Trump joint session speech: "So to our farmers, have a lot of fun. I love you too. I love you too."

[FAITH-IN-HIM]

"Our farmers are being hurt badly," Trump said during an event in the White House East Room when asked about his position [on deporting non-violent aliens, including farm workers]. "You know, they have very good workers. They've worked for them for 20 years. They're not citizens, but they've turned out to be, you know, great."

I live in northern Wisconsin, an area predominantly supportive of President Trump. For two hours of driving, one will encounter nothing but MAGA signs. Interestingly, most of these ardent supporters of President Trump employ undocumented migrant workers on their farms. They support deporting migrant workers but exempt their own.

 

[Say it aint so]

I live in northern Wisconsin, an area predominantly supportive of President Trump. For two hours of driving, one will encounter nothing but MAGA signs. Interestingly, most of these ardent supporters of President Trump employ undocumented migrant workers on their farms. They support deporting migrant workers but exempt their own.

Yes, that is odd.
I experienced the same thing in parts of farming in Washington State.
MAGA signs and at the same time help wanted signs right next to them that are solely in Spanish. Odd.

 

[FAITH-IN-HIM]

Yes, that is odd.
I experienced the same thing in parts of farming in Washington State.
MAGA signs and at the same time help wanted signs right next to them that are solely in Spanish. Odd.

Similarly, in Iowa, which is also a predominantly Republican state, many rural Iowans support President Trump's immigration policy while employing migrant workers on their farms. In Florida, Nebraska, California, rural Americans support President Trump's immigration policy despite relying on migrant workers for employment.

They all support the deportation of undocumented immigrants, except for workers they rely on.

 

[Say it aint so]

Similarly, in Iowa, which is also a predominantly Republican state, many rural Iowans support President Trump's immigration policy while employing migrant workers on their farms. In Florida, Nebraska, California, rural Americans support President Trump's immigration policy despite relying on migrant workers for employment.

They all support the deportation of undocumented immigrants, except for workers they rely on.

Every Trump supporter wants to get rid of illegals, just not the ones they work with or know.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Flip to the Flop!

Trump officials reverse pause on immigration raids targeting farms and hotels​

The Trump administration is reportedly reversing a recently formulated plan to refrain from conducting immigration raids against undocumented migrants in the agricultural, hotel, and restaurant industries, just days after adopting the original policy.

The Department of Homeland Security announced the return to raids on such workers on a Monday morning call with representatives from 30 Immigration and Customs Enforcement field offices, The Washington Post reports.

“Our farmers are being hurt badly by, you know, they have very good workers, they have worked for them for 20 years,” Trump said during a press conference on Thursday, offering rare praise towards undocumented migrants, a group he frequently demonizes as overwhelmingly dangerous despite data showing the opposite. “They’re not citizens, but they’ve turned out to be, you know, great. And we’re going to have to do something about that. We can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don’t have maybe what they’re supposed to have, maybe not.”

The message was at odds with that of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of much of the administration’s immigration policy.

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Looks like another case of 'the last person to talk to Trump gets their way'. Farmers talk to Trump, farms are safe from ICE. Stephen Miller talks to Trump, farms are not safe from ICE. Isn't it great that government policy can blow like the wind? That's what I call efficiency.

Isn't this kinda like what other people were calling elder abuse?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Industry leaders plead with White House on relief from raids after setback​

The calls for a reprieve come after the Trump administration reversed a pause on immigration actions at farms, meatpacking plants, hotels and restaurants.

 

[Perpetual Student]

most of these ardent supporters of President Trump employ undocumented migrant workers on their farms. They support deporting migrant workers but exempt their own.

Let the other suffer and pay but not me.

 

[FAITH-IN-HIM]

Flip to the Flop!

Trump officials reverse pause on immigration raids targeting farms and hotels​

The Trump administration is reportedly reversing a recently formulated plan to refrain from conducting immigration raids against undocumented migrants in the agricultural, hotel, and restaurant industries, just days after adopting the original policy.

The Department of Homeland Security announced the return to raids on such workers on a Monday morning call with representatives from 30 Immigration and Customs Enforcement field offices, The Washington Post reports.

“Our farmers are being hurt badly by, you know, they have very good workers, they have worked for them for 20 years,” Trump said during a press conference on Thursday, offering rare praise towards undocumented migrants, a group he frequently demonizes as overwhelmingly dangerous despite data showing the opposite. “They’re not citizens, but they’ve turned out to be, you know, great. And we’re going to have to do something about that. We can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don’t have maybe what they’re supposed to have, maybe not.”

The message was at odds with that of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of much of the administration’s immigration policy.

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Looks like another case of 'the last person to talk to Trump gets their way'. Farmers talk to Trump, farms are safe from ICE. Stephen Miller talks to Trump, farms are not safe from ICE. Isn't it great that government policy can blow like the wind? That's what I call efficiency.

Isn't this kinda like what other people were calling elder abuse?

Had this occurred between 2021 through 2024, Fox News would have repeatedly aired a clip of President Biden to pause the raid and the revers position. Every anchor and guest would likely question, "Has Biden lost his mind? Who is running the country?" In the back, a silhouette with a question mark appears in the shadows. The anchor would ask, “Is this Obama?” While the anchor is speaking, an image of a female silhouette will appear and the guest will say, "I think it is AOC."

 

[Perpetual Student]

I live in northern Wisconsin, an area predominantly supportive of President Trump. For two hours of driving, one will encounter nothing but MAGA signs. Interestingly, most of these ardent supporters of President Trump employ undocumented migrant workers on their farms. They support deporting migrant workers but exempt their own.

These farmers should cheer that their workers are deported, after all that what they voted for. You should always vote for policies that are applied upon yourself, if not then these are bad policies, and nobody wants bad policies, right?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Flip to the Flop!

Trump officials reverse pause on immigration raids targeting farms and hotels​

Looks like another case of 'the last person to talk to Trump gets their way'. Farmers talk to Trump, farms are safe from ICE. Stephen Miller talks to Trump, farms are not safe from ICE. Isn't it great that government policy can blow like the wind? That's what I call efficiency.

Isn't this kinda like what other people were calling elder abuse?

Flop to the flip!

Trump suggests farmers may get to keep undocumented workers after all​

In a week where his administration has paused, and then unpaused, immigration raids on farms and agricultural businesses, President Trump indicated on Friday that he would support a system where farms could continue to employ undocumented workers so long as they took “responsibility” for those they hired.

“We’re looking at doing something where, in the case of good reputable farmers, they can take responsibility for the people that they hire and let them have responsibility because we can’t put the farms out of business,” Trump told reporters Friday.

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Sorry Mr. President, all illegals are criminals! Why should good reputable farmers be tarnished by associating with criminals?!?

 

[essentialsaltes]

'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers​

In a deep dive focusing on one farmer who voted for Trump, 36-year-old J.J. Ficke of Kirk, Colorado, the Washington Post is reporting that he along with other farmers are facing possible ruination now that the round-up of immigrants have begun in earnest and promised help is uncertain.

"The federal government had promised JJ a $200,000 grant, spread across two years, to cover the cost of a seasonal farmhand from Latin America. ... Swept up in the freeze was JJ and the $50 million grant program he’d signed up for along with 140 other farmers across the country."

Over the next two months, more than 20 farmers requested $4 million owed to them, according to documents reviewed by The Post. None were paid.

"One night, in their kitchen, Kassidee [Ficke] prepared a meat loaf as she considered the relentless uncertainty their family navigated. How would the couple, who had no health insurance, pay for their daughter’s care if the administration and Congress gutted Medicaid?"

Have a lot of fun!

 

[FreeinChrist]

'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers​

In a deep dive focusing on one farmer who voted for Trump, 36-year-old J.J. Ficke of Kirk, Colorado, the Washington Post is reporting that he along with other farmers are facing possible ruination now that the round-up of immigrants have begun in earnest and promised help is uncertain.

"The federal government had promised JJ a $200,000 grant, spread across two years, to cover the cost of a seasonal farmhand from Latin America. ... Swept up in the freeze was JJ and the $50 million grant program he’d signed up for along with 140 other farmers across the country."

Over the next two months, more than 20 farmers requested $4 million owed to them, according to documents reviewed by The Post. None were paid.

"One night, in their kitchen, Kassidee [Ficke] prepared a meat loaf as she considered the relentless uncertainty their family navigated. How would the couple, who had no health insurance, pay for their daughter’s care if the administration and Congress gutted Medicaid?"

Have a lot of fun!

The incredible incompetence of this administration is staggering.

 

[essentialsaltes]

The incredible incompetence of this administration is staggering.

I'm having trouble with 'Hanlon's razor'

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Farmers who voted for Trump are feeling the pain​

But they were promised fun! By the president!

The op/ed spends most of its time saying 'the left' shouldn't indulge in schadenfreude. I'm really not. I don't think it's funny that farmers are suffering.

I think it's funny that President Trump has rolled out various policies, including tariffs and immigration policies, that will obviously hurt farmers, and he had the audacity to enjoin them to 'have fun'.

The farmers should be angry, and I sympathize that they too are suffering from Trump's radical ideas.

 

[essentialsaltes]

NO AMNESTY! HIRE MEDICAID PATIENTS TO PICK LETTUCE!

Trump Administration Gives Update on Deporting Migrant Farm Workers​

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said Tuesday that there will be "no amnesty" for undocumented immigrant farmworkers when it comes to mass deportations.

"There will be no amnesty," she said. "The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic and intentional way as we move the workforce toward more automation and toward a 100 percent American workforce."

Rollins said that with 34 million able-bodied people on Medicaid, "we should be able to do [this] fairly quickly."

 

[Desk trauma]

The op/ed spends most of its time saying 'the left' shouldn't indulge in schadenfreude. I'm really not.

Why should I feel bad?

I am happy they’re getting what they voted for.