President Donald Trump’s base appears to be piling on his recent pitch to allow some immigrant workers to remain in the country.
Trump made closing the border and blanket removal of most immigrant elements a fundamental leg of his campaign, but Mediaite reports his nativist base have no place for what they see as his capitulation to immigrant employers.
“This is just amnesty, even worse it’s amnesty for specific industries,” posted Auron MacIntyre, host for MAGA outlet ‘The Blaze’. “This is not what Trump promised, it’s not what MAGA voters want.”
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CNN Goldman Sachs reports undocumented immigrants account for 4 to 5 percent of the total US workforce and between 15 to 20 percent in the crop production, food processing, and construction industries. It also warns a “significant share” of deported workers could cause bottlenecks, shortages, and price increases. In response, Trump proposed legislation that allows some undocumented workers to stay.
“You had cases where, not here, but just even over the years where people have worked for a farm, on a farm for 14, 15 years and they get thrown out pretty viciously and we can’t do it,” Trump told supporters at an Iowa rally. “We gotta work with the farmers, and people that have hotels and leisure properties too.”
“Now, serious radical right people, who I also happen to like a lot, they may not be quite as happy, but they’ll understand,” he added. “Won’t they? Do you think so?”
Responses suggest not.
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“Trump wants to let hotels owners, many of whom are receiving interest-free minority and migrant loans, and getting tax breaks, to give amnesty to its illegal immigrant labor?” said right-wing commentator Mike Cernovich on X. “What percentage of hotels are owned by Americans? It’s much lower than it used to be. How can you compete when a H-1B gets a tax break and low or no interest loan? Now Trump is talking about giving them even more – amnesty for their workers? This would be a great betrayal.”
“No,” posted the Immigration Accountability Project on X. “Americans did not vote for amnesty. We voted for mass deportations. Amnesty is NEVER the answer.”
Other commenters, like alt-right activist and conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec demonized employed immigrants, claiming, “the murderer of Mollie Tibbetts was a Mexican illegal who worked on a dairy farm in Iowa. She was brutally murdered just an hour away from the Iowa fairgrounds.”
Read the full Mediaite report at this link.
