Trump has promised an immigration crackdown if reelected. That could backfire on the economy. He’s promised mass deportations.of 15 to 20 million people, possibly using the National Guard. Economists worry that would backfire by worsening worker shortages and reigniting inflation.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/business/immigration-trump-inflation-jobs/index.html

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  2. [Just read about Project 2025.](https://www.niskanencenter.org/project-2025-unveiling-the-far-rights-plan-to-demolish-immigration-in-a-second-trump-term/#:~:text=Unlike%20in%20the%20previous%20years,in%20pursuit%20of%20a%20political) The fascist takeover is nicely outlined courtesy of the Heritage Foundation:

    # Cutting off legal immigration

    Legal immigration, including high-skilled and temporary employment, family reunification, and humanitarian protection, has been a foundational part of the American culture and economy for decades. Legal immigrants fill jobs American workers don’t want or can’t fill, empower our workforce to be more efficient, and feed the diversity and innovation that has always been at the heart of our economic strength.[^(6)](https://www.niskanencenter.org/project-2025-unveiling-the-far-rights-plan-to-demolish-immigration-in-a-second-trump-term/#3e84234d-8956-49c2-bbe6-709cddb252fe) Yet another Trump administration plans to bring it to a halt. Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership outlines an intricate set of policies that, when implemented in coordination, could effectively end many types of legal immigration without direction from Congress.

    Cruise by to discuss: r/Defeat_Project_2025/

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  3. Some of the hardest workers at my job are migrants from Mexico. If you would let them I bet they wouldn’t stop working.

  4. So, A Day Without a Mexican? “In this controversial mockumentary, all California based Mexicans – landscapers, maids, farm labor, hospitality workers — disappear, leading to a social, political and economic disaster which threatens the whole concept of the Californian Dream.” Will Trump supporters fill these jobs?

    Here are a few of the most widespread myths about how immigrants affect our economy:

    Myth #1: Immigrants take more from the US government than they contribute.

    Fact: Immigrants contribute more in tax revenue than they take in government benefits.

    Myth #2: Immigrants take American jobs.

    Fact: Immigrants workers often take jobs that boost other parts of the economy.

    Myth #3: The US economy does not need immigrants.

    Fact: Immigrants are key to offsetting a falling birth rate.

    Remember, as Trump rails against immigrants, he also told Speaker Johnson not to bring the bipartisan Immigration Bill to the floor for a vote.

    Do we have an immigration crisis? Yes. Neither Democrats nor Republicans have been able to develop any meaningful policy. Does Trump want to fix it? No, because that would hand a win to his opponent. He would rather rant about immigrants and run on mass deportations.

  6. Trump doing moronic shit for moronic reasons to gain the support of morons is pretty standard now I think.

  7. Trump is not going to give up the people that run his shitty golf course or clean his even shittier hotels.

    Nobody is going to deport cheap labor. The Dems don’t wanna look racist and the GOP loves the cheap labor.

    I’m so sick of media running nonsense stories like this. This kinda crap is why Trump is popular in the 1st place. Don’t tell me nonsense. Just say what actually is. You’re journalists for fuck’s sake.

  8. We’ve done it before just against the Chinese…

    [The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Chinese-Exclusion-Act)

    “The Act lowered income for all workers, and caused a sharp contraction in manufacturing, mining and agriculture” according to [Harvard Business School](https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=62403#:~:text=The%20Act%20lowered%20income%20for,in%20manufacturing%2C%20mining%20and%20agriculture.)

    Many negative effects lasted until at least 1940…. So almost if not more than 60 years of negative effects on our economy.

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