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Trump’s Deportation Sweep in NOLA, TX Ends Minority Biz Aid, Black Women’s Jobless Rate Soars

2025-12-04 Entertainment
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Roland S. Martin
Roland S. Martin
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Tracking Trump Administration Policies Impacting Minority Businesses, Jobs, and Immigration Enforcement

Understand the ripple effects of targeted federal deportations and sweeping state contract changes in Louisiana and Texas. Learn how Black communities are actively fighting back through economic innovation and community advocacy.

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  • Federal agents launched "Operation Catahoula Crunch" in New Orleans, marking a major immigration enforcement surge in Louisiana.
  • Texas dismantled its long-standing contract preference programs for women- and minority-owned businesses, renaming the structure "VetHub."
  • Unemployment for Black women recently reached a four-year high, signaling broad economic decline linked by analysts to systemic policy decisions.
  • Tech leaders promoting Black ownership showcased functional, reality-altering technology at the HOPE Global Forums in Atlanta.

This broadcast details immediate geopolitical and localized impacts stemming from recent administration actions, including aggressive immigration enforcement in the Gulf Coast and economic setbacks in Texas. Experts discuss how these events connect to broader historical patterns of disenfranchisement while showcasing technological innovators building alternative economic futures.

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12.3.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Trump’s Deportation Sweep in NOLA, TX Ends Minority Biz Aid, Black Women’s Jobless Rate Soars Federal agents launched "Operation Catahoula Crunch" in New Orleans--Trump's mass deportation machine hits Louisiana. We'll talk to a reporter who can offer a perspective on what's happening in the Crescent City. Texas just pulled the plug on programs that helped women- and minority-owned small businesses compete for state contracts. The unemployment rate for Black women is at its highest in four years. We'll talk to the NAACP's Vice Chair about how the job losses are a direct result of Trump's racist policy decisions that have rolled back years of progress. And the HOPE Global Forums just wrapped up in Atlanta. The theme: "Future Proofing." We'll show you Roland's conversations with legendary director Bill Duke and the founder of a tech company that can put all your information on your wrist. #BlackStarNetwork partner: Fanbase https://www.startengine.com/offering/fanbase This Reg A+ offering is made available through StartEngine Primary, LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. This investment is speculative, illiquid, and involves a high degree of risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment. You should read the Offering Circular (https://bit.ly/3VDPKjD) and Risks (https://bit.ly/3ZQzHl0) related to this offering before investing. Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, XBox and SamsungTV. The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.

Top Comments (10)

@ChrisAaron-g4e 2025-12-04

Roland Martin , hi it's Twana! Please note, other than voting , the entire country must shut down. By shutting everything only then can we protect all immgrants and at the same time impeach , Trump. Also, shutting down the country will stopping ICE ! And shutting down the entire nation will allow protection of our civil rights!!!! However, this can not happen if millions of Americans don't boycott, vote, and shut down the entire country? Stop paying mortgages, take money out of the bank , and stop all international traveling. Stop going to football games !!!! And stop all travel! Push the banks , airports, and big stores in to bankruptcy! Block all cash to every industry! It's a capitalist nation , that love money! But does not love us. But if Americans , all Americans don't show unity regardless , than we have failed the biggest opportunity in centuries, to make changes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@ChrisAaron-g4e 2025-12-04

Cutting ✂️ off Hulu, and getting rid of Netflix membership is not enough! Even bigger crowds up to 300 million protesting may not work, unless 300 million people stop paying their bills, take their money out of stocks and banks! Stop buying cars at the big dealerships! Stop supporting McDonald's, stop supporting financially Home Depot and Walmart!!!!! Not one more immigrant should be harmed!! But we can't make affective action unless we destroy their wealth!!!! Only when they are losing millions and billions daily, will the people win!!! Nothing else will work without this extreme pressure! Professional Black Athletes , must shut down the up-and-coming super bowl, college basketball suite 16, and the Summer Olympics!!!? Shut it all down!!!!

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@ChrisAaron-g4e 2025-12-04

Sorry but no one must go to work! Stop shopping in the big malls or grocery stores. If we don't do this then we have failed. Shutting down is the only way to break the entire system,? It must be everyone not just a few boycotts!

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@ChrisAaron-g4e 2025-12-04

Stop investing in AI, shut down Telsa cars, and all urban pubilc transportation! Yet, Americans are spoiled selfish and refusing to save our nation buy not shutting down,!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So then there goes Democracy!

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@smsmith5585 2025-12-04

Roland, where can I get that plant spike that tells you how to take care of your plants? I am happy for this young man. I am proud of him. Keep going and keep striving.

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@ChrisAaron-g4e 2025-12-04

Last text , stop supporting Big pharma, stop supporting Big oil, Big Gas and buying homes!!? This is the only way to get the governments and all politicians attention. From Wall Street to The Washington DC , thousands of high paid lobbyist! Close all schools everywhere!!!

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@lewdawg317 2025-12-04

Great show🔴⚫️🟢

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@ChrisAaron-g4e 2025-12-04

Shutting everything down will put pressure onTrump! Do not pay car note ! Pay nothing in larger numbers However, if whites and others don't care we are in trouble! We need 300 million people in the streets now! Cancel all airline tickets , cancel all football tickets, stop going to restaurants !!!! Cancel all Hotels and vacation gigs! Total boycott total shut down! Again if the majority of folks don't come out then yes after immgrants we are next! Pray for Haiti, I pray for the Congo, and I pray for Nigeria Venezuela and Ecuador!

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@tedtalk-n5f 2025-12-05

Damn Roland

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@tedtalk-n5f 2025-12-05

It can be shot with a low budget

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