Posted on 09/20/2025 3:54:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It turns out that the services benefiting the well-to-do are most impacted by DC’s ICE crackdown.
According to Yesim Sayin, who studies the city economy at the D.C. Policy Center think tank, this is all terrible news for the municipal economy, coming at a moment when federal job cuts have made the tax base ever more reliant on hospitality and real estate. “All these actions with ICE are like putting additional weight on something that’s about to break,” she said.
But the identity of the most prolific consumers of the impacted industries is also likely to shape the politics around the immigration surge.
Early this week, Trump crafted a social media post threatening to “federalize” the department if the city’s police didn’t resume its cooperation with ICE, which lapsed last week after the end of the administration’s 30-day police takeover. City laws, which were superseded during the takeover, prohibit local police from certain kinds of immigration enforcement. Either way, the federal forces sent to the District by Trump aren’t subject to those rules.
Though some advocates told me they hope the administration will ease up once people see the economic damage caused by yanking so many people out of the workforce, I wouldn’t bet on it: The sector of the Washington population that has spiffed up gentrified neighborhoods via fancy kitchen upgrades or dived into the capital’s booming multicultural restaurant scene may well represent the demographic most despised on the Trump-era right.
“Mass immigration has allowed the evolution of a kind of Gulf-sheikhdom lifestyle,” Krikorian said. “In the UAE, only a handful of people there actually are citizens, and everybody else is in some kind of tenuous status serving them. I guess that’s one way to organize a society, but that’s not the kind of republic of social equals that we should aspire...”
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"Bougie" is a Lefty contraction for "bourgeoisie."
It's use shows how cool they are.
Don’t care.
Can’t make me.
L
There’s two types of “ bourgeoisie” aren’t there? American bourgeoisie trying to get by in flyover country and DC Elites bourgeoisie that makes sure their fat asses are comfortable ? Asking for friend
So what!
Don’t try to lay no Bougie wougie on the King of ICE raids.
“Bougie” is a Lefty contraction for “bourgeoisie.”
PS. I love it when the leftist can’t speak literal plain old English They have to make up crap. Conservatives on the other hand just tell them to STFU and ESAD
That mean ole Trump is taking away our serfs/cheap labor. Its so unfair! Who will do my $400,000 kitchen remodel now?
Bougie? Who writes this; an AI with the mental of 15 or a journo who still thinks sounding like a cool hep cat is super dooper?
Oh no. Who will take care of my lawn and clean my house?
Wait a minute. I do that.
They be real cool!
Oh, for ALL, the Freepathon is in need of donations.
Yes,i’m saying?
It's use shows how cool they are.
Yes, but I suspect the modern slang term is dumbed-down to simply mean "pretentious middle-class" or "flashing new-found wealth" - or some combination thereof. The political left would like us to forget how "bourgeoisie" became a word that painted targets on people, after Marx's writings began to circulate.
That’s really an amazing statement for a President to say publicly.
It suggests his previous private requests have had no effect.
WTH?
“Yesim Sayin”
I want to hear from his brother, Jess Sayin, and his cousin, Noam Knott.
Yesim Sayin
So what!
For sure!
Cousin Watchu Sayin?
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