"Let me make a further prediction that I hope turns out to be wrong: As the official immigrant crackdown ramps up, we’re also going to see a lot of vigilantism. Some of this may take the form of swatting, reports to ICE that such and such a business or gathering place is full of migrant criminals. Some of it will take the form of direct action; remember when the Guardian Angels roughed up a 'migrant' (actually a New Yorker) in Times Square? Expect to see much more of that.?
#immigrants
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"All of this will be ugly and scary. America may very quickly become a nation in which everyone — or at least every nonwhite — feels the need to carry proof of legal residence with them wherever they go, and even having the right papers may not protect you from detention or vigilante violence."
Since about 1 in 5 US workers is foreign born, and these foreign-born workers are concentrated in the agriculture-food field and construction field,
"At a time when Americans are still angry about the price of groceries and, with more justification, about the unaffordability of housing, Trump’s immigrant crackdown seems set to hobble food production and home construction."
#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #agriculture #FoodSupply #economy #construction #housing
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"Yet I don’t think he can dial it back. He can call off his tariffs, claiming to have won big concessions from Canada and Mexico, or grant tariff exemptions to his friends, turning them into one more instrument of corruption. But his screeds against immigrants have, I believed, unleashed forces of hatred that he can’t rein in. And these forces will make America poorer as well as uglier."
#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #agriculture #FoodSupply #economy #construction #housing
/7
"Trump is doing all of this to the exclusion of taking any action whatsoever that would fulfill his reiterated campaign promise of lowering costs. We sat here and – for months, or maybe years – listened to Trump talk about grocery prices and rent prices and housing prices and the price of eggs."
~ Brian Tyler Cohen
#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #economy #eggs #housing #PoliticsofHate
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https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/trumps-intentional-avalanche-of-garbage
"Fear of deportation has led to a sharp drop in farm worker attendance across California's agricultural heartland, leaving crops unharvested—and this is a direct result of President Trump's announced immigration crackdown.
The California nonprofit news site CalMatters reports farmworkers are not showing up to harvest crops."
~ David Martin Davies writing on Jan. 24
#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #economy #eggs #housing #PoliticsofHate
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It's very ironic that Trump's own businesses are/were known for employing huge numbers of undocumented migrants as they can pay them a pittance!
