What emerged in two interviews with Trump, and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisers and confidants, were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world.”
“To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn’t carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America’s founding.”
“He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn’t paying enough for its own defense. He would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen.”
I don’t believe he would actually deport anything close to even 1 million people. Maybe I’ll bite my words… but the economic impacts would be massive. Inflation would shoot up.
Try working on any large scale construction projects without illegals. Costs go up dramatically.
For example, lemme talk about an industry I have experience in. Let’s say Comcast or AT&T wants to build a fiber optic network in a city.
They hire a prime contractor to do this. They pay something, let’s say $10 a foot of fiber. That prime contractor has to make sure everybody that works for them is a legal citizen. Comcast has rules - can’t hire illegals.
But what happens? That prime contractor hires some subcontractors. And those subs hire more subs. It becomes a little tree branch which each lower branch having less and less regulations until you reach the bottom where Juan and Jose are the ones actually digging the potholes and pulling the fiber cable through the pipe.
This is why Comcast is able to pay $10 a foot. Because Juan and Jose are happy working for $150 a day.
Americans doing that amount of hard labor would cost much more. You would have to pay taxes, workers comp, overtime, much higher base salary, etc. All sorts of things you don’t really gotta worry about when you have Juan and Jose doing it.
That $10 a foot can easily double.
And that’s just fiber optic cable. Imagine all construction, landscaping, etc shooting up in price. That’s inflation baby.
Trump’s whole shtick is economy. I have a feeling he’ll do the bare minimum and then advertise it as the biggest deportation campaign in history. Sort of like his wall.
The biggest best wall in the world but it actually barely covers 52 miles in 2000 miles of border.
Don’t bet against conservative stupidity.
Florida agriculture is already suffering from recent laws against undocumented workers.
I work in Florida. What happened is there was a sort of mass exodus initially and then everyone slowly started trickling back when they realized the law had no teeth.
It was meant more as political theater and not really enforced. To the best of my knowledge, nobody has been arrested to this day.
Of course, I agree with you. They are playing with fire. They ultimately represent business interests and those business interests can be hurt very badly should some true ideologue populist politician rise into power.
Trump (and mini-Trump aka DeSantis) is a conman pretending to be a Jesus. What if an actual MAGA Jesus shows up? One who believes in what he’s preaching and actually has the capacity to enforce it?
It’s only a matter of time. It’s very dangerous.