So you really, really hate undocumented immigrants as you've said many times throughout the years here. "Close the border, build the wall", right? Now Marco Rubio apparently agrees with you and calls for the mass deportation of 25-30 million people who may be here without the proper papers. You and Marco are like kindred spirits so you must also have a plan to keep the American economy afloat while you're deporting approximately 10% of the working population of the country? Could you explain which one of you MAGAS are going to pick our veggies and slaughter our cows because 25-30 million jobs are a lot to make up. Are you and your fellow Georgians going to step up to the plate and apply for a job at a Trump hotel or Tyson Chicken?
"Yes," Rubio said during an appearance on NBC’s "Meet the Press" Sunday, where he was asked whether he supports Trump’s plan to use the military to deport illegal immigrants from the country. "We cannot absorb 25, 30 million people who entered this country illegally. They’re here illegally, what country on earth could tolerate that?" https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rubio-changes-stance-trump-deportation-plan-invasion-country
Now what should we do with Trump's Florida beach club where he just hired 136 undocumented immigrants to do the landscaping, change the sheets and wash the dishes for his big parties? Don't you agree that people who knowingly hire illegals should go to jail? Have you checked the papers of your landscapers lately?
Mar-a-Lago hires 136 new foreign workers as Trump seeks immigration crackdown
Mar-a-Lago hired more than 100 foreign workers last year as Donald Trump promises to restrict immigration and round up undocumented migrants for deportation.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee's businesses have long relied on foreign workers, and last year Mar-a-Lago asked the Department of Labor for authorization to hire a total of 136 foreign workers for seasonal work, and all but one request was accepted, reported Newsweek.
The Labor Department showed requests for 53 waiters and waitresses, seven hotel desk clerks, 17 housekeeping cleaners, five first-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers, 24 cooks and five bartenders.
These workers were requested on F-2B visas that apply to workers in nonagricultural positions and require employers to show there aren't enough American workers who are willing and able to do that temporary work, and they must also prove the workers won't adversely affect the wages and working conditions of similar U.S. employees.
The number of foreign workers increased at Trump-owned businesses last year, according to Forbes, which reported that the former president's businesses hired 170 foreign workers in 2023 and at least 1,670 temporary foreign workers since 2008.
The former president's administration limited some employment-based visas in June 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the H-2B visas enjoyed by Mar-a-Lago. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-foreign-workers/
Trump's biggest campaign promise would cause 'economic disaster': analysis
Donald Trump's promised crackdown on immigration could inflict mass misery and economic calamity, according to a new analysis.
The former president's radical plans for a potential second term in office include barring entry from select Muslim-majority nations, denying all asylum claims and rounding up millions of undocumented immigrants for deportation, and economic analyst Robert Shapiro warned in a new Washington Monthly column that these policies would set off an "economic disaster."
"By any measure, a policy that eliminated 4.5 percent of the current workforce, including large numbers of college and high school graduates, would set off serious economic tremors," Shapiro wrote.
"Using Okun’s Law on the relationship between rising unemployment and GDP, a 4.5 percent drop in employment is associated with depressing GDP growth by more than 9 percentage points. This estimate also includes the impact on other jobs. A recent study of much more modest programs to deport immigrants found clear evidence that they cost other American jobs. By one calculation, deporting 1 million immigrants would lead to 88,000 additional employment losses by other Americans, suggesting that Trump’s program could cost up to 968,000 Americans their jobs on top of the 7.1 million jobs held by immigrants up for deportation."
Contrary to popular misconception, only 4 percent of undocumented immigrants work in agriculture, while nearly a third of them work in the construction or hospitality industries and 14 percent of working unauthorized immigrants provide professional, scientific, technical or administrative services.
"Doing the math, we find that a mass deportation program could depress national wage and salary income by $317.2 billion or 2.7 percent of labor income in 2023," Shapiro wrote. "This would be a much larger percentage loss than during the 1980, 1991, and 2002 recessions. It also would be more than half the 5 percent decline in 2009 at the height of the Great Recession. By these measures, too, a severe recession would likely accompany Trump’s draconian program."
Mass deportation could potentially revive inflation, which happened when companies had to replace large numbers of workers after COVID-19 crested, and businesses would either have to pay more in overtime and recruitment or accept lower productivity, which all leads to higher prices for consumers.
"Mass deportations would involve enormous costs for taxpayers," Shapiro wrote. "One study found that apprehending, detaining, transporting, processing, and finally deporting unauthorized immigrants in 2015 cost the government an average of $18,214 per deportee or $24,094 in current dollars. Using the latest DHS estimates, the taxpayer costs to deport 11 million people would come to $265 billion—without including their American children or the costs to build and maintain large detention camps. For perspective, $265 billion is equivalent to 11 percent of all projected income tax revenues in 2024 and 30 percent of the Pentagon’s 2024 budget."
It's no wonder Cruz has to rely on exaggerated numbers without real context to get his points across. If he didn't he might come over as less an aggressive pig than the pig he comes across as.
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