wild. and you know, when we cut into that like wild third, what we re often, like, getting back is the kind of most productive, most airable, best farming land on the planet. and if we want to start planting trees to pick up carbon, which as you said, that recent study said if we planted an entire continental united states worth of trees, we could actually like mitigate two-thirds of climate change. but we d be planting an entire continental united states worth of trees. and if you looked, like, there s not a continental united states, like, worth of land to just go around on the planet. right. and so, exactly like we start hitting these trade-offs extremely rapidly. and in fact, we already are. when you talk about the food supply, i mean, one of the things that connects what we were just talking about in this story is the usda does have climate scientists who work on researching how climate will affect crop yields. there s been some crazy research about the way that warmer tempe
melting, the scary new warning from climate scientists about the way we use land, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. this week we saw the worst targeted mass murder of hispanics in recent american history and the largest ever single state raid of unauthorized immigrants over, overwhelmingly hispanics as well. there are still people in custody in mississippi whose sole crime was doing the grueling work of rendering chicken for americans to eat without authorization to do so, so you can i can drive up to a window and have a bag of nuggets handed to us. there are hundreds of kids who have been traumatized by the raid, and as far as we know, none of the owners of these chicken plants have been prosecuted or arrested or detained. it was just four days after the mass murder of 22 predominantly hispanic people in el paso by a person who said he was fighting back against an invasion, the very same word used repeatedly
of the white house in the last couple of months has really sort of risen the temperature around this country. i mean, just looking at the response of what folks what happened in times square earlier this week. the country is terrified. they re terrified because the highest office of the land is out here inciting violence against people of color. so for him to come out and just try to use this moment to point at someone else as being the problem is absolutely ridiculous. and there is also charlie, there is also, to natalia s point about someone else being the problem, there is this weird rubber and glue thing. i m not the puppet, you re the puppet, he says to hillary clinton while russia is actively working in a criminal and systemic fashion to get him elected. this is a guy who literally can t get through a paragraph without saying something completely head-scratching. he is going to go around talking
and, you know, if when we cut into that, like wild third, what we re often like getting back is the kind of most productive, most arable, best farming land on the planet. and if we want to start planting trees to pick up carbon, which you said, that kind of recent study said, if we planted an entire continental united states worth of trees, we could actually mitigate two-thirds worth of climate change, but we would be planting an entire continental united states, like worth of trees. and if you look, like, there s not a continental united states like worth of land to just go around on the planet. right. so exactly, we start hitting these trade-offs extremely rapidly. in fact, we already are. when you talk about the food supply, i mean, one of the things that connects what we were just talking about in this story is the usda does have climate scientists who work on researching how climate will affect crop yields. there s been some crazy research about the way that warmer tempera
they made more than they could in their small village in costa rica. some own land. they have their own houses. they have cattle. for them this was a positive experience. there are people who also tell you they had bad experiences with individual managers who were abusive or very demanding who essentially knew they were undocumented and could exploit them. but a lot of people are very thankful for this job. yeah, in some ways it s sort of the paradigm of a win-win and net benefit. everyone here has in this contractual relationship that was entered into seemed to benefit. josh partlow, thanks for reporting. thanks very much. joining me now victoria francesco soto at university of texas austin and an msnbc political analyst, and todd schulte, president of forward u.s., business and tech leaders committed to meaningful criminal justice reform.