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Advocating there. thats a really interesting story. we will put out a link to that story. worth our viewers hearing about. thanks for joining us tonight, glenn. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: meanwhile hazleton, pennsylvania has changed a lot. neighborhoods basically lookok like 1955. why is that? we will get to that in just a minute. -if you told me a year ago where id be right now... aah! ...i would have said you were crazy. but so began the year of me. i discovered the true meaning of paper...

About bob menendez, he would never consider hiring someone on the basis of relevant qualifications. recently we told you on this program about the wave ofre demographic change that has transformed the city of hazleton, pennsylvania. in the year 2000, hazleton was less than 2% hispanic. today thanks to mass immigration, hazleton is majority hispanic. more than half of the residents there speak a language other than english at home. we got those numbers from a recent piece in "national geographic"...

Almost always they say that, probably to hide the truth of it, which is that the starkest effects of mass immigration dont take place in white neighborhoods. they take place where native born african-americans live. for example, not so long ago, compton, california, the famous compton, was the largest black communityy west of the mississippi. today only a third of comptons population is african-american. the rest is hispanic. thats huge change. thats massive dislocation. nobody talks about it. p...

In small towns like hazleton, its an entire different story. >> tucker: yeah, it is. i noticed that michaelt bloombergs census track in new york is 5% hispanic. he is a hypocrite. you are not, though. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: i want to bring you some news thats just broken. china has confirmed that north korean dictator kim jong un did make a visit to china by train apparently to meet chinese president xi jinping. it was kims first trip abroad we know about sinc...

Screed against diversity," whatever that means. he suggested we were bigots for talking about the subject at all. this, of course, is how you bully people into being quietec while you permanently change their country, and usually it works. because nobody wants the headache of that. but, in this case, its an important enough topic thatn were going to go a little deeper on it. what happened in hazleton is happening around the country. neighborhoods transformed forever with no public debate. whats ...

Who gets to decide what theg changes are and how big they are. and i always wondered, for a town like hazleton, do the people who live there have any say in it at all? >> no. they didnt have any say in it, tucker. i was at the forefront ofn that issue in hazleton where we saw a very sudden migration of newcomers coming into the city with no real explanation as to why it was happening and why hazleton. and it is startling for a community to see a change like that. to give you a good example, in t...

No one who makes these decisions does it in their own neighborhood. they say it will make you richer. has hazleton become richer? >> no, quite the opposite. it becomes much more difficult when your income tax goes down. our population grew by 50% but our tax revenue stayed the same. thats when we realized we not only had -- we had an illegal immigration problem on top of it all, but no, when people are coming in and are of lower income or lower end of the economic ladder, thats less tax money th...