In a stunning about-face, President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is drafting legislation to allow undocumented migrant workers to remain in the United States — a move likely to ignite fierce backlash among immigration hardliners in his own base.
Speaking before a rally crowd in Des Moines, Trump said farmers and hospitality businesses cannot afford to lose long-serving undocumented workers and should be given responsibility for overseeing their status.
“Farmers know better,” Trump declared. “They work with these people for years. You had cases where people worked 14, 15 years on a farm and got thrown out viciously, and we can’t do it.”
Trump, who built much of his political brand on harsh immigration enforcement, told supporters he had ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to halt workplace raids at farms, restaurants, and hotels last month after an outcry from agricultural leaders who warned they were being crippled by labor shortages.
“Let the farmers be responsible, and if they don’t do a good job, we’ll throw them… out of the country,” he added. “We’ll let the illegals stay and we’ll throw the farmer… out, okay? Get ready, farmer!”
Trump’s remarks came as he turned to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who he credited with raising the issue. “Brooke Rollins brought it up and said, ‘So we have a little problem. The farmers are losing a lot of people,’ and we figured it out,” Trump said.
While he acknowledged that the “serious radical right” might be unhappy with his pivot, Trump insisted, “They’ll understand.”
In a Truth Social post, Trump repeated his justification, arguing that aggressive deportations were stripping critical industries of essential, long-tenured labor: “Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace.”
The plan, still being written, would place the burden of screening for violent criminals on farmers and hospitality employers, according to Trump — a dramatic rethinking of the federal government’s traditional immigration enforcement role.
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I think we can all agree that our president doesn’t include any of his family members including his current wife and ALL of his anchor babies.
TACO – Trump Always Chickens Out.
But this is a feature, not a a bug. He takes a strong position without thinking in through, implements it, and if it doesn’t work he changes his position to something that works. The last thing we want is a leader who stubbornly follows discredited policy initiatives (such as Biden’s decision to stick with “open borders” that included criminals and terrorists, rather than limited to “masses yearning to breathe free”).
Most illegal aliens are NOT criminals or gangsters. They are hard working (legally, thanks to Biden), tax paying, heads of families, and fill a critical need for the American economy (which has a labor shortage due to the baby bus that began 50 years ago, and is becoming critical due to the boomers reaching retirement age with not enough young people to replace them). The fact that it is politically unpopular to deport gainfully employed, law abiding migrants is also a factor (and doing so undermines the shift in the Hispanic voters that helped save the country from a President Harris). Also it makes no sense to oppose anti-American socialist/communist governments (such as Cuba), while deporting refugees from those countries who seek asylum.
They came legally
The hypocrite in chief
The Felon shows his word is worthless
It’s all about letting the boss man profit
akuperma:
TACO? Didn’t I read something about him ordering the dropping of bunker buster bombs in Iran?