Trump Now Says Farmers May Continue Employing Migrants Under a System Where They Assume 'Responsibility' For Them
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President Donald Trump said on Friday that farmers may be able to continue employing migrants without fear of raids

Donald Trump said on Friday that farmers may be able to keep employing undocumented migrant workers without fearing enforcement raids under a system in which they would take “responsibility” for them.

Undocumented immigrants make up 4.6% of the U.S. workforce— more than 7 million people. Many of them work in agriculture, hospitality and construction, The Guardian reports.

Shay Myers, who runs Parma, one of the country’s largest onion farms, warned that “we will not feed our people without these workers,” considering that the Department of Agriculture estimates that over 40% of industry workers are undocumented.

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    President Donald Trump said on Friday that farmers may be able to keep employing undocumented migrant workers without fearing enforcement raids under a system in which they would take “responsibility” for them.

    It was not immediately clear how the system would work, and is the latest of several changes of tune regarding the matter.

    IE, Trump has concepts of a plan.

    Not anywhere near as concrete as the headline suggests.

    Trump suggested last week that migrants working in industries like farming would be exempted from enforcement raids given the disproportionate impact that enforcement operations could have in the economy and the industry.

    After the statement, ICE officials reportedly told staff in an internal email to largely lay off raids and arrests in the agricultural, hotel and restaurant industries. However, the pause did not last long. By Sunday, Trump had publicly reversed his previously proposed policy entirely, ordering agents via a Truth Social post to deliver what he called the “single largest Mass Deportation Program in History”— focusing particularly on America’s largest cities, almost all being run by Democrats.

    In other words, Trump himself has mutually inconsistent, diametrically opposed ‘policy’ goals, and is too demented/senile, fundamentally stupid, and tempermental, to actually formulate a coherent ‘policy’.

    This is all contradictory nonsense, and Trump’s subordinates are basically just interpreting whatever vague nonsense Trump is saying in whatever way they want.

    It is the same as his tariff bullshit.

    Tariffs are good because they’ll bring in revenue and balance the defecit!

    Oh wait, they’re crashing the economy? Hah, idiot, that was a negotiating tactic, now we’ll negotiate!

    Oh wait, negotiations failed? Hah, idiot, that was a bluff, what will actually happen is tariffs will make domestic manufacturing boom!

    Wait what? Domestic manufacturing relies on either final assembly of imported goods, or just rebadging/relabeling and reselling imported goods… or actually paying for and building new factories first?

    Uh, uh, uh, uh… Bomb Iran!

    …

    All Trump knows how to do is scam and grift people by saying what he thinks they want to hear, and also self-aggrandizing.

    Now he is absurdly out of his depth, and is floundering and flipflopping like a fish out of water.

    The reality is that federal agents of the regime will do whatever the fuck they want, justify it however the fuck they want, and threaten to arrest or shoot whoever the fuck they want.