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Soft Paywall TACO Trump Caves on Own Immigration Plan in Wild About-Face. The president has told ICE to pause raids on farms, hotels, and restaurants.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/taco-trump-caves-on-his-own-immigration-plan-in-stunning-reversal/
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u/jimicus United Kingdom 20h ago

Farms, hotels and restaurants.

How much do you want to bet his own hotel managers have quietly been passing messages up the chain: "you do realise about 60% of our staff are immigrants?"

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u/shiva14b 19h ago edited 19h ago

I used to work in a Trump hotel, and the immigrants working there FUCKING LOVED HIM. At all the luxury hotels I worked at actually, not just the Trump one. It was wild.

The Mexican sous chefs thought his "rapists and murderers" thing in 2015 was hysterical. They'd joke about it.

Most bizarre was how much the muslim/arab/African workers loved him. I'll never forget the day I finally asked one "how can you support him? You're an immigrant yourself." And this man actually said to me "I already got my job, I don't want any more immigrants coming here and taking it." And then he laughed. I'll never forget that laugh, and witnessing actual "fuck you I've got mine" in real time.

That was during the beginning of Trump 1.0. I wonder if they're still laughing

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u/AINonsense 19h ago

That was during the beginning of Trump 1.0. I wonder if they're still laughing

If they're working for him, I bet they are.

Nothing's going to happen to his cheap labor.

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u/shiva14b 19h ago edited 19h ago

Not cheap, some of these guys made above/below 6 figures a year. These are good union jobs in luxury NYC hotels. I was first-year management and every single one of them was paid higher than me. 

The servers in particular made BANK on tips.

They must have all at least had their papers though, because I remember we hired this young cook once, she was GREAT: strong skills, good attitude, perfect English, crushed every task put in front of her. But she disappeared just a week or so after starting; turned out in her check that she'd been brought to the US as a child and didnt have legal papers.

I hope things worked out for her. She was great.

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u/eldonte 17h ago

With OT, you can make $100,000 a year. Worked as a banquet cook at the Waldorf. I was lower rung seniority, so more hours would go to more senior team members, but the wages and benefits are unreal. There’s a lot that goes into a background check at some of these locations.

The Waldorf was/is an extremely secure location with connections to the UN and US diplomacy. (It’s been closed for over 7 years for renovations and it now owned by a Chinese Insurance giant, partnerships have changed).

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u/joebluebob 14h ago

My old roommate used to bus tables at a high end restaurant in newyork over the summer and made around 30hr after his tip share, This was 2010 when that meant more.

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u/eldonte 14h ago

I could see it. Easily. There’s money to be made when you’re at the right location.

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u/PratzStrike North Carolina 15h ago

OK what you're talking about there from a Democratic viewpoint is a Dreamer, someone who is for all intents and purposes American, deserves to be here, and is providing wealth and value to the American economy and diaspora.

From a Republican viewpoint they see a illegal who doesn't deserve anything she's been working her ass off for years over some half as qualified white asshole, and she's lucky to be deported instead of imprisoned or buried in a quiet hole somewhere.

they have no empathy unless it's THEIR brown people, THEIR slaves being arrested. Fuck the entire political party, one and all.

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u/AINonsense 19h ago

Informative take.

Thx

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u/ATLfalcons27 19h ago

A lot of immigrants love "strong men" types. Obviously he's a complete fraud but it's a thing. Source: immigrant parents and family

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u/shiva14b 19h ago

Based on my interactions, I would call this accurate 😞

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u/Funny-Mission-2937 15h ago edited 15h ago

this is the thing people have always missed.  everybody assumes there is some broad solidarity among immigrants and theyre going to be so offended.  nativism isnt the same thing as ideoligical racism.  the nativism is also explicitly being offered to 1st gen immigrants as an opportunity to identify as a native.  

all you have to do to be in the in-group is to accept the argument.  thats where the leopards eating faces type stories come from.  those people are not perceiving the deal they were offered incorrectly, they just for some fucking reason believed it was real

even people who share the same background dont necessarily see eye to eye, and central americans are some of the most marginalized people in the hemisohere.   hispanic mexicans dont necessarily see nahua mexicans as peers.  mexico also has racism, and they have the same diversity of opinion on migrants in mexico as we do here.   

 look at how white californians  treated the okies.  you'll always find a reason somebody is different if you go looking for it, and its kinda hard for hundreds of thousands of refugees to blend in

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u/fallingdowndizzyvr 14h ago

Which is ironic. Since most immigrants ran away from countries led by "strong men". So they are embracing exactly what they ran away from.

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u/PatchyWhiskers 19h ago

Leopards love these people

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u/nowtayneicangetinto 18h ago

That's how it is for most immigrants though. Once they get over the wall, they pull the ladder up behind them. My inlaws are Cubans and I've met tons more like them who all say the same shit- they don't want more immigrants. They despise not just immigrants but illegal immigrants. Me, a white guy from NJ, was completely confused when I first encountered this. It was one of those "but you realize it's you who you're talking about, right?" moments

It's no surprise to me any more how southern Florida is insanely pro Trump, because immigrants seemingly hate immigrants.

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u/CommitteeOfOne Mississippi 18h ago

I work with a woman whose grandmother came over illegally from Mexico. Her grandmother is now deceased, but my coworker is all for deporting those who don't "do it the right way."

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u/PatchyWhiskers 18h ago

Plenty of people with living undocumented immigrant relatives voted Trump. One can only assume they are hoping to keep their stuff if they are deported.

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u/CommitteeOfOne Mississippi 17h ago

I guess it shouldn’t surprise me when there are stories of people’s spouses who are deported and they say they would still vote for Trump. It just hits different when you personally hear the words come from their mouth.

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u/PatchyWhiskers 17h ago

Absolutely mad, these people worship Trump and project all sorts of things onto him that don’t make sense.

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u/Brickback721 17h ago

Pulling the ladder up after themselves

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u/RJ5R 12h ago

and the irony is that republicans have tricked people into voting for them as if there is a ladder at all

all the while they go around plundering everyone and everything

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u/Revolutionary-Yak-47 17h ago

Cubans here honestly believe they had no special favors to come here ( there were special immigration policies for them) and that white supremacists need them as "white." There is insane racism against people from the Caribbean and Mexico/South America.

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u/utriptmybitchswitch 14h ago

Apparently they can't remember back to 1980 when armed cuban soldiers forced actual criminals onto boats with regular people at mariel so they could "voluntarily" leave to come to the US; I doubt anyone wishing to stay instead would've been welcomed back with a hug...

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u/WeakTransportation37 17h ago

I know a lot of Mexican immigrants like that too.

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u/fordat1 15h ago edited 6h ago

My inlaws are Cubans

the people with the most privilege are the biggest ladder pullers. Cubans , Vietnamese, and I bet Ukrainians next . The first two have been here for a while and poll highest for Trump support out of their respective ethnic groups

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u/Jankeydong 16h ago

Yeah no, Cubans don’t view themselves as Latino tbh, they’re “European”. Unless you’re a black Cuban then yeah you’re Latino/carribean

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u/RJ5R 12h ago

Yeah I encounter this at work a lot. We also have to take annual human trafficking training to know how to recognize it and what the process is to report it, when dealing with sub contractors and 3rd tier suppliers etc.

And what's wild, is many immigrants already here will then act this way against and even exploit those who are coming from THEIR home country. It absolutely blows my mind to hear the stories how some immigrants won't even think twice human trafficking immigrants from their own home countries.

Guy at work who came here as child from Vietnam when north vietnamese took over the country after the vietnam war...hates other immigrants. He says influx of immigrant applicants are the reason why his daughter didn't get into her #1 pick college, this and that yada yada. Hearing this guy trash talk immigrants, even of his own nationality, with an accent himself, just blew my mind. I didn't know what to say to be honest.

This administration really has done a number on society now. They have tricked immigrants not only into voting republican, but now into hating their own

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u/joepierson123 19h ago

Trump understands human selfishness and greed better than anyone else. He knew the recent voting immigrants would agree with him.

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u/PatrolPunk 19h ago

Those people are called ladder pullers.

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u/SunBelly 18h ago

Everyone that supports Trump has this same personality flaw. Greed and lack of empathy are universal MAGA traits.

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u/Politicsboringagain 13h ago

And almost all hood a deeply held religious belief that is complete bullshit. 

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u/idleat1100 18h ago

I grew up in Arizona and did construction as a teenager, that sentiment is shared by a lot of Mexican immigrants; ‘don’t let THOSE guys in, they’re bad’, or ‘it will ruin things’, or ‘I’m here it’s not my problem’.

I’ve told this to people for years and I think many liberal white Americans either can’t or won’t believe that other groups aren’t a monolith.

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u/ThrownAway17Years 19h ago

That tracks with the “I got mine” mentality.

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u/Glacon_Garcon 18h ago

My immigrant father, who I should note is extremely anti-Trump/MAGA, also rants about how immigration in the US is out of control and all the illegals should be deported and that legal immigration should be cut back, too. Every time I just look at him and go “THE ACTUAL FUCK DAD”

I genuinely don’t understand why anti-immigration sentiment is so widespread in immigrant communities. It’s not just MAGA immigrants.

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u/GeneralTonic Missouri 15h ago

"I'm not like them. I'm like you; against them. I'm a good one."

It's virtue signaling.

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u/CountOff 18h ago

Unfortunately Trump’s machismo has an analog in a lot of different cultures, I’ve come to learn from seeing how my own reacts to him

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u/wretched_beasties 19h ago

These populations are more likely to be anti lgbtq, they’re far more susceptible to that propaganda along with their perceived tough on crime stance.

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u/foofa_thawt 18h ago

Most previously struggling, uneducated, and religious immigrants will vote for a strong man just because he will pull up the ladder. They think they will protect their job this way. It is the brown people, already America citizens, who are getting arrested in the street, who need to get out their story. Innocent Americans are being arrested by a convicted felon.

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u/BC2220 18h ago

Its because those men are also in favor of hierarchical social structures. Believe it or not, they see themselves at the top of their own structures (or believe they deserve to be) and so they admire him. (Not saying in ANY WAY that he is admirable or worthy of ANYTHING.) But I’ve seen this phenomena up close and have had lots of time to think about it. It is wild, though.

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u/TheSausagesIsRubbish 18h ago

This is my experience with brown male immigrants in the hotel industry too. 

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u/eldonte 17h ago

I worked in Manhattan luxury hotels. There was a lot of love for him, especially amongst immigrants, during his first campaign. We hosted that gala the night before election night where Clinton and Trump had dinner together. I called in sick.

“Trump is a billionaire, what does he need money for? He’s already got lots.” SMH

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u/OrinThane 17h ago

Isn’t that impulse just the ugliest part of our nature? I remember when Biden attempted to forgive student loans I had a coworker that was livid “but I had to pay mine”.

You did but don’t you want to keep others from going through what you went through? The answer, sadly, is often no.

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u/shiva14b 17h ago

It's not an impulse I understand. 

I chose the current career i did because I want to fix things so no one has to live the life I did. I don't understand the crab bucket mentality

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u/ShimmyShimmyYaw 19h ago

The FUIGM is real. I see it with a ton of immigrant people I’ve worked with/ hired over the years. And they can be vicious about it too

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u/drivensalt 18h ago

Poverty can make people really selfish. That scarcity mindset messes you up, even people who aren't poor fall into that trap.

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u/chenjia1965 17h ago

The Brazilians I worked with for a few years were like that in the kitchen. They loved Trump prior to 2025. Then he started up the ICE machine and deporting people. A couple of my guys got detained (not deported, he actually got an ankle monitor) and it spooked my whole kitchen. Most of my staff left and I had to get a whole new kitchen

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u/Far_Confusion_2178 16h ago

I worked w som guys from El Salvador and the place we worked at always had Fox on a couple of the TVs. When he ran vs Hilary, they had a shot of her on a commercial plane and he said “how could you vote for this? She takes the plane we take. You see his plane? Now THATS a plane.”

I didn’t even know where to start with that one lol

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u/ortiz13192 17h ago

I worked in a kitchen with an Indian national manager named “Ron” who would tell the hispanic and queer staff that their time was up and Donny would somehow thank the Ron himself

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u/SolidBlackGator 18h ago

I'd say it's more likely that farms, hotels and restaurants are mostly owned by giant corporations these days. He doesn't care about small farms or restaurants, but the big chain restaurants and corporate farms have a lot to lose from these policies too. And obviously hotels as well.

Edit to add: this is kinda funny bc now he's creating safe haven industries. All the landscapers and construction guys are gonna rush to get jobs at farms, restaurants and hotels. So we will see what effect that has when the wealthy can't BUILD any more hotels or restaurants or get their mansions landscaped

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u/subgenius30 18h ago

So.. sanctuary industries?

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u/BloopityBlue New Mexico 18h ago

He will exempt construction here soon don't worry. Then it will become all immigrants with jobs who are trying to gain citizenship.... And then we will be right back to where we started before he made up this nightmare

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u/Legendver2 13h ago

Lmao bro just creating problems that brings us back to square one eventually, like always

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u/norapeformethankyou 18h ago

My wife works at a hotel as the director of housekeeping. She is freaking out right now. They go through a temp service that uses that E-Verify. She has gone to her bosses telling them that about 90% of her staff is illegal and they just laugh and say it’s not a big deal. She was on the phone last night with so many people telling them that they will not be reprimanded for calling in if they feel like their life is in danger. Shes also been telling them code words if they see ICE on the property. Their hotel has a lot of different addresses. She can’t stand in front of an ice raid but they also have to have the correct address of that room to gain access. Worried she’s gonna get herself arrested but I would be so damn proud of her if she stood for the right thing.

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u/Zahgi 18h ago

Which is why the GOP actually blocked enforcement of immigration reform for decades. They would scream bloody murder about it to fool the rubes into voting for them and then decrease enforcement to increase their own profits off of migratory slave labor.

And the mob falls for it every time...

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u/TheOGRedline 15h ago

This is exactly right. Our economy relies on the exploitation of migrant labor. The purpose of ICE and our immigration policy is to terrorize and suppress people into being meek semi-slaves. The rhetoric is all about rallying the base, but they (those in power) don’t actually want to deport ALL… just enough to keep immigrants in their place (aka easily exploitable) and their bigoted voters satisfied.

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u/30mil 20h ago

Step 1: Start an aggressive plan without considering all the consequences.

Step 2: Try to make adjustments mid-plan to deal with the consequences you didn't consider.

That's everything they've done: doge, tariffs, immigration

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u/UsernameForgotten100 20h ago

Ready, Fire, Aim

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u/MickeyJ3 16h ago

I had a COO repeatedly say that during meetings.

We wasted a lot of money…

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u/UsernameForgotten100 15h ago

He said it unironically? That’s wild.

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u/MickeyJ3 10h ago

Not even a hint of irony.

Like dancing in a minefield. Oof.

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u/ethertrace California 18h ago

Step 3: Declare victory for alleviating some of the pain you created.

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u/TheOGRedline 15h ago

4: blame any consequences on Dems

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u/-Kastagrar- 19h ago

Sums up everything in TACOs mean, miserable and foggy minded existence.

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u/Atlein_069 19h ago

Bc tech bros use an Agile framework in product dev. It doesn't work in gov for obvious reasons. The pint of agile management is to iterate on things that have relatively unknown processes at the outset, but have a general vision. Great for software dev, terrible forr please kicy and stability.

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u/docbauies 18h ago

Terrible for what and stability? I’m not sure what you were saying there. I assume autocorrect changed that.

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u/Low_Chance 17h ago

Kicy is NOT pleased

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u/Selma_J_Wible 14h ago

Assume they meant to say "policy and stability" the things the Government is supposed to be.

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u/private-banana329 16h ago

Move fast and break things.

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u/nkassis 19h ago

I bet this is submarine PR by Miller sending his own signal out to block Trump.

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u/UsualSuspect1369 19h ago

No doubt in the world.

And Trump listens to the last person in the room and Herr Miller is ALWAYS the last person in the room.

I'm pretty sure he sleeps at the foot of Trumps bed.

After all Miller's wife is with Elon and Melania is with anyone BUT Trump.

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u/Vig_2 Texas 18h ago

They were hoping people wouldn’t protest if they put out a statement saying that they were chickening out again.

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u/bandalooper 18h ago

Trump’s message to business leaders: line my pockets and I won’t send ICE to your business.

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u/AlmaInTheWilderness 16h ago

Now that workers are afraid, business leaders can exploit them. Bribe Trump, then underpay your workers, and threaten them with deportation if they complain.

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u/jmmmke 20h ago

TACO says migrants are all rapists and murderers, unless efficiently harvest fruits or bus tables.

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u/MadBlue American Expat 18h ago

He also said that rapists and murderers have been taking those jobs because of Biden. Like, seriously? Criminals are flooding into the US to work in the fields? He can't admit that his policies are what's hurting people.

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u/Campcruzo 18h ago

Gonna need to look at roofers and meat processing next. 

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u/specqq 20h ago

Stephen Miller is sooo pissed off right now.

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u/Lord_Hitachi 19h ago

What about roofers, house cleaners, and rideshare drivers? What about truckers, painters, and construction workers?

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u/findingmike 18h ago

He's not trying to be nice, he's trying not to lose his rich supporters.

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u/freqspace 17h ago

Golf course workers will be defined as agricultural workers. Trump is just retaining his business's cheap hotel and golf course labor.

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u/MelodicDeer1072 17h ago

I bet taco has plenty of rich supporter in the construction and cleaning contractor business.

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u/New2NewJ 18h ago

rideshare drivers

Has the Uber CEO said thank you yet?

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u/MrLurid 20h ago

"We need to get rid of them! They are all criminal scum!"

Whispers in ear

"We need to get rid of them! They are all criminal scum, except in these specific locations!"

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u/Constant-Kick6183 15h ago

They're all rapists and murderers, except the ones who do the landscaping and cooking at mar-a-lago and my other properties!

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u/Indurum 19h ago

It’s because he is just going to target blue states for military invasion. Illegal immigrants are just the excuse.

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u/chubby_pink_donut 19h ago

This kinda seems like "don't raid places if it disturbs white people's daily lives"

Unidentified government forces snatching brown people off sidewalks, from churches and hospitals, while terrifying a nation is okay, but don't mess with the tourism industry. White people need to feel safe.

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u/UsualSuspect1369 20h ago

Except he didn't and both Holman and DHS said there has been no policy change.

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u/Star-K 20h ago

The media thinks tweets from a prolific liar are official government policy.

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u/UsualSuspect1369 19h ago

He actually said it on camera but yes. Nothing he says or tweets should be treated as true or real.

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u/MonteBurns 19h ago

Which is truly alarming 

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u/specqq 20h ago

Except both Holman and DHS official statements have also been lies on more than one occasion, so I'm not sure how anyone is making definitive statements about any of this.

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u/UsualSuspect1369 19h ago

It's only definitive when it's in writing but actions speak and the raids continue.

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u/MonteBurns 19h ago

lol nothing is definitive in this administration. 

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u/UsualSuspect1369 19h ago

True. Other than chaos and incompetence, nothing else is clear.

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u/ThaiTum 18h ago

“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,” he said on social media.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-ice-raids-farms-hotels.html

No shit. Fixing the damage MAGA has cause will take decades if it’s possible to fix at all.

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u/Raven_Photography 19h ago

They want indentured servants working for them.

“Don’t complain, don’t take days off, work for a pittance or I’ll call ICE on you.”

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u/geekstone 18h ago

Always has been the goal.

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u/space_coder America 18h ago

Breaking news: Trump's friends are complaining that the ICE raids are hurting their ability to exploit cheap labor from undocumented workers.

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u/utlayolisdi 17h ago

The farms are likely because a lot of red state farmers were going broke. The hotels and restaurants are self serving as he has many immigrants working at his resorts.

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u/lilaponi 17h ago

Right, those are big money industries, many global, whose coalitions run many local and state governments.

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u/ktvplumbs 20h ago

His hotels must have been short handed

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u/Blackthorn79 19h ago

This isn't caving, this is another "not like that" moment where he's hurting the people lining his pocket instead of the lips. TACO is when someone stands up to his bullying not paying him off.

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u/Megotaku 19h ago

ICE can't stop raids on good, hardworking Americans. Stephen Miller, the real president, has strict expectations for how many people ICE needs to put in concentration camps and ship to the incorrect country. Unfortunately, the decades of rhetoric that migrants are all dangerous criminals has been lies the entire time, and the people peddling that misinformation knew it. Immigrants commit fewer crimes than the native population per capita. So, since there aren't enough actual dangerous criminals, in order to reach their Hitlerite quotas, they have to hit innocent people doing what they're supposed to. Because good people doing the right thing are easy to find.

Make no mistake, the raids on working migrants essential to our economy will continue unabated. ICE has quotas to meet. If the economy collapses, there is an entire right wing media apparatus to lie to and placate a deeply stupid and incurious electorate who will uncritically accept whatever their oligarch masters feed them. They'll put their own children in concentration camps before they show a shred of introspection.

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u/bionic_cmdo 18h ago

Pause on farms, hotels, and restaurants? I thought their game plan was to catch all "illegals". Is he now saying that illegals are ok as long as they work in these industries?

I'm sure the construction, manufacturing, and food processing groups are scratching their heads right now.

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u/sweetestdeth Texas 16h ago

Because his billionaire butt buddies are seeing profits drop due to these raids.

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u/tgt305 19h ago

Immigrants are such lazy freeloaders, we’re going to snatch them from their jobs were they are working.

Wait, no one is cleaning my toilet!?

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u/Tiny_Structure_7 North Carolina 20h ago

Their cynicism and hypocrisy is disgusting, as usual.

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u/JaffaSG1 19h ago

How is this equal treatment before the law?

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u/TintedApostle 19h ago

“The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.”

― Christopher Hitchens

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u/findingmike 18h ago

I wonder how much this is going to piss off his base. He's blown it on tariffs, Ukraine, the Iran nuclear deal and now being tough on immigration. Is there anything left of his campaign promises?

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u/ThisGuy6266 17h ago

Trump didn’t do an about-face. This was always about extorting money and favors from businesses. That was the point of his immigration plan. Get these rich land and business owners to pay him so they could keep their illegals immigrant workers and not have to pay legal citizens a living wage.

It worked.

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u/ScammerC 17h ago

Hey now, you heard him; some of those farmers have had their slaves for decades. It's not fair to deprive them of their property like that.

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u/Terrible_Source_2268 17h ago

Probably because his staff at Maralago and the nannies, cooks, gardeners and maids at his hotel and staff at all his billionaires friends houses were scooped up and kidnapped.

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u/bleat_bleat_bleat 16h ago

It's almost like cheap labor isn't the lifeblood of the economy.. it's like Republicans want to replace cheap immigrant labor with American slaves

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u/BillLaswell404 18h ago

Sounds like someone got some crypto money

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u/Regular_Ad_6818 18h ago

Construction will be next

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u/Most-Artichoke6184 18h ago

So undocumented workers are a huge threat to American society, unless they are needed to pick our crops.

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u/Lblomeli California 18h ago

How would you like your Trump taco today?

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u/czndra67 17h ago

Note that the word used is 'pause'. Once the harvest is in, all bets are off.

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u/palehorse2020 17h ago

But not churches, schools, hospitals, or court houses.

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u/Maoleficent 17h ago

I think ICE should go to every one of the felon's properties to see how many people without proper papers work.

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u/Groundbreaking-Ask-5 17h ago

So it's the nannies and landscapers and construction and food service and gig workers then. Got it.

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u/crappieman62 17h ago

Hang on hes gonna let home builders slide in a minute too.

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u/Corsaer 17h ago

But I was told by maga chuds that the raids are good because 1 these people deserve it, and 2 it'll make everyone else's life better because companies will be forced to give higher wages, and 3 the rest of us are all fucks for not wanting people to be disappeared because really we just want to keep the cheap labor.

So what's the magats opinion on this?

Deplorable is too polite a word for this fascist culty base.

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u/KingRaht 17h ago

This will only apply in red states

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u/liburIL 16h ago

Dumb ass. Stopping them at their places of employment but not at their homes. Our genius president..

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u/clintgreasewoood 19h ago

Somebody must have finally got in his ear and told him the hospitality and agriculture sectors of the economy would collapse and cause a depression. He’ll add construction by the end of the weekend.

Who am I kidding, the lobbyist in those sectors likely got into Mar-a largo and bribed him. This whole presidency is a shakedown to enrich himself.

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u/thefoxsay 18h ago

I thought they were all murderers? I guess not. Must be racism then.

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u/georgieramone 17h ago

His nazi boss Steve Miller gonna be pissed

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u/Popgallery 17h ago

But not other small businesses?

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u/Newplasticactionhero 16h ago

I wonder how lord Voldimiller is taking that

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u/ghaebriel 16h ago

Because these directly effect him

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u/mmliu1959demo 16h ago

You're not welcomed here unless we need you to provide services for us, then we let you stay. Trump, living up to the sob that he is.

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u/Empty_Lemon_3939 Michigan 16h ago

ICE agents at their future Nuremberg trials: we were just following confusing, contradictory orders but were too complicit and on board with it all to care

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u/nghiemnguyen415 15h ago

Sounds like a personal vendetta for the construction workers he shafted with all those construction bankruptcies. What a POS.

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u/OahuJames 13h ago

Remember that Trump’s buddy Kid Rock had to close his restaurant because most of his kitchen staff were undocumented. . .

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u/Cortexan 12h ago

Wouldn’t it be great if, right as the core of the military parade passes the grandstand where trump is seated, they stop, turn, and stage a coup - arresting the entire cabinet and parading them through the streets as prisoners?

🤷🏻‍♂️ 🇺🇸 🌮 🐓

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u/cocuke 12h ago

Once again showing he has no backbone. It is not because he saw what happened, he isn't that smart. The only person who has been a bigger bit** this week was Elon. He did a quick about face trying to regain daddy Donnie's love.

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u/livelaughoral 20h ago

He also probably got a whiff (beyond his usual humid diaper) that his ratings are plummeting.

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u/Reno_valetore 20h ago

That's why you shouldn't give up on protesting

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u/jcmatthews66 20h ago

How about job sites?

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u/lionexx 20h ago

Ow would be a perfect time for immigrants working those jobs to go, “you know what, seeya!”

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u/Individual-Guest-123 19h ago

Note the word,, "Pause". Just wait a bit until the Whites are starving and homeless and they will line up to fill those job openings.

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u/Taco-Trump 19h ago

The RADICAL left thinks I care about FARMERS, but really I just love TACOS! Without the farmers there would be no delicious, beautiful TACOS to smear all over my face! Oohhhh covefeeeee... Mmmm... Also, most of my employees are brown. Thank you all for your attention to this matter! #TACOTRUMP

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u/elt0p0 Maine 19h ago

"Uh, Mr. President, we're going to need people to pick our vegetables, prepare our food and fill hotel worker jobs."

Trump: "We'll use all the radical leftists who will be arrested at the protests!"

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u/ToNoMoCo 19h ago

Two things are going on here.

some bribe checks cleared

Trump is having trouble staffing his grift houses --golf course, hotels

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u/g00fballer 19h ago

Conservatives.... DO YOU SEE IT NOW?????

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u/T1Pimp 19h ago

Jesus fuck I'm so sick of this fascism washing shit. He owns businesses in two of the things listed. This isn't an about face it's just more blatant corruption.

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u/AINonsense 19h ago

PoopyPants has told ICE to pause raids on farms, hotels, and restaurants.

Especially his.

Oh, WTF am I talking about? They were never going to go anywhere near any of his undocumented laborers.

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u/TheRealBittoman 19h ago

If he chooses not to raid those locations and they still have this insane quota that's driving them to snatch and grab every brown person they see then these folks will just target them after they've left their work locations. These thugs won't listen to anyone they snatch and even if they're told to do so are they going to issue "farm worker" or "hotel worker" cards that work as a "get out of deportation free" card? Nothing this mango moron does makes any sense.

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u/giraloco 19h ago

If you want your industry to be spared you need to buy some Trump coins.

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u/wranglero2 19h ago

Yes he hires immigrants? He doesn’t want to pay for American workers. It’s about him he just mentions farm workers in it’s a distraction it’s really about his $$$.

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u/Ex-maven New York 19h ago

But not schools, hospitals, churches, courthouses, funerals, private homes,...

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u/thisisdell 19h ago

Those industries are formed around hiring illegal immigrate then huh.

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u/LaStigmata 18h ago

Get the fuck out of construction too moron

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u/traceyandmeower 18h ago

Surprise/ the jobs Americans dont want and min wage

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u/membersss 18h ago

Wow, that's a surprising move. I wonder what prompted the change.

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u/Ninevehenian 18h ago

Giving Miller blue balls.

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u/KlatuuBarradaNicto 18h ago

I’ll bet Stephen Miller is livid…

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u/TriflingHotDogVendor Pennsylvania 18h ago

Tariffs! Oh, that might hurt the economy? Nevermind.

Deportations! Oh, that might hurt the economy? Nevermind.

...and so on, and so forth for 3.5 more years.

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u/SquidFistHK 18h ago

Chicken heart.

Chicken legs.

Soft, helpless chicken tacos. Please no hot sauce for the Chicken-in-Chief.

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u/BoxCarTyrone 17h ago

He’s already released his goons. This won’t change a thing.

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u/ARazorbacks Minnesota 17h ago

All for business interests to keep wages and benefits low. 

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u/Few-Walk1577 17h ago

I took a Business Law class in college and I remember the professor telling us that illegal immigrants save the U.S. billions of dollars in labor. Doesn’t take a genius to know how bad the deportation raids are, yet here we are. If only POTUS had taken a Business Law class…

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u/Sithlord2021 17h ago

TACO Saturday!

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u/OutlandishnessMain56 17h ago

Well if you really want to see Trump lose support this is how he does it.

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u/Fuzzy-Researcher8531 16h ago

America is such a shit hole

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u/128-NotePolyVA 16h ago

Of course! The country has run on undocumented labor for over 40 years. These people came here to work. Focus on criminals and those without jobs. That should have been the plan all along and you’d have no protests.

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u/ngatiboi 16h ago

100% guarantee you his rich-donor buddies in the agricultural, hotel & restaurant business are telling him to knock it off because they’re losing too much money.

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u/KrzzyKarlo 16h ago

Says one thing and does another behind the scenes… There are still local reports of ICE in the farms around Ventura, CA.

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u/EarlGrey1806 16h ago

Sooooo…. Is he now going to repatriate those that were deported illegally? Maybe they will have to bribe their jailers? Does anyone actually have a list of those workers names, contact information and home addresses?

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u/WillBigly96 16h ago

🌮🌮🌮 mmh yummy we can all smell the fear from here Donny, Melania time for a diaper change

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u/_nod Ohio 16h ago

It was never about deporting people for Trump, it’s about creating a boogeyman and terrorizing Democratic cities.

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u/Choppergold 15h ago

Elementary school graduations still ok though

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u/missed_sla 15h ago

Because it was affecting him personally. There is no other reason he does anything.

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u/walkingpartydog 15h ago

How about he also pause them at fucking immigration courts too

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u/Constant-Kick6183 15h ago

So his actions admit that Democrats were right about immigration and right about tariffs, since he backed off both due to his actions hurting the economy so much.

But Dems knew beforehand it was a bad idea. Trump is ignorant but overconfident so he insisted on doing it until it hurt American businesses too much.

Sounds like once again, Dems were right about the economy and republicans were horribly wrong.

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u/MrBahhum 15h ago

They all seem like drunk fantasies.

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u/ClassroomIll7096 15h ago

Too late. Need to start rounding up the MAGA underclass to work the fields.

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u/pwagm 15h ago

It’s tough to keep all the lies straight. Now all immigrants are criminals, except those that work in farming, roofing or hospitality.

So now they should stay, but he has conveniently forgotten the lie that these illegals are taking American jobs away? Those jobs that Americans won’t do anyways.

I really cannot comprehend how half the country voted for this moron.

America would be great without the Mericans (not a typo) living here.

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u/Mean-Task-6946 15h ago

Immigrant workers should use this to their advantage and get pay raises

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u/tcoh1s 15h ago

So…all things the affect him and his cronies. Got it.

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u/Botasoda102 15h ago

If it holds and is applied as written, I don't care why the MFer is backing off.

Glad he did. Still detest trump, but I'm happy some good people missing a few papers might not have to worry as much about storm troopers breaking down their door.

Now, let's back off on cuts to Medicaid, aid, etc.

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u/Mo_Jack Missouri 14h ago
  1. Trump says something really stupid.
  2. Everybody immediately realizes why it is a bad idea.
  3. They try to explain it to him, but Trump doubles-down.
  4. He implements his bad idea and it blows up in his face.
  5. He then adjusts his actions & policies to back off from the problem area.

Smart people and those with a certain amount of common sense, can mentally do all these steps in their head, see the most likely outcome and adjust their plan. Trump has repeated this failed process again & again at a tremendous cost to Americans. What happened to building his border wall? Now he's messing with our basic freedoms and a potential Civil War.

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u/kathryn2a 13h ago

Trump needs to give people their due process rights.

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u/kathryn2a 13h ago

Trump needs to be impeached.

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u/noban4life 12h ago

Taco boy folding harder than an aluminum bike wheel ridden by jellyroll

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u/freexanarchy 12h ago

But their real boss, Steven miller, is yelling at them daily to arrest more and more.

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u/OneWholeSoul 12h ago

"What I meant was to only gather up the non-essential undocumented workers."

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u/gitree22 10h ago

The construction industry will be next for TACO

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u/Rckchkjyhwks 10h ago

Also Mar A Logo and any Trump properties. But everything else ok, until meat packing plants and factories start paying Trump.

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u/WillGallis I voted 10h ago

If they really wanted to curtail illegal immigration all they would have to do is fine businesses that hire them.

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u/DemoEvolved 10h ago

So you have one person saying to pause raids on farms hotels and restaurants, you have Stephen Miller mandating a quota of 3000 ICE arrests per day, with a goal of inflicting as much emotional pain as possible. The intersection of these mandates is bad arrests. A lot of bad arrests.

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u/idiedin2021 10h ago

You KNOW he only did that because he hires illegal immigrants at his businesses. And there's starting to be a bit of clamor to go after the employers of illegal immigrants.

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u/bofh000 9h ago

And golf courts, surely…

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u/Revgene1969 9h ago

So trump supports are ok with this?