This week we witnessed President Trump make a huge fundamental mistake on illegal immigration.
Someone within his senior level circle advised him to halt arrests and deportations on service industry and farm workers. Wait! That is called, in legal terms, an amnesty!
Trump stated, “Our farmers are being hurt badly by, you know, they have very good workers, they work for them for 20 years, they're not citizens, but they turn out to be, you know, they're great. And we're going to have to do something about that.” Trump continued, “We can't take farmers and take all their people and send them back, because, they don't have maybe what they're supposed to have.”
What in the hell are you saying, President Trump?
Did any of my readers or did anyone that voted for Trump demand an amnesty?
The politicians can try and split hairs and use warped language to try and soften “halting arrests and deportations”, but the correct term still stands as “AMNESTY”!
Why did Trump make such a stupid statement and decision? He had to have known that America and more importantly his base of MAGA would be infuriated. MAGA was pissed off.
I watched Trump make this statement and my first reaction was Big Ag and Big Hospitality via the open border lobby, called the Chamber of Commerce, had gotten face time with our President. Where was White House Senior Adviser and staunch anti-illegal immigration hawk Stephen Miller when this was going down? There is no way Miller was in these conversations! No way! I would bet a month’s salary it was advisers like Miller that spoke with Trump and convinced the President that this was a huge mistake. Trump recanted after a 48-hour fire storm demanding that Trump return to America First so he would witness MAGA split.
Let’s break this down as to why this was such a bad idea and why does the Chamber of Commerce, Big Ag and Big Service need illegal alien labor so badly.
The answer to the first question as why this is such a terrible idea is because these are jobs for Americans and legal immigrants. Oh, don’t even start with the, “these are jobs Americans won’t do”. Proof of this lie is two days after 76 illegal aliens were arrested from a processing plant in Nebraska, “Every seat in the waiting area of Glenn Valley Foods was occupied with people filling out job applications early Thursday afternoon, two days after the meatpacking plant became the center of the largest worksite immigration raid in the state of Nebraska so far this year.” The article from the NOT CONSERVATIVE NBC News stated that the waiting area was filled with a lot of Spanish speakers. Well, those would be labeled as “Legal Immigrants”. You see the communities that are hurt the most are the legal immigrant and low-income American communities. Why? Because illegal aliens drive down the wages thus forcing Americans to be pushed out.
Did you think Big Ag passes on the savings from their labor costs to the consumer? Is anyone that stupid? No, we pay the total freight on this illegal alien mess. Which leads me to the answer to question number two - Why does the Chamber of Commerce and their constituents want all this cheap illegal alien labor?
Because the labor is cheap, and it is off the books. When it is off the books guess what the employers don’t have to pay: Worker’s Comp, Social Security matching payments, healthcare, 401Ks, payroll tax and on and on! Does it make a little more sense? The employer also has no complaints, no overtime requirements, days off, breaks, and these businesses save millions of dollars all at the expense of the American worker and taxpayer. Then it gets even worse. We, American taxpayers, end up footing the bill for cheap paid labor. We pay for the millions of illegal alien worker’s healthcare. We pay for their children’s education. We pay for their housing assistance. We pay for their access to SNAP, WIC and every other welfare assistance for Americans.
What President Trump did was let Americans into the behind the scenes of the powerful. This is where the powerful and wealthy abuse us to care for the abused illegal aliens that they exploit to enrich themselves.
Did you know that we already have immigration pathways to hire foreign workers for the service and agriculture industries? Did you know the companies would rather exploit illegal alien workers, destroy the American middle class all to become more and more wealthy and powerful.
Finally, the idea that the greatest economy the world has ever seen hinges on the efforts of foreign, third world labor that is illiterate in their own language and who possess zero job skills is insane. So insane that if you believe that theory, you for sure believe that America needs to enter into another endless Middle East war for the Israel!
The number of agricultural and service industry workers is all over the place in terms of percentages of total segmented workforces. The truth is that construction has the largest illegal alien population at 13 percent of the total construction workforce is and the service industry is below 7 percent. The idea that our economy falters when 13 out of 100 construction workers don’t show up or 7 out of 100 service workers are deported is intellectually dishonest at best and an outright lie at worst.
American citizens have been lied to about everything in our current world. Name one thing outside of God that you honestly trust and believe. Name one institution that you trust and believe in.
Propaganda works!
Propaganda worked on our “enemies” across the globe.
Propaganda that was used on our enemies has been used on America and her citizens for decades.
I have said this over and over again: We are at war for the soul and for the survival of America.
Don’t believe me…ok…good luck!
Dust off the old Bracero program CA used back in the 60's. Seemed to work well, could be again working with some modifications. And yes, some of his advisors are full of bad advice.
KH, former spook
I agree, do the right thing for the country and not for Big Business!