“We’re looking at doing something where in the case of good, reputable farmers, they can take responsibility for the people that they hire, and let them have responsibility, because we can’t put the farms out of business, and at the same time, we don’t want to hurt people that aren’t criminals,” Trump told reporters.
Sounds a lot like slavery to me
Sounds like bullshit.
Source: Farms near me have already lost people to deportation. People with no criminal record. People who paid more taxes than a lot of people I know. People who work hard.
Fuck this administration.
There’s a tension in the Republican party between the ones that talk about immigration just to be elected (the owner class that bankrolls the Republican party), and the ones that actually want them gone (like Stephen Miller and most of the MAGA base). The former realises that illegal immigration is useful to stop workers from organising and depress wages, the latter doesn’t care about that and wants them gone. That’s why you are Trump taking both sides of the issue: he wants exceptions for hotels, construction and farms (because he’s hired illegals himself for these things), but he also doesn’t want to alienate his base because ‘they took our jobs’ and all that.
That’s the main reason ICE has historically been told to only deport ‘criminals’ and leave the rest alone instead of doing what they’re doing now.
Ha tension! Wake me up when one of these fuck heads goes on camera and calls trump a little bitch. Until then they are all terrified of a guy that shits himself.
Why would they need to do that? All they had to do was call him and ask for him to stop with the raids on businesses (possibly in exchange for a donation), and they got exactly what they wanted.