Posted on 06/19/2025 8:56:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thinking she could get President Trump's attention by pulling out big money numbers on illegal immigration , Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass whipped them out:
There are entire sectors of the economy in Los Angeles that depend on immigrant labor.
This administration is waging a war against our own economy. pic.twitter.com/9G8YXV8i5P — Mayor Karen Bass (@MayorOfLA) June 16, 2025
It was not the slam dunk she thought it was.
It was part of an emerging Democrat "narrative," though:
It came as this study came out, according to KTLA:
The mass deportation of California’s undocumented residents could slash $275 billion from the state’s economy, eliminate $23 billion in annual tax revenue, and severely disrupt key industries such as agriculture, construction and hospitality, according to a new study released on Tuesday.
The report, published by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute in partnership with UC Merced public health professor Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, outlines the sweeping economic consequences of increased federal immigration enforcement.
It finds that undocumented immigrants — who make up 8% of California’s workforce — are integral to the state’s $4.1 trillion economy, the fourth largest in the world.“Immigrants, both documented and undocumented, are deeply and intricately woven into our overall economic fabric,” said study co-author Abby Raisz, research director for the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. “The impact of losing 8% of California’s workforce would have a crippling effect on the state economy. The impacts would extend far beyond California’s borders, with labor shortages contributing to higher food prices nationwide.”
So they are all saying this to get President Trump to stop enforcing illegal immigration laws, because it would destroy the California economy.
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I would like all of this to be itemized and clarified. What industries and what specific jobs is she talking about?
Would she misspelled it. It’s will
And it’s already there.
Karen Bass is using the same argument that Southern plantation owners and politicians were accused of for advocating slavery. Is Karen Bass a modern day southern plantation slavery advocate? It sure looks like it!
The Slave Party speaks.
Didn’t our administration just admit that farming and hotels would shrink without illegals?
“That’s a zombie economy”
California has no economy.
The governor is an uneducated nepo baby with even less sense
High state taxes and the highest debt second only to the New Yorkers
The take money from the federal government however they can - new programs that never produce
The high speed train? Where it going. Some los Angeles n has urgent business in Napa valley? San Francisco is shutting down
Suburbs of LA are ghost towns
Bass and her cohorts and predecessors have destroyed it
Being deprived of illegals would jeopardize those troughs of public money the politicians loot from
“ Didn’t our administration just admit that farming and hotels would shrink without illegals?”
They pointed it out. They also said it won’t stop the deportations
What is so hard about bringing in those you need through legal channels?
“Mayor Karen Bass admits it: Los Angeles would shrivel without its illegals”
Sounds good! Let’s do it!
Who pick da cotton, massa???
If they are saying 8% of those working in California are illegally here, that represents about 1.6 million undocumented people in the California workforce. It’s probably more, but that’s quite a large number already.
Great news! Paging Tom Homan!
Get rid of the illegal aliens and you will save $500 billion in welfare payouts.
Get those parasites out, all of them OUT!
Incompetent Politicians and their shrivel
Then let it shrivel.
So LA depends on Slave Labor. How Democratic of the Democrat Party.
Yes, and it would also cause redistricting, loss of Congressional seats, and a decrease in electoral votes for the state.
IF EMPLOYERS HIRE AMERICANS TO DO THE JOBS——THERE IS NO LOSS OF REVENUE IN ANY CATEGORY.
THIS IS A FALSE FLAG ARGUMENT, IMO.
EMPLOYERS WILL HIRE SOMEONE WHO IS AN AMERICAN TO DO THE JOB.
THEN-—ACTUAL PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS WILL OCCUR:
MEDICARE/SOCIAL SECURITY WILL BE INCREASED.
THE PEOPLE CURRENTLY SUCKING UP MEDICAID IN CALIF WILL BE REMOVED & THOSE FUNDS CAN HEAL UP, ALSO
SEEMS LIKE A HUGE NET WIN FOR CALIF & THE USA TO ME.
I HAVE DONE ACCOUNTING SINCE 1957. STILL CAN DO SUCH.
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