To know all the latest information on this election day in the U.S. we contact Carlos Montero, teleSUR's special envoy to Washington D.C.
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00:00Now we are joined once again by our special envoy Carlos Montero in Washington DC with
00:06further updates. Hello Carlos tell us what how what's everything going on over there?
00:13So far let me tell you about what's going on with
00:17Kamala Harris. The information we are getting right now that is she's in Howard University.
00:25They are telling us that the atmosphere is really happy. They are excited
00:30watching the results. There are many battle states that they haven't got yet the numbers to
00:40project a winner but we are in the final hours of the voting here in the United States. Donald
00:48Trump he's in in Mar-a-Lago. Residents in Florida is important country club. They are telling us
00:57that he went to see some of the guests of the Mar-a-Lago that resort and he talked briefly
01:04with them. That's the information that we have so far of the two head quarters. The numbers
01:13keep coming. People I mean it's going to be closing all the polls and hopefully in the
01:19next hours we are going to have a better idea of what's going to happen in this election. Who is
01:25going to win this election? But I want to give a welcome to our coverage to Abel Nunez director
01:32executive director of CARECEN in Washington organization who help the immigrant. We've been
01:39following together the numbers that are coming. Are you surprised? What do you think about this?
01:45Well I think at this moment there hasn't been a surprise. It's really the polls were correct.
01:50Everything is coming in as was expected. I think as the night goes in we'll see what happens in
01:55the blue wall in Michigan in Wisconsin in Pennsylvania but the numbers are training
02:00good for the vice president at this moment but there's still a lot of more votes to count.
02:05That's something is good to clarify because maybe people are watching or cover us and they said look
02:10the numbers. Donald Trump is ahead for quite a few electoral vote but you think that Kamala
02:17Harris is doing okay. No panic. No panic at this moment. You have to remember that usually in most
02:24elections the republican leaning states always come in first then you get the big cities because
02:29like in big cities like Pennsylvania you will have the cities coming first but there's still a lot of
02:34rural communities that take longer to take the vote in. So we're still good. I think we still
02:39have a couple of more hours before we're really going to see what the real tendencies are of this
02:44election. That's what I mean is the atmospheric like I was telling you before in Howard University
02:51with all Kamala and his team is waiting. The result is upbeat and they think everything is going
02:57okay. Tell me what's the situation of the immigrants here in the United States in a campaign
03:05that they were so badly treated by Donald Trump. He said awful words about them that the country
03:15being invaded by immigrants and he's going to change that situation. How's the feeling on the
03:21street? How is the feeling of people you work with? What do they think about this? Well first I have
03:25to say that the first thing we have to say is that immigrants are a blessing to this nation.
03:30Having said that there's a lot of fear in the community because the rhetoric that has been coming
03:34from the Trump administration from the Trump campaign has been really really created a lot
03:40of fear in our community. What are the things that he's projecting to do once he gets into office
03:45about mass deportations will impact our community but will also impact our economy. I think that
03:50that's one of the things that we people are forgetting that immigrants are the backbone of
03:54the U.S. economy and if Trump is allowed to do if he wins what he plans to do it will create pain
04:01for all Americans not just immigrants. A lot of people who follow Donald Trump and believe what
04:06he's saying they have the misconception that immigrants with not the right paper they
04:15don't pay taxes but they do pay taxes. Correct right now we have an estimate that in just 2022
04:21they provided like 96 billion dollars into the social security because many work but they work
04:27under the table and so they can't collect that social security so they pay into the system
04:33but they can't take anything out. So besides that they also provide labor they are entrepreneurs
04:39and so they move the economy so when immigrants come into an area they make the economy and the
04:46area better for everyone not just immigrants. You were telling me that the rhetoric Donald
04:51Trump rhetoric create fears in the community how do they express that fear? Well a lot of them are
04:58beginning to make plans if Trump wins they're thinking what happens do they need to be
05:04thinking about moving back to their country of origin. There are many families here that
05:08that are in what is called mixed status families meaning that one person is undocumented and then
05:13we have citizen children maybe a legal permanent resident partner so they're trying to figure out
05:18what happens to our children what happens to us what happens to their homes they a lot of them
05:23have houses in this country they have lives they have businesses and at this point they don't know
05:28what's going to happen if Trump wins. Let's talk about the democrats Barack Obama the vice
05:38president was Joe Biden he promised a lot of things for the immigrant community in the USA
05:45immigration reform never happened when one of the leaders of the party democrat
05:54party don't fulfill a promise do you lose trust on that person do you think the democrat could
06:00happen the same with Kamala Harris she can promise a lot to the immigrant community
06:05and then when she takes the presidency she's going to say maybe what I was promising to all
06:11those guys I'm not going to be able to keep it up. Well I think that what we've seen in the last
06:15couple of years is that the really the you know how we look at immigration in the U.S. has shifted
06:21to the right so we have republicans that have moved to the extreme right and we have democrats
06:26that have moved from the center to the right so Kamala Harris is actually offering less it's
06:31supporting a republican bill but what we what we will have on a Kamala administration is access
06:38and the ability for us to kind of shape her policy and hopefully make it softer so that
06:44immigrants can with the power of the presidency be able to continue to live here in this country
06:49and make this country great again. Why do you think that immigration the subject switched to
06:56the right? Why? Well I think it's the the what happened in the last couple of years after the
07:02pandemic we had a huge migration of the Venezuelan community the Haitian community that came in large
07:08numbers in a short amount of time it has overwhelmed the system it has taxed the local municipalities
07:15and I think there's a tendency in this country is like the immigrants of today pay the price of
07:20coming in because the immigrants in the past say we were the good immigrants the new ones are the
07:24bad ones but that's not the reality every immigrant group has had challenges but every immigrant group
07:30actually contributes more than they take. How did the community react when in a debate in the only
07:38debate that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump had Trump said that the Haitian immigrants they eat
07:45their pets be careful with your pets because the Haitian immigrants are going to eat it how the
07:52community react? Well I think that at first we were it's shocking because we thought it was a joke
07:57but this is someone that's running for the highest office and the most powerful nation in the world
08:02to be saying things like that it matters it has weight and the fact that he's still this close to
08:08being a president is really where some of where we're at as a nation I think we're divided the
08:14divisions I think are fake people are are scared and they're using scapegoats like immigrants but
08:19that is not the reality that people live when people sort of live with immigrants they understand
08:24that they only make this country better. Abel Nunez thank you very much very kind thank you for your
08:30analysis before going back to you to the studios I would like to our sources are telling us that
08:37Kamala Harris more probably is going to speak tonight let's see if that happened but that's
08:44the information we are getting from our sources I'm going back to you
08:48we are going to be ready here in Washington for whenever you need us.