Trump said at the meeting with reporters present that “we have to take care of our farmers, the hotels and, you know, the various places where they tend to, where they tend to need people.”
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“So a farmer will come in with a letter concerning certain people, saying they’re great, they’re working hard. We’re going to slow it down a little bit for them, and then we’re going to ultimately bring them back. They’ll go out. They’re going to come back as legal workers.”
It was unclear what he meant by “slow it down a little bit for them.” The administration has been pouring resources into arresting, detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants to fulfill Trump’s campaign pledge to conduct a history-making mass deportation of immigrants from the United States.
This sounds like what was floated around here back in the late Obama days, IIRC.
Which is a ridiculous, costly plan.
If you think there are a lot of “great, nice people” working the fields and hotels, much better to just give them the power to become legal workers in place.
But of course, that sounds too much like “amnesty”.
We need people to do these jobs. But sneaking into the country to work is illegal. So why not create an expedited pathway for people to come in and work legally? Makes sense to me.
