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.

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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.

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make it 8. trump doesn’t give a rat’s ass about anything but trump. everything he sharts out of his face anus is for the singular purpose of rallying his rabid cult followers to worship him. that’s it. he doesn’t give a fuck about “christian america.” or 100% white america. he wants cheap explloitable labor, which is what all of this 3 ring “deportation” shitshow is all about

in case it’s not clear, he’s not deporting 11 million people. don’t be gullible

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It’s the ‘do as I say, not as I do’. He’s super racist, everyone knows this.

As for the exact number, it depends on the courts blocking things, the basic logistics of getting enough ICE officers (this is where the court matters if they allow or block use of the military), and the legal hearing people get (also where the courts matter, I bet that Trump wants to bypass that). He will go as far as he can. Y’all need to wake up.

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Nobody is saying they’re not going to deport a lot of people or that Donald Trump and the GOP are not racist.

They’re saying deportation isn’t the point, which it clearly isn’t. They want cheap, exploitable labor. Otherwise, they’d be attacking businesses who hire undocumented immigrants since that’s the whole reason people come here.

They don’t want to alienate businesses: those people are their donors. They want to drive the cost of labor down for their donors by exploiting the reactionary hatred of their base.

This has been the case for decades; Trump is being even more explicit, stupid, and cruel than his party had traditionally been, but he is very much in that same tradition.

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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.

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…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.

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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.

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