The conservative, Murdoch–owned Wall Street Journal editorialized that Trump’s immigration plan is in deep trouble, and rightly so. His goal (Stephen Miller’s) is to deport 11 million immigrants (one of every 20 people in the country. That’s led to raids at workplaces. Even his supporters are shocked. They voted to deport criminals, “the worst of the worst,” not the hard-working people who contribute to the economy.
Vincent Scardina is a Trump voter in Key West, Fla., who owns a roofing company. Six of his workers, originally from Nicaragua, were en route to a job late last month when they were detained, according to a report by a local NBC affiliate. Their attorney says five of those men have valid work permits, pending asylum cases, and no criminal records. We haven’t been able to verify that, but if it’s correct, jailing them is a strange enforcement priority.
“It’s going to be really hard to replace those guys,” Mr. Scardina said. “We’re not able, in Key West, to just replace people as easily as, say, a big city.” He also got emotional. “You get to know these guys. You become their friends,” he said. “You see what happens to their family.” Mr. Scardina’s message to the President that he helped to elect: “What happened here? This situation is just totally, just blatantly, not at all what they said it was.”
Four hours after that post about farms and hotels, Mr. Trump was back on Truth Social. President Biden let in “21 Million Unvetted, Illegal Aliens,” who have “stolen American Jobs,” he said. “I campaigned on, and received a Historic Mandate for, the largest Mass Deportation Program in American History.” For the record, the Census Bureau says the U.S. population is about 342 million, so he’s talking about maybe deporting 1 person in every 20.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump’s deportation maestro, Stephen Miller, wants the immigration cops to arrest 3,000 migrants a day. That means raiding businesses across the country. Mr. Trump prefers to talk about “CRIMINALS” because he knows that’s where he has broad public support.
But his federal agents are out raiding job sites full of non-criminal, hard-working people who are contributing to the American economy. The real policy isn’t what Mr. Trump says, but what his agents do on the ground.
How can immigration czar Miller meet his goal without deporting farm workers, construction laborers, restaurant staff, and hotel workers?
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I read a smattering of the comments after this WSJ article and many writers were critical of #47. But too late for us who are stuck with the dope that the WSJ enabled.
Meanwhile, even small, Delhi, NY had 500+ No Kings rally-goers this morning. Glad to be in the crowd.
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I had try he same reaction as you did. The wsj , Murdoch, and the rest of the so-called mainstream republicans made this debacle possible. Not only did the party demagogue the immigration issue, they refused to vote for a compromise solution at least twice since 2008, and refused to negotiate even more.
250 protestors in Tullahoma, a military town in red Tennessee.
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Miller = Himmler
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The editorial page of the WSJ has long been a de facto open borders advocate. That was true long before the Murdoch family purchased the WSJ.
The Chamber of Commerce wing of the GOP wants unlimited amounts of cheap, compliant labor that suppresses wages. That’s by far the main reason that blue-collar people now vote heavily Republican; unlike unionized teachers, they face intense competition from mass immigration.
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Carla,
You are correct that the WSJ represents the business community that wants cheap labor. But it’s also true that most immigrants do work that American workers shun.
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So let me see if I get this? 5 of the 6 had work permits while waiting for an immigration hearing. I am fine with that. That is not undocumented. Most rightly or wrongly will be denied refugee status . But it would be cruel and un- American and a violation of Treaties we have signed to deny these people a hearing. The 6th obviously does not . So the Trumptard employer illegally and knowingly hired an undocumented worker . The standard difficult to prove in court . Almost as good as the Toyota with the MAGA sticker on it. Although many Jobs immigrants fill are jobs Americans no longer want to do. Especially since the great Migration robbed the South of virtual slave farm labor. There are many industries where Americans would work had wages not been undercut. A NYC Union Electrician makes more on a standard week than most NYC Union teachers with a Masters + 30 Credits Although teachers have a shorter work year. . For a number of reasons including Covid changes to office occupancy but mainly non Union Contractors employing large numbers of undocumented immigrants. 1500 Union Electricians have experienced long periods of unemployment while cranes were rising all over the City Sky line . When you break almost any occupation down to small repetitive tasks you do not need skilled labor. That is the story of the Production Line. The original makers of Automobiles Carriage Builders, were a skilled trade / Guild . Ford raised wages not so his employees would be able to buy his Model T. He did so because he could not keep workers on mountainous production lines. Whether it is a meat packing plant in Iowa or a filthy,stinky, subway tunnel rehab in NYC . You would be amazed at how many Americans want jobs when the pay and benefits compensate them well. Meat packing as a unionized industry paid workers better than any other Non Union Manufacturing in the 70s. The worker went home took a shower and forgot about the conditions as he paid the College tuition for his Children and planned a trip to Disney .
As they broke the Unions they became Jobs Americans wont do. The solution is labor law reform that would prevent employers from exploiting labor regardless of immigration status. Enable immigrants to be organized assuring they would not be exploited.
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Joel ,
I agree. Unions are the best answer to exploitation of labor.
Immigrants need a path to citizenship. These are not enough judges to hear their cases.
The Senate agreed on a bill in 2024, but Trump told them to vote against it so he could use the issue in his campaign.
He doesn’t want to fix the problem. He wants to exploit it.
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No argument from me on that. Understand that the 23-24 bill negotiated in the senate would have been very restrictive. It also would allow hearings at the border by hearing officers rather than Judges.
Democrats basically capitulated to most Republican demands. Of course you would not know that from Reich Wing media
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The Republicans refused to take yes for an answer.
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