Transcript: Trump Arrest of Immigrant Shocks Small MAGA Town
Sargent: You’ve worked for many years as a waitress, right? Some of it at the waffle house, and you’ve also cleaned houses. Can you talk about that? You’ve met a lot of American families doing that, right? You wait on American families every day, don’t you?
Hui: Yes. And I was not cleaning houses first. One day, I was working in John’s Waffle House and one older gentleman—he was 70 or 80 something years old—was so upset. So I started talking to him, [saying], You OK? He said, No, my house is a mess. My wife, she’s sick, and I don’t have much money for somebody [to] clean my house. So I felt so bad. So I offered him, I can clean your house for free till your wife gets better. He looked at me and was like, For free? I was like, Yeah, sure, I can help you. So he was like, You can help keep my house for free? I said, Yeah, anyway, you say you don’t have much money to pay. You don’t have to pay me, and I can help. So I started helping clean his house for free. And then people started talking about, Oh, Carol, she cleans houses. I was like, No, I do not clean houses. [But he said], Yes. She cleans very good, she doesn’t charge you much. So then people started to come to me and tell me to help them clean houses, from one to one. So that was how I started cleaning houses for people.
Sargent: When you wait tables at the restaurant, you must get to know a lot of American families. You must have gotten to know them pretty well over time, right? Can you talk about that?