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"And especially in North Carolina, when small businesses are 50% of your workforce and also farms and agribusiness are the number one economic driver in your state…. This is just impacting people, again, who don't feel safe to go to work, even if they are U.S. citizens. And it's just it's hit everybody everywhere in every sector."
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Bob Smietana notes that in having immigrants rounded up, detained, deported, Trump is doing MAGA bidding. But MAGA also wants America "returned" to the "Christian" nation it was originally — or so MAGA imagines.
And ironically, Trump's draconian anti-immigrant policies are having the opposite effect from what MAGA wants in the second arena: they threaten to make the nation less Christian.
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https://wordandway.org/2025/11/20/why-trumps-immigration-crackdown-may-make-america-less-christian
"Younger white Americans are one of the least religious groups in the country — while nonwhite Americans and immigrants are among the most religious. ...
Podcaster and conservative personality Tucker Carlson, known for his controversial takes on American culture — and his recent interview with antisemitic activist Nick Fuentes — has blamed immigration for the decline of religion in America."
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