The 'Ready, Fire, Aim' Administration of Donald J. Trump...
...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
Replies to: The 'Ready, Fire, Aim' Administration of Donald J. Trump...
Fresh crisp lettuce, fresh soft towels. Is it too much to ask, MAGA Cultists?
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Just add strawberries and cream, yummy.
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Three cheers for slave labor!
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What is this all about?
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"virtual slave labor" like you like.
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Back to the OP topic...since you haven't defended Trump's lack of forethought wrt Immigration, do
you agree that he needs to come out with a coherent policy/plan that addresses the need for immigrant labor in many industries while also funding more CBP and ICE officers, as well as immigration judges, for economic reasons along with public safety?...kind of like what the Biden sponsored bipartisan Senate Bill did?
5000 a day through the front door with countless through the unmonitored side door isn't a strategy
It's a disaster, and why Trump won.
But if you're going to invite them in, pay them fairly with benefits. "virtual slave wages" is cruel.
Actually, Trump won in large part due to his killing of the Senate Border Security and Immigration
Bill that Biden's admin crafted along with non-MAGA GOP Senators...passage would have resolved DJT's #1 campaign talking point, since it addressed the issues you're talking about.
Why do you continually "forget" why Trump did this?...It's not like I've stopped reminding you...
It should be painfully (to you) obvious by now that the bill wasn't necessary to curb immigration.
Biden's immigration disaster was a choice and choices have consequences. One of those consequences was Trump.
"if Democrats won't secure the border, fascists will." - David Frum