airbnbs.”
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. steve malzberg
