What exactly is a 'Black job,' Mr. Trump?

It's a simple phrase, but what does it mean? More specifically, what did it mean when Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump insisted in his debate with President Joe Biden that migrants crossing the southern border are taking "Black jobs"?

Trump's comments in a debate viewed by many, including me, as a disaster for Biden because of his halting presentation came in what turned out to be the debate's only reference to Black employment. It surfaced when CNN moderator Dana Bash asked Biden about what he had done for Black voters. Trump retorted with a jab at one of his signature issues, Biden's record on the border.

Referencing the migrants entering the country through the southern border, Trump said, "They're taking Black jobs now and it could be 18, it could be 19 and even 20 million people. They're taking Black jobs, and they're taking Hispanic jobs, and you haven't seen it yet, but you're gonna see something that's going to be the worst in our history." Got that? Trump did not mention how House Republicans walked away from a long-needed, longsought bipartisan bill to overhaul immigration policy.

Credit three senators Oklahoma Republican James Lankford, Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy, and Arizona independent Kyrsten Sinema-with crafting the bill passed in the Senate early this year.