I soundly beat the WSJ to this story but here are some more details.
Trump says businesses report losing ‘very good, long time workers.’ How about changing policy?
Please consider Mass Deportation . . . Except at Hotels?
How far does President Trump envision his mass deportation project going? As if to heighten the ambiguity, on Thursday morning he tapped out this sentence on Truth Social: “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.”
Then Mr. Trump turned the focus back where the White House wants it, which is gang members and threats to public safety. “We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA,” he said. “Changes are coming!” How cryptic. The electorate is with Mr. Trump on catching and deporting illegal immigrants who have committed crimes. Yet much more than that is happening, and more than farmers and hoteliers are concerned.
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.
Trump speaks of of both sides of his mouth at the same time.
In this case, both sides are saying idiotic things.
It appears Miller is back influencing Trump but Trump cannot hide his “Truth”
Truth Social: 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. In many cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!
For discussion, please see TACO Trump Backs Down on Farm and Hotel Worker Deportations
Trump is suddenly worried about “impossible to replace hotel workers”.
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On June 10, I commented MAGA Cheers the Gestapo Tactics that Sparked the LA Riots
I do not use the word Gestapo lightly. Let’s discuss the charge.
June 11, 2025: Who Waved Mexican Flags at the LA Immigration Protests?
The answer is US Citizens. I have names.
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A Deal for Dreamers
We need a Congressional deal that guarantees the rights of dreamers who have been in the US for a long time and are productive members of the US.
It is economically stupid and morally unjust to not work out such a deal. And on three occasions, Trump made supportive statements.
I have been working on an analysis of the costs and benefits of deport them all I will post that later this weekend or Monday.
So open season on restaurants but not the Four Seasons restaurants?
this is so dumb. it will all end. you can’t tell the U.S. you will have mass deportations and then exclude hotels and agriculture and go after everything else.
Because you have all kinds of other businesses even in the reddest of red towns, and they’re going to be pissed about some businesses not being targeted while their businesses are targeted.
if Trump excludes “red” businesses and heavily targets blue ones and it works, realize what this will look like at the end: red states will have illegals while blue states won’t. As is true with most things Trump and MAGA its completely idiotic and will never work.
Well, they were supposed to be deporting criminals. It would be good to start there.
Based on the article, we are supposed to believe that there was no reason for ICE to detain 5 of the 6 workers, and there may or may not have been a reason to detain 1 of the workers. What are the facts? ICE work is by definition messy, but they should have a reason for taking the actions that they do.
A strange feedback loop (true and symbolic story):
I prey to God that they stop mowing the grass every day on my street. The noise is unbearable – they could at least coordinate. In adjacent streets they’re smarter, they have small gardens instead of stupid grass (different mix of people).
Anyway, the more they cut the grass, the more the village reduces the mandatory height, and the more it needs cutting. Get it?
Very interesting Youtube video about a guy who tried to manufacture something in the US. His issues didn’t even get to hiring assembly line people, they all had to do with the skills, or lack thereof, in the supply chain in the US. Tool and die makers, injection molding, small sections of welded chain mail (you’ll have to watch to see what this was for,) and the common bolt all proved difficult to find or source in the U.S.
This doesn’t really have to do with immigrant labor displacing citizen workers but, to stay on topic here, does have to do with the challenges associated with bringing those factories back on-shore to provide good jobs for people in this country.
https://youtu.be/3ZTGwcHQfLY?si=Frqf3y5qXGJ9I_kn
I also recommend this guy, Inside China Business, on Youtube. No affiliation but he lives and works there and has a lot if insights into what’s happening. Among other topics (like China’s dominance of the EV market worldwide, sans U.S.,) he also reports on Chinese manufacturing. They are leaps and bounds ahead of most manufacturing in the U.S.
https://www.youtube.com/@Inside_China_Business
That’s an absolutely great video and it covers exactly what I’ve been saying about demographics. The whole video was dependent on the two old guys and one of them has passed away. Literally what I’ve been saying here for years.
Saw it.
I posted the following video a while ago, and probably nobody watched it. It gives a wider historical context how it happened, and what to expect from reshoring if it ever happens. Unfortunately, it’s too long for most USians.
Dan Collins: Tariffs and the Future of US Manufacturing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ngccqS9ydA
I have to mention that this video detailed the manufacturing of a scrubber, a relatively simple thing. There are far more complicated manufacturing processes.
I am not worried. If the US will pursue reshoring a la Donald, it will have to use Chinese IP, i.e. steal back from China.
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I mentioned this yesterday and people still seem to think we will need millions of undocumented workers. We won’t, you’ll be lucky if you still have a job let alone millions of others from foreign countries. Can’t you see that is why we have for the first time in decades a concerted effort to return people to their homeland with their own culture and language.
Maybe people don’t know about this, so I’ll post some statistics:
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The U.S. government is preparing for a future in which millions of jobs — especially in manual, service, and routine clerical roles — will be replaced or radically transformed by artificial intelligence. As the demand for low-skill labor shrinks, the economic incentive to tolerate or regularize large undocumented populations diminishes. This helps explain the political shift toward mass deportations, particularly when paired with public concern over automation, wage stagnation, and cultural disruption.
Goldman Sachs (2023): Predicted that 300 million jobs worldwide could be affected by generative AI, with two-thirds of U.S. occupations exposed to automation.
PwC CEO Survey (2024): 25% of CEOs said they expected to cut staff by at least 5% because of AI within the year.
McKinsey Global Institute: By 2030, up to 45 million U.S. workers may need to change occupations. Most at risk: retail, food service, transportation, cleaning, and clerical roles.
These are the same sectors that undocumented immigrants disproportionately fill.
In just the first half of 2025, over 77,000 workers were laid off in the tech sector alone due to AI integration.
Major companies such as Klarna, IBM, Microsoft, and Walmart have cited AI directly as the cause of workforce reductions.
2024–2025 saw a resurgence in rhetoric about mass deportations, including Trump’s proposal to remove millions of undocumented immigrants using military support and AI-based tracking systems (including Palantir and facial recognition tools).
Past Justification: Undocumented labor filled jobs Americans ‘wouldn’t do.’
Emerging Reality: Those same jobs are being automated (e.g., in agriculture, logistics, fast food, and janitorial services).
Policy Consequence: Mass deportation is now economically viable because fewer sectors depend on immigrant labor to function.
Many of the surveillance systems developed to track undocumented immigrants (e.g., by Palantir) are AI-powered. In other words, the very technology eliminating labor demand is also powering the systems used to remove the surplus population — a feedback loop of automation and exclusion.
And if all of that comes to fruition then social security and medicare will collapse because AI and robots don’t pay FICA. It will collapse right when we’re at “peak boomer” with 60 to 70 million relying on those funds.
But I think those estimates are way overboard, there isn’t enough copper right now to power all the energy needs AI requires much less all the robots. I’d like to see AI generate it’s own copper and electricity.
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-copper-world-require-price.html
The world can mine copper to fuel the green energy transition, or it can mine copper to build the infrastructure of developing countries—but it will be extraordinarily difficult to do both, according to a University of Michigan study.
The research, co-led by Adam Simon, U‑M professor of Earth and environmental sciences, found that the copper needed even just to sustain typical economic and population growth far exceeds the amount of copper currently mined.
The researchers, who have published their results in SEG Discovery, also suggest that copper must more than double in price to motivate companies to develop new mines.
With the right tweaks, these programs aren’t going to collapse anytime soon. The GOP goal of removing all of the illegals & able-bodied Americans off Medicare along will significantly slow the growth of the program. And then there’s eliminating all sorts of abuse & waste that have nothing to do with either of these two cohorts.
The major shift Ann is talking about goes far beyond SS & Medicare. I thin we all agree that it’s one of the biggest societal issues looming & to play out over the next 30 years.
Ann does a very good job of explaining the changes coming.
I agree. She’s a breath of fresh air around here.
Whatever roadblocks there are, I doubt they will be able to stop the accelerated speed of AI and robotics. We are in a race with China, whoever has the most advanced AI will be the military superpower so that alone will propel its growth. No one wants to be subordinate to China.
According to OpenAI’s own analysis in 2018, the computational power used in AI training grew by a factor of 300,000× in just six years (2012–2018), doubling approximately every 3.4 months. Doubling every 3.4 months vs. Moore’s every 18–24 months.
If there are people smart enough to develop AI, they will be smart enough to develop a way to power it, may even be a completely new technology using something other than copper. This is an interesting article on how some corporations are reluctant to change to a better technology when they have invested heavily in an old technology. But eventually that will change, it has to. The AI race is like the Manhattan Project during WW2.
When A Thousand Times Faster Threatens Your Job – A 10% improvement is incremental. A thousand times faster is disruptive
https://fractalcomputing.substack.com/p/when-a-thousand-times-faster-threatens
When it comes to Social Security and Medicare, we’re still operating within the current paradigm, but that model is no longer sustainable. The global economic framework will have to evolve, AI will probably end up contributing to that solution as well. I know people are concerned about all of this, for some reason I’m not, I worry more about humans and their capacity to destroy things more than I worry about AI.
Did the study mention aluminum? It works as well as copper and is extensively used to transmit electricity and is so plentiful that we make beer cans out of it.
Yes, this is what it said about aluminum:
New mining projects are already underway, recycling tech is improving, and AI itself is helping optimize resource use. Plus, breakthroughs in alternatives (like aluminum wiring or fiber-based transmission in some areas) are being explored.
Doug, I just realized you were asking MPO45v2 the question, I thought it was directed at me so I answered from the information I had.
Outstanding, Ann! Just keep it coming. I’ve said for the past 2-3 years that millions of illegals are pouring into the US at the exact wrong time for all of the reasons you list above. Everything you point out is backed up by smart people who understand the big picture.
And one of the reasons the GOP are trying to kick millions of able-bodied workers off Medicaid is to get them & employers ready for returning them to work. And even then, there are tens of millions of underemployed people that could transition into better paying jobs throughout the construction industry, for example.
It’s not going to happen overnight, but it has to happen, especially in light of the reasons you so CLEARLY outline above.
BRAVO! It all make sense & can’t easily be argued against.
Trump Quote At Fort Bragg: “Within the span of a few decades, Los Angeles has gone from being one of the cleanest, safest, and most beautiful cities on Earth, to being a trash heap with entire neighborhoods under the control of transnational gangs and criminal networks. It’s horrible what’s happened so quickly. As the entire world can now see, uncontrolled migration leads to chaos, dysfunction, and disorder. Very simply, we will liberate Los Angeles and make it free, clean, and safe again.”
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Thanks Ben. I wonder if he will really be able to return Los Angeles to what it used to be.
Although I have to say, if I were in a one of the countries that he’s deporting people to I would want to come here as well. I want everyone to live in a prosperous, safe country.
My hope it that he will also follow through on his plans to confront and eliminate the cartels in Mexico with the military so people will have a place that they want to return home to. They have to ignore whatever the Mexican president says, she’s probably terrified of the cartels along with the officials in the government who can’t express their true feelings.
Plata o plomo (silver or lead) is a familiar phrase in those countries. You have to wonder how many people may not even want to be in a cartel but are forced to through fear or intimidation.
We need a Nayib Bukele in every country with a cartel problem. I’ll post some information for people who may not know who he is.
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Since June 2019, President Nayib Bukele has overseen a sweeping transformation in El Salvador—with dramatic drops in violence, bold economic experimentation, and strengthened public institutions, though often through controversial measures. Under Bukele’s “Territorial Control Plan” and the declaration of a state of emergency in March 2022, his administration has arrested over 85,000 suspected gang members, contributing to a historic decline in homicide rates—from around 38 per 100,000 in 2019 to just 1.9 in 2024, making El Salvador one of the safest countries in the Americas. The government also built CECOT, one of the world’s largest maximum-security prisons, to isolate gang leadership. Bukele’s popularity soared, winning re-election in 2024 with about 85% of the vote.
Bureaucratic and legal positions would be excellent candidates for AI. Imagine how these areas would benefit from de-politicization. A great many insurance and finance jobs could be eliminated as well. Manual jobs, not so much.
Trump has hotels. He HAS to let them stay. Duh.
But, but, but Trump would never break the law right? He would not employ illegal immigrants?
No analysis is really needed. The “system” we have exists because that’s what the market dictates is needed to provide all the goods and services at the price people are willing to pay. China+illegal immigrants = quality of life for Americans. Change the equation and quality of life will be greatly impacted for the worse not better. The cracks are starting to show across the board which is why we have all these news stories and Trump changing his tune already.
Everyone else posting comments here to the contrary is a fool that doesn’t understand how the world works. But opinions don’t matter, market needs do which is why after the Trump circus “round up” show ends we’ll be right back to the status quo.
This whole ICE show is one big waste of money for “gladiator” circus for MAGA clowns.
At least your comment was comprehended by one MAGA clown (your downvoter)
FAFO – hotel stays will go way up in price. Food, same, and some of the items you count on finding in the store will probably simply disappear. All for the hatred of brown people and servicing Trump’s ego. If someone is here illegally, then they get deported… then here comes the “unless they do something that benefits me” in which case 90% of them should really stay, immigration is a large part of what made America great in the first place.
I told this story before and I will tell it again. Every year parts of my lawn seems to die off and the area gets replaced by weeds, flowers, and even tree sprouts, etc. I asked my landscaper what I could do about it and he said something to the effect, “if you don’t nurture the lawn you want, it will die off and be replaced by something else, that’s nature’s way.”
Nice parable. Here’s my interpretation: at some point in the past most jobs in the U.S. were done by citizens. Mexican agricultural workers go way back, at least in the border states, but otherwise mostly US workers in construction, factory work, meat packing, hospitality and, more recently, IT. But, in a quest for lower costs, the Capitalist owners of all this put multiple factors in play. Moving factories, first from the upper midwest to the south and then to Mexico and then to China. For what was left, importing more inexpensive labor from elsewhere. From down south or, in the case of IT, from India. And for whatever else was left, automating as much as possible.
Where cheap labor was imported it tended to cut off the talent pipeline for younger US workers, in particular in construction and IT. Where factories were moved off shore the whole supply chain followed. All the subcontractors, the tool and die makers, injection molding, welding and fabricating shops, machine shops making bolts and screws, etc., and with those went the apprentice job pipeline.
So, all that was the garden and the above forces created the dead spots which haven’t been replanted by anything else. (“Knowledge workers” who, to the extent they exist and are not mythical unicorns,) are now succumbing to AI.
For jobs like hospitality and agriculture and whatever you’d call the meatpacking sorts of jobs, that used to be done by citizens at the bottom of the economic ladder but are now done by recent immigrants, how do you attract citizens back to those.
So the question to ask is, who is it that wanted the lawn this way? The Capitalists and their lackeys in Congress like the low wage current lawn just fine I think.
The rest of us like low prices every day too, can’t deny that. How would we get back to the lawn we used to have? Pay people enough to attract them back to the hard jobs. But that would cause inflation as the higher wages were baked into the cost of goods sold. How do we prevent an inflationary spiral? There’s a federal govt deficit and debt angle here.
Spot on.
The quality of life has increased for a narrow segment of the population while most either stagnated or regressed. The statistics are there for everyone to see so the Americans you are talking about by no measure represent the majority. It is not sustainable.
Practically everyone walks around with a cell phone that can summon a car, a grocer, a handy man, a broker, a banker or just about anything else you need. I’d say most people’s quality of life is too good and they just don’t have the money to pay for it all, which is a different thing entirely.
Hilton is charging 75% more for rooms than they did before the pandemic. Are they paying their workers 75% more? Why are they so dependent on immigrant labor? Why does “nobody want to work”? Could it be the low level wages they’re offering?
instead of downvoting, how about offering a rebuttal?
The response to your comment by the idiot downvoter is amusing.
Ignore it.
The guy who disputed that hotel rates have not gone up 75% since the pandemic? Have you stayed at an Airbnb or hotel lately to see how expensive they are nowadays?
How about fast food? “TheStreet reported that Medium French Fries went from $1.79 in 2019 to $4.19 in 2024, a 134.1 percent increase. A McChicken went from $1.29 to $3.89, a 201.6 percent hike.
The price of the beloved Big Mac increased 87.7 percent, from $3.99 to $7.49. An order of 10 McNuggets rose by 68.8 percent, from $4.49 to $7.58. Of the five popular products examined, cheeseburgers saw the largest price increase—going from $1 to $3.15, a 215 percent spike.”
How many people retired and died since 2020? There are 4k to 5k boomers that die each day. There are 11k that are retiring each day. What don’t most of the people here not understand about a demographic death spiral? It’s simple math, less people are working or can work and there are not enough young people to replace them (at least without immigration).
You want hard data, look at the civilian labor participation rate. Draw a line from the peak in 2000 to where we are today. Tell me what will turn this around? Because if nothing turns it around labor will naturally deplete itself through attrition.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART/
Have more kids.
The teenage unemployment rate has been steadily increasing over the last 2 years. You can see this yourself at BLS which has the statistics. Currently about 14%
Here’s a rare MSM article about the current poor job market for recent college graduates and young people: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/entry-level-employee-confidence-is-at-an-all-time-low-says-glassdoor.html
Young replacement workers have to start at the bottom so the workers already in the chain can move to replace the Boomers. Yet the entry level job market seems to be flooded with older workers who out-compete the younger ones.
There are data points that seem to conflict with your argument that we don’t have enough workers to replace the Boomers.
Well it’s not just demographics. Trump’s tariff policies haven’t helped the job situation, companies have paralysis about the uncertainty moving forward. The JOLTS report shows 7.4 million jobs open though and unemployment is under 5% for now.
https://www.bls.gov/jlt/
There are short term trends (possible recession coming) with lots of unemployment and long term trends (labor depletion) with lots of job opportunities but that won’t hit hard till 2030.
Robots, AI and automation are a wild card but one would expect if robots were the solution they would have arrived long before we needed so many immigrants.
There is no rebuttal needed when you throw around garbage statistics that don’t mean anything. Their room rates in 2012 were around $130 and now around $165 if you look at Statista. That’s not even +30% since 7-8 years before the pandemic. So post your proof of your claimed 75% increase, you never said a timeframe, is that over 40 years? 40 years ago was “before the pandemic” so let’s see your work, maestro, help me learn your ways
I looked at the rates of the Hilton I stayed at multiple times in Boston over the last 10 years. Rates are up 75% compared to before 2020.
So go to a different hotel, Jesus who cares about the Hilton, it’s not some kind of economic touchstone
While we are tying ourselves into knots China and the world move on
…literally all African countries (well, with the exception of tiny Eswatini), just attended a summit in Changsha, Hunan province, and issued a sweeping manifesto declaring their intent to jointly resist American “unilateralism and protectionism,” and pledging to “implement” China’s “Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative and Global Civilization Initiative.”….
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbzhd/202506/t20250611_11645736.html
This is added to the agreement that the ASEAN/China/Middle East agreement that was made a week after Trump made his round of those same Middle East counties
Incalculable damage is being done to America right now, and we’re squabbling over who is washing the dishes tonight
It absolutely makes sense to deport violent criminals before trying to remove farm and hotel workers. When the economy really starts to falter, THEN remove farm and hotel workers here illegally so US citizens can have jobs.
. When the economy really starts to falter, THEN remove farm and hotel workers here illegally so US citizens can have jobs.
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sounds like USSR.
there was entity called Gosplan (aka government planning ministry in USSR) where it planed everything: how much food to make, how many trousers to manufacture, etc
that is why USSR was ahead in space/ rocket science, but could not make decent shoes, or enough of chicken to eat for ppl.
USSR, you did not live in I ! I DID!!
You are a Russian Libertarian?
t absolutely makes sense to deport violent criminals before trying to remove farm and hotel workers.
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what about if violent criminal currently works as farmer, picking berries?
and who decides which industry and illegal workers is more important than other? so illegals are safe for now in such! 80 years old Trump, personally?
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buddy , you really did not think this thing other!! try harder!
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Only when it is convenient? Ridiculous.
They simply don’t care what we think about their inconsistent thinking. Means justify the ends.
We get it, it’s okay for them to stay in violation of law and order so long as they are doing something convenient for us. By that measure they should almost all stay here for good.
Who are you talking to? Nobody in government is listening. They’re morons right now and just randomly taking whoever they can to get their numbers up so the head moron stays happy with them
Just legalize everyone without a serious criminal record. Then come up with some kind of semi-logical way to allow a lot more legal immigration going forward, and tightly control the border.
Done.
But neither party benefits politically from actually solving the problem the way Americans say they want it solved, so we probably won’t do it.
I agree. Bush Jr. had this idea many years ago but nothing happened. Don’t make them citizens but give them green cards so they are paying taxes and working legally. Any business that hires illegals after that suffer severe fines. Easier to go after businesses than track down all the illegals.
Then you can expect a flood over the border because they know if they come eventually they will be legalized as long as they vote a certain way. Wages for workers would crash down to Third-world levels. Some people would love that because they feel they would benefit from the cheap labor while they and theirs would be protected from the consequences. Brazil would be the model and that is just fine for some people either through self-interest, philosophy or more generally both since the first most often determines the second. It’s a choice but only an inevitability if we let it happen.
I guess you missed the “control the border” part I posted.
Let’s make sure that we track how much MONEY that the Lobbyists are pouring in to INFLUENCE outcomes related to everything. MISH you never cover that subject here and LOBBYING IS HOW THINGS are greased.
When are you going to post something about Trump celebrating the 250th anniversary of the US Army, comparing & contrasting that to the thousands of Anti-American No Kings rallies planed across the country?
It would be nice for you to connect the dots, right? These ICE operations in LA were planned by the Trump administration to give rise to all of these riots in LA. Trump didn’t tell them to do it, but he gave them the opportunity. And the radical left has been planning to dramatically increase chaotic / destructive protests, culminating with the No Kings rallies, many of which are going to turn violent.
All of this has been planned since the moment the parade was announced and tacitly approve by or green lit by radical elements within our federal, state & local governments.
The good news is that this is going to be a massive boom for Trump & his deportation plans. America is FINALLY going to see what these millions of illegals who have poured into our nation are capable of, especially the criminal element creating chaos & destruction.
Get out your popcorn everyone, and make sure you’re ammo’d up.
Today is the day that our descent into hell starts because we’ve allowed a massive criminal / anti-American group of illegals to pour into our country who don’t want to assimilate into America. Rather, they seek the downfall of this great nation.
If it gets bad enough in the coming months, get your money out of the markets, because China just might be opportunistic & invade Taiwan, as we’re distracted at home, Ukraine & the ME.
There is one idiot so far who has down-voted you. NO ONE talks about this NOT BEING DIVIDED, UNI-Party style.
America is massively divided, & illegal immigration is right at the very top.
There’s no way around it. It will be interesting to see how this weekend turns out.
I’m certainly not rooting for chaos & destruction, but I’m not going to be surprised by what is likely to happen, IMHO.
“Anti-American No Kings rallies planed across the country?”
So to be pro American you need to be pro king now? You’ve gone completely nuts.
You can rant and rave all you want, nothing will be done about illegal immigration beyond the current token circus show. TACO is already back peddling as everyone expected. Only 1316 days left in his administration and we’ll be back to the status quo.
Democrats are not very sharp at marketing these last few years. Their consultants are not as good as they once were probably because of the generation change.
First, the president of the US is not a King. He’s an elected official.
The backlash to what he is doing was predictable & expected.
He’s done absolutely nothing to be equated to a “King”.
Rather, he’s simply taking actions against an enormous globalist machine that’s been gaining & consolidating power in the USA over the last 30 years, and a big part of that has been through illegal immigration.
Keep the countdown going. I’m looking forward to Trump getting way more done that you expect. In fact, he already has.
No ranting here. Just calling it like I see it.
250 years of keeping us free from invasion and our institutions intact are great accomplishments. We had parades like this when I was young. They were great.
Yes, they are. And if ever a president rises up & tries to do things that truly break the constitution, I feel confident the military will step in.
Trump is far from perfect & is subject to making a lot of boastful exaggerations, but he appears to love this country & has great respect for the men & women who serve in the military, police & first responders.
Again, he campaigned to do exactly what he’s doing, and he’s not breaking the law. He’s implementing the mandate that he was elected to do. And he’s doing his best to push back against activist judges here and there while complying with higher courts’ rulings.
With at least 25M illegals running around the US & at least an equal number of radical leftists loon bats, nobody should be surprised about what’s going on in LA & sanctuary cities around the country.
Hopefully, SCOTUS will rule in our favor regarding these unconstitutional, nationwide injunctions, and then the next big step is to show the federal government is allowed to defund cities who maintain sanctuary laws in defiance of federal immigration law. That’s when we finally gain the upper hand.
Ill say it again. Deportation has not worked or we would not have an issue at this time.
Hefty fines for businesses that hire illegals combined with a program that allows businesses to hire approved foreigners with clear rules attached.
Businesses use employment services in other nations to find applicants. . Interview over zoom. Report to border patrol. At entry receive id similar to real id/ finger print etc. / clear set of rules and consequences for departure and or naturalization.
You can’t say deportation hasn’t worked. Deporting some people undoubtedly causes others to not even try to go north. In other words, it would be even worse if no one had ever been deported. Business owners should be prosecuted for breaking the law. Maybe new arrivals should be “chipped”.
Bingo.
strong border control, changing the stupid asylum laws would work. if the influx stops, the problem resolves itself in a few years.
and yes, going after employers would work.
Deport criminals, naturalize workers, control borders.
Ah yes, and no handouts.
Naturalize workers
Um, no! That’s amnesty. There should be NO amnesty. Anyone who came into the US illegally (specifically those who made it past CBP) should be forced to leave the US without exception. Everyone else should be forced to come out of the shadows, register & potentially be subject to immediate deportation. If you don’t register, you can’t come back if you’re deported.
This will establish everything on LEGAL immigration. Workers in certain industries should be given preference in terms of how quickly than can return to work. All of this would be coordinated by state governments to help ensure disruptions to work are minimized.
But, there’s NO amnesty. Even the Dreamers or those like them still have to go through some sort of process that will take years for them to become naturalized citizens. We don’t reward people for breaking the law, even for those brough here as minors by putting them in front of the line.
That’s crazy!
It’s funny, you act like there’s a choice. I guess there is, if you want a depression…but really, there’s not. We’re too old as a society (and getting older) to say no to people who want to work. This decision was made 20-30 years ago by all the Gen Xers who decided not to have kids.
Yes, Walt, there is a choice. There’s always a choice. I’m GenX, and I have two great, productive kids. So does my wife, so I’m not sure what your point is.
There are millions of able-bodied Americans who can do all sorts of work. Construction is the perfect example, but builders are allowed to show preference towards illegals.
Again, none of this is going to be easy. I will squarely put blame on Trump for rushing down the path of deportations without prepping America / Congress for what should be the grand plan that will take longer than his 4 years in office to achieve.
However, we are in the early stages & for now, the vast majority of deportations are squarely focused on illegals who either are criminals or are past their deportation hearings.
Yes, there is a very big picture that has to be solved through law. Time will tell whether or not that comes to pass, but I won’t be surprised if Trump waits until after the 2026 elections to try to take the really big step.
Good on you. I have 3 kids. Doesn’t matter, as a society we are not reproducing ourselves, so it’s gonna either be robots or immigrants, or depression.
There is something odd about this site’s voting system. Several times when I upvote someone’s comment, simultaneously a downvote is added. It’s happened too many times for it to be a coincidence. Does Mike know this is happening. Is it a flaw in the system or is it by design? I doubt someone would want certain comment’s upvotes to be immediately offset with a downvote, so there must be some other explanation.
I believe it’s just simultaneous voting. I have up-voted something only to see the count rise by 3. So it’s not just down votes
It appears he does with his reply below. Personally, I don’t worry too much about up or down votes. I know a lot of people don’t like my views, but I enjoy sharing them.
I know Mike loves this country, and I appreciate the time & effort he puts into reporting on a wide range of issues. While we don’t always agree, I respect the fact that he’s well learned & has some good ideas.
I’m hopeful that Trump’s final term is more productive economically & socially for the USA than he might think it’s going to be.
Incompetent government can’t do that, but nice thought experiment!
Must be worried about the immigrants in the kitchen at MAL spitting on his burgers
You KNOW there’s a McDonalds employee that walks around with a patty clenched betwixt his buttocks, marinating in anticipation of the order from that special customer.
If I were that hated, I’d grow my own food and never let it out of my sight.
Some animals are more equal than others.