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...excerpts from the attached article...When Trump's #1 election issue bumps up against reality.
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“The president has been incredibly clear,” Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement. “There will be no safe spaces for industries who harbor violent criminals or purposely try to undermine ICE’s efforts.”

But it was the president who emphasized in a social media post last week the need to protect “very good, long time workers” in the farming and hospitality industries. That message came after a lobbying campaign from Brooke Rollins, the secretary of agriculture, and business leaders who warned about the impacts of the immigration crackdown on key industries.
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But other allies of the president continue to stress the importance of immigrant workers, maintaining that they are essential to many industries and that there are not Americans willing to fill the gap if they are deported.

Representative Andy Harris, Republican of Maryland and the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, joined industry leaders to make that case on Tuesday. Mr. Harris said that the president “realizes that, running in parallel with their deportation of criminals and other people here illegally, there has to be an effort to figure out how to make sure that we have the work force we need.”

“With an unemployment rate of 4 percent, you’re not going to find American workers for a lot of these tasks,” Mr. Harris said during a news conference held by the American Business Immigration Coalition, which represents 1,700 employers. “You haven’t found them even when the unemployment rate was higher. And again, to get the economic boost going that the president talked about, I think it’s a great sign the administration finally realized there is a need for foreign workers.”
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And, btw, keeping our Border closed to immigrants isn't going to help either.


Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/us/politics/trump-conflicting-messages-workplace-raids.html