--- title: Latinos For Trump Founder Warns 'Taco Trucks On Every Corner' description: Marco Gutierrez, a Mexican immigrant himself, said Mexican culture is "a very dominant culture" canonical: https://time.com/4477569/donald-trump-latinos-immigration-tacos/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-02T14:44:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:22:45.607Z article:section: Politics og:title: Latinos For Trump Founder Warns 'Taco Trucks On Every Corner' og:description: Marco Gutierrez, a Mexican immigrant himself, said Mexican culture is "a very dominant culture" og:url: https://time.com/4477569/donald-trump-latinos-immigration-tacos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta2b06e24638579af/6988a329196cf4195703ceb6/donald-trump-hispanic-advisory-council.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with his Hispanic Advisory Council at Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of New York og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Latinos For Trump Founder Warns 'Taco Trucks On Every Corner' twitter:description: Marco Gutierrez, a Mexican immigrant himself, said Mexican culture is "a very dominant culture" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta2b06e24638579af/6988a329196cf4195703ceb6/donald-trump-hispanic-advisory-council.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Latinos For Trump Founder Wants To Prevent 'Taco Trucks On Every Corner' > Sponsored content. 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Carlo Allegri—Reuters  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 2, 2016 2:44 PM UTC Donald Trump often promotes his hard-line immigration stance by stoking fears about undocumented immigrants committing crimes. But the founder of Latinos for Trump has invoked a different demon: tacos. [NBC reports ](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latinos-trump-founder-warns-taco-trucks-every-corner-n641976)that Marco Gutierrez, a Mexican immigrant himself, said Thursday in a discussion of illegal immigration, “My culture is a very dominant culture. And it is imposing, and it is causing problems. If you don’t do something about it you are going to have taco trucks on every corner.” Gutierrez’s comment came one day after Trump [gave a new speech on immigration](http://time.com/4475417/donald-trump-immigration-policy-mexico-deportation/?iid=sr-link3) that called for creation of a deportation task force, suspending immigration from certain countries and creating an ideological test for potential immigrants. **Read More:** [_Three Unanswered Questions About Donald Trump’s Immigration Policy_](http://time.com/4475880/donald-trump-immigration-policy-questions/?iid=sr-link7) This isn’t the first time tacos have been center stage in discussions of Trump and Latinos; the candidate himself memorably celebrated Cinco de Mayo this year by posting a [picture of himself eating a taco bowl](http://time.com/4320045/donald-trump-hispanics-tweet-taco-bowl-cinco-de-mayo/?iid=sr-link1) with the caption, “I love Hispanics!” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4477569/donald-trump-latinos-immigration-tacos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4477569/donald-trump-latinos-immigration-tacos/"},"headline":"Latinos For Trump Founder Wants To Prevent 'Taco Trucks On Every Corner'","datePublished":"2016-09-02T14:44:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:22:45.607Z","description":"Marco Gutierrez, a Mexican immigrant himself, said Mexican culture is \"a very dominant culture\"","url":"https://time.com/4477569/donald-trump-latinos-immigration-tacos/","keywords":["Immigration","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta2b06e24638579af/6988a329196cf4195703ceb6/donald-trump-hispanic-advisory-council.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta2b06e24638579af/6988a329196cf4195703ceb6/donald-trump-hispanic-advisory-council.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with his Hispanic Advisory Council at Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of New York","caption":"Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with his Hispanic Advisory Council at Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Aug. 20, 2016.","creditText":"Carlo Allegri—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/immigration/","name":"Immigration"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4477569/donald-trump-latinos-immigration-tacos/","name":"Latinos For Trump Founder Wants To Prevent 'Taco Trucks On Every Corner'"}}]}] ```