Posted on 06/13/2025 8:47:24 AM PDT by Kazan
Americans voted for Trump on the promise of mass deportations. He should keep his promise — all of it.
Mass Deportations Now.”
It wasn’t just a slogan on signs — it was a rallying cry that galvanized millions of voters. The promise was the restoration of American sovereignty through the removal of all illegal aliens — not just the violent ones. Americans understand that national unity requires assimilation, and assimilation is impossible when millions pour in illegally and remain indefinitely. The message that won the election was not “Mass Deportations, But Only For The Worst Offenders.”
But on Thursday President Donald Trump posted the following on Truth Social:
“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. In many cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!”
He later doubled down on the comments during a press briefing.
“[Farmers] 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. … 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.”
But sovereignty doesn’t yield to staffing shortages. American immigration policy should never be dictated by the labor needs of employers, especially not in industries built around a permanent, low-wage migrant workforce. And while there may be a legitimate case for limited, legal, seasonal migration in agriculture, allowing a worker shortage to become the justification for lawbreaking and mass amnesty reduces citizenship or legal status to a commodity and the nation to marketplace.
As The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson pointed out in a post on X, “This is amnesty. … [Trump is] also making a declaration that businesses that openly flout US immigration law (for decades!) will face no consequences. This isn’t how you end illegal immigration. It’s how you entrench it.”
Trump’s retreat is not just a tactical error — it’s a betrayal of the moment. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to correct the crisis created by the Biden administration. Caving to the demands of farmers and hoteliers doesn’t just undermine that goal — it sends a signal to activists and rioters that America’s sovereignty is up for negotiation.
But sovereignty is nonnegotiable. America exists to serve its citizens — not foreign nationals and not the preferences of politically connected industries. A government that does not prioritize the interests of Americans is a government that has lost its purpose. No nation can preserve its sovereignty — or its identity — while permitting mass migration on the scale we’ve witnessed.
When millions of foreigners arrive, assimilation to the degree necessary to preserve America becomes impossible. Instead of adopting the American way of life, many replicate the nations they left, forming parallel societies defined by different languages, cultures, and allegiances, as has happened in Europe and the U.S.
Simply put, no country can withstand the consequences of mass migration. This isn’t about who is a hard worker or who fills a labor gap. If America is merely an economic opportunity zone, then Trump’s concessions make perfect sense. But if America is a country — a real nation with a shared history, culture, and people — then our immigration policy must reflect that reality. No one who sneaks into the country illegally should be rewarded with legal status or amnesty, no matter how useful he is to an agricultural conglomerate or a hotel chain. This is not just a question of identity either; it’s also a matter of national security.
As Alexander Hamilton warned in 1802, “The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common National sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias, and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.”
Mass migration — especially illegal and unassimilated — doesn’t just weaken that national sentiment. It obliterates it. It replaces national unity with fragmentation and ultimately ethnic conflict. Just look at Los Angeles, where the rioters aren’t waving American flags — they’re burning them, while raising the flags of foreign nations in defiance. A republic cannot survive when its foundations are being eroded by mass migration without assimilation — and it then chooses to reward those very same illegal aliens.
That’s why this moment matters. Trump’s retreat — if indeed that’s what it is — is not a minor policy shift. It’s a signal that the immigration lobby can dictate the terms of American sovereignty, that lawbreakers can negotiate, and that our country is for sale to the highest bidder — the bidder right now being farmers and the hospitality industry. But America is not a business. It’s a people — a people who voted for mass deportations.
Americans voted for Trump on the promise of mass deportations. He should keep his promise — all of it.
Trump repeatedly said those here working illegally must leave, come back and reply to be here legally.
Damn right!
Slippery Bannon trying to provide cover for him by pretending we only need to boot 10 million from the last 4 years and only 20 million are here in total.
And this is dead on.
The “farmers” in California hire illegals because they are bullied into it: Jerry Brown’s laws against farm automation and the street muscle of the UFW makes it nearly impossible to do anything else.
Prior to this crap being imposed in the mid-70s, American kids used to work summers packing and picking fruit to save cash for school. Not anymore...neither the ag contractors or the farmers would dare hire anyone except the Sacred Illegales.
This is pathetic. A preemptive “F YOU” to all the Trump worshipping asslickers who will crtiticize you for starting this thread and me for responding and not worshipping this orange buffoon. WE ARE GOING TO LOSE. Our side is too weak and stupid and incompetent and corrupt and traitorous to defeat the left and half the repugnicant party. Prepare for the worst
You're right of course, but be prepared for a barrage of foaming at the mouth replies from people who think that everything and anything Trump says is Holy Writ.
I’m holding off on being over critical just yet, but I don’t like what I’m hearing so far - in particular with the hospitality industry. Farming is a little bit unique and has relied on legal migrant workers for years, so I’m a little more open to some kind of accommodation for farming, but only if it’s done on a limited basis. Such illegals should still be required to self-deport but perhaps could be allowed an expedited return if certain conditions are met.
He’s talking about not kicking people out who have worked here for decades, have assimilated to some degree.
Bannon said ‘hey. Bad timing’. It’s bad timing
The problem is tens of millions flooding the border, populating districts enough to give us 27 extra congressional seats
Look at the pushback he’s getting from the people and the judiciary. The deep state politicians
He needs to deport all of them even these people I say watch.
When I was a kid, I lived in a small town with (as far as I can recall) not a single Mexican or Meso-American, and yet somehow, berries at the local farms all got picked, roofs got tarred and tiled, and lawns were mowed. Yet according to supporters of amnesty, we're supposed to believe that US agriculture and construction will collapse overnight if we close the border and deport illegals.
I went to high school with teens who harvested crops to make money.
Now one can collect welfare or "disability" and choose to not work. Taxpayers are paying Americans not to work while shelling out welfare to illegals who work for cash. These are the actions of a government who doesn't give a damn about the future of this country. It's unsustainable. You can't pay your citizens not to work AND pay illegals TO work. WTF?
There will be plenty of native-born Americans to pick lettuce and change bed sheets once AI decimates the white collar work force. of course, that will be just a window in time before actual robots perform those tasks, too.
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Vance has his work cut out for him in 2028. He will deny the MAGA movement on illegal immigration at his own political peril. He cannot buy enough non-GOP votes by bending to amnesty politics.
Someone needs a Hugz.😄🤡
It’s hard to see a sensible compromise. Amnesty for those who have been here more than 15 years? Of course, Democrats will make that ten and the bidding war continues.
I’m hoping Trump’s post was Art of the Deal haggling to work toward a kind of seasonal work visa for legal farm workers.
I hope someday you can elect someone that will give you *everything* you want on a silver platter. As for me, when Trump’s time is up, I doubt I’ll vote again.
No excuse for those jumping ahead in line over those doing it legally.
Of the 40+ million illegals in the country, the overwhelming majority are not involved in other crimes. I don’t know the rate, but it’s got to be less than 10% for the cartel-class of illegal.
That’s a lot of taxpayer money wasted and votes that shouldn’t be counted.
Yep. They found their way here once to get in without going through legal channels. They can find their way again to do it right.
I hope so. That’s something I could live with.
Are the farm workers no longer seasonal?
Come, pick, go back home?
If not, why not?
And if not, make it so.
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