For a brief moment, President Donald Trump appeared to have finally realized his immigrant roundup went too far. Perhaps arresting the low-paid workers who pick our food, pluck our chickens, wash dishes in restaurants and make the beds in hotels was not such a great idea after all.
You know, deep in his authoritarian heart, he’s a businessman who needs approval. After years of railing at “Biden inflation,” he sure doesn’t want his own Trump brand of skyrocketing prices.
“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,” he wrote in a post last week on his Truth Social platform.
His about-face apparently came after the Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was able to shake him loose from the clutches of anti-immigration czar Stephen Miller to tell him the raids were bad for bidness.
But he reversed his reversal and the raids will continue.