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.
Trump doesn’t want anything except money and power. Saying he wants to deport immigrants gets him support from xenophobes and bigots.
He doesn’t want them gone, and neither do any other oligarch.
They want them in a grey legal area, so they can be exploited more efficiently, is all.
Keep illegal immigrants working in farm work. Now, they have now labor protections, and BOOM! MOAR PROFITS!
That’s all.
I could see them putting immigrants in camps and then saying “oh their home country won’t take them back. We’ll just keep them in camp. Oh and they’ll have to work obv. Can’t be slackers in america.”
Coincidentally an oligarch will own the camp and the work output.
Schindlers list style,
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.
Oh they don’t really want them gone, just for them to lose their legal status so they can be underpaid, and won’t dare to report any workplace violations under the threat of deportation.
In fact, that’s already happening, they just want to convert more Americans’ status to “illegal immigrant”
