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Sure, go for it and watch the American agriculture industry suffer. The immigrants (illegal or otherwise) are willing to do the incredibly difficult jobs of working the fields, harvesting difficult food, and so on. Here's a Newsweek article from 2021 that suggests 49% of the agricultural workforce is illegal immigrants [source.].
Those companies make bank by paying their workers under the table and under minimum wage. Maybe we should crack down on the companies hiring illegal immigrants instead of the actual workers?
But, oh right, this is just another case of the GOP looking to hate on the Other and rile up their base
Spot on. Doing this will suddenly leave large segments of industries without workers, because no American wants to do those jobs. Clearly that’s too difficult a concept for Trump to understand.
Except that is a good thing for him - the more problems, the more he can rally his base around blaming others, regardless of if it makes sense
They’ll raise prices on basic necessities as well, and help claw back all the wage increases we’ve managed to get in the last 3 years.
Can’t have the working class getting too comfortable or we might start trying to fix the other problems that billionaires cause.