Summary
Donald Trump, who has pledged to crack down on immigration, continues to hire foreign guest workers for his businesses at record levels.
In 2024, Trump’s companies, including Mar-a-Lago, his golf courses, and a Virginia winery, hired 209 foreign workers, nearly double the number from a decade ago.
Most were employed under H-2B visas, meant for seasonal jobs when American workers are unavailable.
Critics argue these programs undermine U.S. workers’ bargaining power, while Trump’s allies, like Project 2025, advocate for restricting such visas. Trump has distanced himself from these proposals while continuing to utilize the program.
Talks of deportation are, mostly, dog whistles. He did the same thing during his first term with H2B labor
And also to foster an economy of undocumented workers to drive down labor costs.
They don’t want immigrants gone, they want them underpaid and unregulated.
Slaves, they want slaves.
Which includes undocumented and citizens
Trump doesn’t want anything except money and power. Saying he wants to deport immigrants gets him support from xenophobes and bigots.
Makes sense. Otherwise with whom will he replace Melania?
He’s lying. Everything he says is a lie.
Trump and those up top don’t want to deport all the immigrants, they just want a captive labor force too afraid of deportation to rock the boat.
There’s 7 comments so far saying Trump doesn’t actually want them gone. C’mon guys, he wants immigrants gone. It’s pure racism, he wants them gone and he wants a white Christian America. The only question is how far he gets before he croaks.
*I think I know what’s going on, everyone here is in the bargaining stage of the 5 stages of grief.
He doesn’t care either way. All he’s really doing is rallying a community of people in his support who hate brown people.
As long as there is a group of people willing to support him he will bend in any direction to get them. It turns out getting support from racists is the easiest group to manipulate.
He’s using this for momentum. That’s how he got elected.
…That doesn’t mean he’s not going to deport as many as he can. He can deport all illegal immigrants and there will still be plenty of POC to scapegoat. Then it’s on the next thing: Segregation. He likely won’t live long enough to do it, but the GOP will go for it.
And I think he does care (not that I support what he cares about), he is racist through and through.
That doesn’t mean he’s not going to deport as many as he can
Maybe he will maybe he won’t.
It’s already illegal to be an illegal immigrant. You already get deported if you get caught.
I can’t possibly see what else he can do about it other than kick in random doors. I don’t see that happening.
What I’m reading is they don’t automatically deport you if you’re an illegal immigrant, as of now. Maybe hearings, DACA, all the jazz about “he has dependent family here”. They have addresses of DACA people, they know where a lot of illegal immigrants live.
Honestly sounds like fear mongering to me. They can’t pull this shit off even if they wanted to
Geezus. He’s going to do what he said he’s going to do. What is going on with Lemmy in this thread.
He can try. It won’t work. It’s just basic logic.
Do you believe everything that comes out of that idiots mouth?
How’d that wall turn out?
Holy fuck he looks ancient.
He doesn’t care about immigrants.
Not one way, not the other.
He just needs a scapegoat to blame all the problems on, because he can’t afford for his base- who absolutely do hate immigrants- to realize he, and people like him, are in fact the source of most their problems.
I want less work visas for foreign workers. The tech industry isn’t competitive for Americans because Indians will do the job cheaper for a visa. It’s giving companies too much power over employees
