Donald Trump took to Truth Social to call on ICE officials to expand efforts to “detain Illegal Aliens” in cities at the “core of Democrat Power Center.” It comes after deportations in Los Angeles sparked protests.
Kill ICE
In the short term, this will hurt sectors of the economy, but in the long term, won’t this raise wages for pretty much everyone in the blue states / cities they focus on?
No. They will close down, cut their losses and do something else. While letting everything they grew rot on the ground.
In the short term it doesn’t matter. Eventually some other company or smaller scale farmer will fill the void.
This is why I said short term it is harmful.
Long term, the market will grow and adapt.
Neoliberal economic understanding of how things work is patently false to the point of being fabricated lies.
How? He’s attacking minimum wage jobs.
Immigrants are part of what makes our country great, so don’t misread me here, but by getting rid of illegal immigrants it would force folks who skirt employment laws and wage laws,
Those folks would still need workers and would have to pay a lot more for their labor…
If there is suddenly a 5% loss or whatever the number of illegal immigrants in that sector or what not, employers will have to compete a lot more for the workers….
Wages would go up for all.
If you do it randomly and all at once, it can really hurt a bunch of sectors of the economy… but over time those sectors will figure how to make it work and the blue states in this scenario will be doing even better than they already are now compared to red states
In short, no.
The profit motive does not allow for this.
There is a reason red states are trying to choose back child labor laws.
In all honesty, this will probably result in more prison labor and a greater profit motive to lock up more people.
In florida years ago, when e-verify was being pushed, and tomato farm operations had to verify social security numbers for their employees, they didnt start paying legal/competitive wages- they just left tomatoes on the vines to rot - and then took subsidies and tax breaks for operating those farms at a loss. some agriculture companies just got out of the tomato business altogether.
employers at the largest levels don’t care about construction, or farming or whatever- they care about profit. the investors don’t care about the work their companies perform- if a sector becomes significantly less profitable because of a lack of immigrant workers, they don’t just take a hit to their profits and move on, they pull their investments and find another business to invest in. there will plainly be less construction firms, less farms, less local restaurants able to compete with the chains.
the money in this economy is hoarded by the upper class- they can control how businesses operate, and because the rest of us have limited buying power, our choices are dictated more by what we can afford than what we need or want. demand in this economy has power, but it is easily overwhelmed by control of the supply by purely profit motivated investors.
they dont want to make less money selling higher priced tomatoes, and at the same time, we dont have the available income to budget for higher priced tomatoes, from the largest or smaller farms, and will just shift spending to other cheap food we can afford in our budgets. lots of businesses will close but the investors- who most elected officials serve- will just invest elsewhere, which is why they don’t care about the impact on the rest of us. large operations will gobble up the failing smaller ones, consumer options will continue to shrink, and the people we’ve been exploiting for their labor will lose their source of income.
there will be no industry-wide rise in low wages, just diminishing supply. eventually the tariffs will go, and then supply will be replaced by (even cheaper) foreign production.
It makes smaller farmers get more of the market share….
Most neoliberal concepts of how the economy work are pretty much fabricated wholesale.
He isn’t even trying to hide it.
It’s blatantly political in nature - he is directly targeting blue states in the union. Just damn.
And considering the lawmakers who were gunned down this weekend, it’s in pretty horrible taste. But I guess that’s a given in all matters concerning him.
Hey, buddy. Suck our collective dicks.
Almost like he wants to engineer a conflict he can use to grab more power and attack his enemies (political players, not “the little people” who he gives no shits about).
Page 555 of the playbook.
Fuck this guy. He’s just pissed because no one came to his GI Joe-themed birthday party.
Don’t forget being pissy his deportation numbers are lower than Bidens.
also pissed his parade wasnt distracting enough from the protest news. we havnt forgotten the tariffs, bbb either.
Fuck up, wonder if mega happy. Lot of my fucking racist neighbors voted for him because he was going get rid of the illegals. Yet there still here, not single one worried. Because he seems focused only on blue states. It’s like he just wants a civil war to hold power not to acutely get rid of illegals.
the actual illegals, he actually stop targeting farms, restuarants,etc. where most of the bulk of undocumented are. the illegimate ones are going to stay hidden, so less likely to even find said illegal, hes going after legal ones.
Trump is unprincipled. He simply doesn’t have convictions beyond selfish gain. The good news is he doesn’t truly hate anyone. But he also doesn’t love anyone. He has no true sense of worth at all. He is completely ambivalent to all things with one major exception. He is remorselessly opposed to anyone who doesn’t contribute to his personal aggrandizement or who stands in direct opposition to his ego. He doesn’t give a shit about immigrants “ruining America”, because he doesn’t give a shit about America in the first place. He doesn’t give a shit about crime because it doesn’t effect him directly. He doesn’t care about jobs because he’s never had one and doesn’t understand the point. He just follows his nose like Tucan Sam, but instead of fruity cereal, it’s prestige he covets. And he’s so sick, that becoming president of the United States isn’t even enough. Nothing is enough. His sense of self esteem is so diminished and corrupted that he would literally see the earth destoyed if it meant that he felt important for the brief final moments. I truly believe that his whole raison d’être and subsequent global fuckery can be traced to that one single moment that Obama got a laugh at his expense. This is just how petty he really is, and how fucked we really are.
With you all the way. Someday this will be studied as a turning point in world history:
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What an unfathomable waste he is.
Just such a shame to the entire universe that he has ever even existed in the first place.
