"The reason is that immigrant workers aren’t spread evenly across the economy. They’re strongly concentrated in certain industries and occupations, where they constitute a large share, sometimes a majority, of the work force. As a result, the Trump administration’s latter-day Edict of Expulsion will be far more disruptive to the economy than the aggregate number of workers deported might suggest."

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants#ICE #deportations #economy
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"And yet, as the United States consumes more meat, our country is engaging in the mass deportation of the workers who cut beef, pork, and chicken.

A poultry processing worker in Arkansas told me about the Trump administration, 'They eat out of our hands.' She noted that at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, meatpacking workers were considered essential and called heroes, but she said, 'Now they are throwing us out of the country.”

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants#ICE#MeatProcessing
/5

"And yet, as the United States consumes more meat, our country is engaging in the mass deportation of the workers who cut beef, pork, and chicken.

A poultry processing worker in Arkansas told me about the Trump administration, 'They eat out of our hands.' She noted that at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, meatpacking workers were considered essential and called heroes, but she said, 'Now they are throwing us out of the country.”

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants#ICE#MeatProcessing
/5

"President Donald Trump famously likes his steaks well-done. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. follows a 'carnivore diet.' In April, The New York Times declared, 'Meat Is Back, on Plates and in Politics' and that a protein craze is sweeping the nation."

~ Alice Driver

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants#ICE #deportations #economy#MeatProcessing #poultry
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https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/poultry-meat-workers-trump-deportation-meatpacking/

As Krugman says, immigrant workers are concentrated in areas like agriculture, meatpacking, senior care, construction work, and more.

Cutting off your hand in the hope that might make your whole body feel lighter and better may prove to be an unwise decision, when you realize that you're causing pain to your body and you needed the things that hand did for you.

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants#ICE #deportations #economy
/3

"The reason is that immigrant workers aren’t spread evenly across the economy. They’re strongly concentrated in certain industries and occupations, where they constitute a large share, sometimes a majority, of the work force. As a result, the Trump administration’s latter-day Edict of Expulsion will be far more disruptive to the economy than the aggregate number of workers deported might suggest."

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants#ICE #deportations #economy
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Paul Krugman says that MAGA may need to think about how deportying immigrants will affect MAGA themselves:

"ICEing the economy will make native-born Americans substantially worse off."

"Losing large numbers of workers sounds as if it will be bad for the U.S. economy. In fact, it will be worse than you may think."

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants#ICE #deportations #economy
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/iceing-the-us-economy

Douglas MacMillan, N. Kirkpatrick and Lydia Sidhom report that ICE documents show a plan to double immigrant detention space this year, expanding the capacity of the immigration detention system from 50,000 to 107,000+.

#Trump#MAGA #military #fascism #immigrants#ICE
/11

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/08/15/ice-documents-reveal-plan-double-immigrant-detention-space-this-year/

“'You think it’s coincidental?' Newsom asked. 'Donald Trump and his minions decided, coincidentally or not, that this was a location to advance ICE arrests.'

'Wake up, America,' the governor said. 'This is a serious moment.'”

~ Jacob Knutson

#Trump#MAGA #military #fascism#ICE #immigrants#Newsom
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https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-agents-immigration-raid-california-redistricting-press-conference/

"They have demonized and brutalized immigrants from certain countries. Now they are attempting to take over cities with large Black populations in the name of law and order.

This will result in a very small group of wealthy people—mostly white, mostly male, mostly Christian nationalist—imposing minority rule on the majority who disagree with their leadership and policies."

#DouglasWilson#Hegseth #churches #patriarchy #misogyny #homophobia#Trump#WhiteSupremacy #immigrants
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"For Wilson, Hegseth represents a unique chance to spread his extreme ideology. Some at his church oppose female suffrage; his denomination is against women in combat, homosexuality, abortion, and pushes for an extremely traditional interpretation of family structure."

~ Josh Kovensky and Emine Yücel

#DouglasWilson#Hegseth #churches #patriarchy #misogyny #homophobia#Trump#WhiteSupremacy #immigrants#WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/where-things-stand-pete-and-the-preacher-man

"For Wilson, Hegseth represents a unique chance to spread his extreme ideology. Some at his church oppose female suffrage; his denomination is against women in combat, homosexuality, abortion, and pushes for an extremely traditional interpretation of family structure."

~ Josh Kovensky and Emine Yücel

#DouglasWilson#Hegseth #churches #patriarchy #misogyny #homophobia#Trump#WhiteSupremacy #immigrants#WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/where-things-stand-pete-and-the-preacher-man

"And once that theology is embedded in law, it affects everyone — not just the people in the pews.

That’s why it matters who and what we platform in our churches."

#DouglasWilson#Hegseth #churches #patriarchy #misogyny #homophobia#Trump#WhiteSupremacy #immigrants
/5

"In the end, Wilson, this political regime, and its supporters want the United States to look a lot like the antebellum South. ...

What we see in Douglas Wilson’s theology today will become someone’s policy tomorrow.

If a church teaches hierarchy, exclusion, and authoritarian control, it will eventually shape a politics that enforces those same values."

#DouglasWilson#Hegseth #churches #patriarchy #misogyny #homophobia#Trump#WhiteSupremacy #immigrants
/4

"They have demonized and brutalized immigrants from certain countries. Now they are attempting to take over cities with large Black populations in the name of law and order.

This will result in a very small group of wealthy people—mostly white, mostly male, mostly Christian nationalist—imposing minority rule on the majority who disagree with their leadership and policies."

#DouglasWilson#Hegseth #churches #patriarchy #misogyny #homophobia#Trump#WhiteSupremacy #immigrants
/3

“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal
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For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, they open up about the harm they experienced.

https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelans-cecot-el-salvador-trump-families-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Trump#Immigration#CECOT #ElSalvador#Immigrants#Deportation#ICE

"I don’t know many Trump supporters who are happy these days even though they got every thing they’ve ever wanted and more. The crabs in a bucket mentality has only gotten worse.

Bitterness and cruelty are the point. … They hate with a viciousness that seems to have no bounds."

~ Jess Piper

#Trump#Republicans #immigrants#LGBTQ #cruelty
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https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/crabs-in-a-bucket

"I don’t know many Trump supporters who are happy these days even though they got every thing they’ve ever wanted and more. The crabs in a bucket mentality has only gotten worse.

Bitterness and cruelty are the point. … They hate with a viciousness that seems to have no bounds."

~ Jess Piper

#Trump#Republicans #immigrants#LGBTQ #cruelty
/4

https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/crabs-in-a-bucket

"Half of America fetishizes and perseverates in its discontent over these sleights. How dare they make a movie where the fictional mermaid is a black girl! ...

This avalanche of trauma was piled onto him because the luckiest people in the history of the world were convinced that the immigrant down the street might eat their cat."

Video link is below.

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#CECOT
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySsBj3OOg0

Miller writes,

"It’s hard not to contrast Andry’s mercy and forbearance with the small, sad grievances that dominate America’s political life today. Our current regime is powered by anger at a hundred perceived sleights: too many brown people at Harvard; a book with gay penguins; a swimmer who didn’t get the 4th place trophy she felt she deserved; having less than the Joneses."

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#CECOT
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