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Don't Tell MAGA, But Trump Plans to Increase Immigrant Labor
The truth behind Trump's immigration crackdown.
Step right up, folks! To the greatest, gaudiest, grimiest spectacle this side of the Gulf of…whatever I name it.
Behold! The caravans of criminals! The floods of fentanyl! The brown hordes allegedly coming for your jobs, your wives, and eating your Golden Retriever.
Marvel at the amazing strongman, Donald J. Trump, wrangler of immigrants, hero of Heartland diners, and "bigly" tariff punisher. Yes, sir, he'll wall 'em out, ship 'em off, and build detention centers so patriotic they practically bleed Freedom.™
But peel back the velour curtain, and the real trick isn't what Trump's ranting about — it's what he's hiding. Because while the cameras fixate on gay Venezuelan hairdressers cast as imaginary MS-13 gang members, the real influx of immigration is happening through the front door.
The Trump administration has quietly opened the floodgates to legal, cheap, and effectively voiceless laborers under the H-2A visa program.
You may have noticed something curious about Trump's deportation raids. Over six in ten agricultural workers are noncitizen immigrants, yet ICE rarely shows up at farms.
