Trump ‘border czar’ says administration will conduct workplace immigration raids

https://thehill.com/latino/4984064-trump-administration-workplace-raids/

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  1. Happy for all the latino men who voted him in then. EDIT: Lol the backlash. Fact: they voted against their own people and themselves. (They may be “legal” but likely have many “illegal” friends and family who are going to be carted away). They voted against women, and every persecuted minority group without giving a damn. Or purposely due to the narrow-mindedness that hyper religion tends to bring on. PS- I have latino friends i love dearly. this isn’t a general slam in any way.

  2. How to fuck the economy with racist, fascist nonsense in 1 easy step.

  3. Raids? Shouldn’t people on American soil be detained by a warrant signed by a judge?

  6. Gonna suck for those citizens that happen to have the “wrong” color skin. Better make sure you have your government ID on you to show the cops to prove your citizenship. Might end up in a camp.

  8. I’m looking forward to the shit show… prices skyrocketing because of labor costs, supply shortages, the big time grift coming to Trump for turning a blind eye to the companies who pay him. The tariffs that literally start destroying the economy because we don’t have the people here to fill the jobs. All of this followed by the inevitable interviews with forlorn Trumpers crying that he’s hurting the wrong people.

  10. Can’t wait to see what happens to the economy when you remove the bottom ring out. Prices will sures go down!

  15. They will only raid the workplaces of companies that aren’t under their protection. The private prison industry is already salivating over the boost in profits.

  16. For the Latinos who voted for Trump: Remember how Arizona’s SB1070 allowed Arpaio to stop people who they suspected were illegal? It was shot down in court later because how can you tell by looking at someone who is “illegal” or not; it involved racially profiling people, which is illegal and wrong.

    So, if these workplace raids are implemented, do you think they are going to be asking every single employee present for their documents? You think they are going to be demanding to see a 20 year old white woman for her documents? Who do you think they will be asking

  17. And I bet they won’t arrest the owners of the businesses that knowingly profited from their labor.

  18. This way, you can kill the economy and make prices double in record time. Oh, and don’t forget the product shortages you’ll just have to live with.

  19. And they’ll arrest the employers as well, right? Right?

  20. Scare tactics are extra effective when laid out in advance so there’s less real work to do.

    The ripple effect will be seen quickly. Watch who leaves and who stays and has to pick up the work slack.

  21. Deporting a significant amount of undocumented immigrants would crash the economy, they won’t do it. They’ll host a few “Four Seasons” type events, deport a few unlucky soles, Fox will rave about it for months, that’s all. Just like the wall, there’s no wall, what they did build is collapsing, the voters still love the wall. It’s reality TV, scripted and bullshit. Source: many years ago, as part of a bullshit internship, some that may or may not be me hired what were obviously illegal immigrates using the Homeland Security vetting system. It’s literally set up to rubber stamp the hiring process and make it look like the employer did their due diligence. It’s actually illegal to not hire people based on their legal status if the system tells you they are legal, even if they go by a different name than the paperwork they provide. Why? Big Ag, Big Food, and construction lobbyists.

  22. So all workers will now have to carry their papers with them at all times to be randomly inspected by jack boots?

    Not dystopian at all…

  23. We’re starting at Mar a lago, right? I suggest consequences for the owners of these establishments employee said migrant workers!

  24. Chicken plants here in the south get raided. Company maybe pays a tiny fine, go right back to hiring illegals and treating them and paying them horribly.

    This will continue until employers actually feel pain from enforcement of the law… so never.

  25. I suspect that there are far more Republicans employing illegals than Democrats – farms, hotels, building and landscaping. So the fallout from this should be interesting. A whole new chapter for r/leopardsatemyface.

    And curious: Will they also arrest and charge the employer of illegal aliens? Or will he just not have to pay them for work already done and then go and hire some more?

  26. You know what we’re going to see go hand in hand with all of these new Draconian/Dystopian policies?

    The same thing we saw back during the Tariff-lite enactment in Old Man Donnie’s first term.

    Unprecedented levels of federal subsidies. But instead of just to the agricultural sector, it’s going to be every industry that gets their underpaid workforce gobbled up in these purges.

    So, boys and girls, we will see:

    – much much richer management in these companies
    – a vast reduction in productivity and supply of the goods/services these industries provide
    – a huge increase in the federal deficit as they enact these subsidies, tying to…
    – a huge decrease in discretionary (Aka, the stuff that actually helps people) spending
    – a big ass recession within three years as this system becomes pretty unsustainable
    – calls for “austerity” (but only by the ones stupid enough to not be in the top 1%

    Leopards will be FEASTING over the next 4/12/16/20 years

  27. North Carolina has the 7th largest illegal immigrant population. Obviously that’s because North Carolina shares a border with Mexico, and not because of all the pork and chicken processing plants in the state.

    All of your vegetables are picked by migrants. All of your meat is cut by migrants. All of your homes are built by migrants. Maybe instead of arresting the migrants, they should arrest the CEOs of companies that hire them.

  28. Cool, cool. So are we also going to start arresting CEOs and Managers of these companies for hiring undocumented aliens again, like we did in the 70s and early 80s? No? Then absolutely nothing changes. Sorry, try again.

  29. Long rant, but…

    In the 1970’s, I moved to an area where there was a local chicken “factory”. The factory was simply a few slaughtering plants, rendering plants, feed plants, and in the surrounding area, chicken houses. These chicken houses were owned by chicken farmers, and they were paid by the chicken company to raise the birds.

    Around 1978, the chicken producer was having trouble finding workers to work in the plants. The plants were staffed with mostly black workers, the white force left in the 50’s for better jobs. The same thing was being repeated in the 1970’s with the black workers leaving and finding better jobs.

    The chicken producer/company then went to the state capitol and actuality handed out cash to the legislature as “gifts” (was in all the papers at the time) and wouldn’t you know it, he/they were able to import some workers from Mexico.

    The first arrivals were soon followed by undocumented workers as word spread about jobs. The local people didn’t like it. Old run-down motels became apartment houses with several families living together. Several trailer parks were put south and west of town to help absorb the new population. You began hearing made-up stories about these people, accused of all kinds of things. The pet eating thing is not new folks.

    The raids started after the first couple of years. Two, maybe three times a year. They would round up 40-50 people each time and take them back to Mexico. A week or two later, the workers would be back. The revolving cost was their burden, and it ate into any savings they had.

    As time went on, these people had children. Those children are U.S. citizens. Those children grew up and had more children. Our area started being called “Little Mexico”.

    But something started changing for our area. The county next to us lost a major industry and has never recovered. This happened in the 1980’s. Another bordering county was an agriculture-based economy with a great number of dairy’s. Today, 95% of those dairies are gone. Each county that surrounds us is almost like it was 40 years ago.

    Not ours. In 1975, there was one Mexican restaurant in the city. Today, I can’t count them all, there’s so many. Along with that, from one end to the other of town, there are countless businesses. All around us is decay and slow growth, but not here. Why?

    I know why. You still hear people go on about the Latino population in our area, but they’re the reason our area is doing so well.

    As far as who they supported in the election, our county was the only one in the area that no one won. Every county around us was red. We were grey because the non-voters number was higher than the number of votes that any candidate got. I’ve heard from several sources that tensions are high in the Latino community and people are worried. They’ve seen it before.

  30. The Obama administration came up with a much more effective, far less costly way to enforce workplace eligibility. It’s just not quite the expensive publicity stunts that workplace raids are.

    The Obama admin would look carefully at all the worker employment docs that suspect workplaces provided. It would then flag fish ones and send an official letter to the employer listing these. The employer no longer had plausible deniability under the 1986 law.

  31. Arresting employers who hire undocumented workers is a good thing.

    Oh wait, he is just going after the workers…

  32. @ Small business owners…

    I know for a FACT many of you idiots voted for Trump!

    I know for an even BIGGER fact that many of you hire “illegal” immigrants because it’s cheap labor and you care more about money than you do about human lives…

    When these raids begin and your workplace is DECIMATED….you will have only 2 options:

    1) Hire Americans at HIGH wages and see your profit margin disappear.

    2) Go bankrupt/out of business because you can’t afford higher wages…

    I will gladly be there to MOCK you, to SALIVATE at your misery and take the utmost pleasure that the leopards have feasted on your face!

    Fuck you all, I sincerely hope you lose everything.

  33. Wait. I thought we immigrants stayed home and fed off the welfare system. Why they raiding workplaces?

  34. Mar-a-lago had already employed illegals—may want to check there again.

  35. And prosecute the employers, right? And prosecute the employers, right!?

  36. Not a single word about penalties for the workplaces.

    You want to end illegal immigration? OK. Fine every business that employs illegal immigrants by twice the annual prevailing wage.

  37. Is it easier to round up and deport documented immigrants, or the undocumented ones?

    If we have learned anything from the previous Trump administration… They are going to deport as many non-white immigrants as they can find and let the legal system fix all their mistakes.

    Republicans don’t care about legal immigration, they just want less non-white people in the USA. Just like it was when they were children and America was “great”.

  38. Hell yeah, burn this place to the ground. In my opinion the main reason Trump won was because he convinced idiots he could bring down costs. Boy they are in for a surprise LOL

  39. Great job MAGA. You dipshits elected the “papers please” party and literally everyone told you so.

  40. Hey, why don’t you start with the biggest slaughter houses and farm labor contractors?
    That would crash the economy and teach these Pro Trump farmers a thing or two.

  42. Oof, I feel bad for all those Texas companies about to go out of business for this.

  43. Start at the Trump properties. History of hiring illegals and then not paying them. Also never pays his legal contractors. Kind of like he’s just a piece of shit all around.

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