"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."

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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.”

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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.”

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"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

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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.

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"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."

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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."

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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/iceing-the-us-economy

"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.

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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."

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Tim Miller offers a video clip of a conversation he had with Andry Hernández Romero, the gay Venezuelan makeup artist consigned by the Trump administration to torture and sexual abuse at CECOT.

Miller notes the grace and forbearance Andry is able to show even his tormentors, contrasting that with the outlook and behavior of Americans for whom Trump is a savior.

~ Tim Miller

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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/can-we-ever-repair-this-moral-rot-andry-romero-salvador-cecot-venezuela-deportation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySsBj3OOg0

A top aide to President Donald Trump has accused India of effectively financing Russia's war in Ukraine by purchasing oil from Moscow, after the U.S. leader escalated pressure on New Delhi to stop buying Russian oil. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/04/asia-pacific/politics/trump-aide-india-russia-ukraine/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #stephenmiller #us #donaldtrump #republicans #india #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #narendramodi #tariffs #oil

Adam Carrasquillo tells the story of Jesus Teran, who fled oppression in Venezuela, where he was trained to be a civil engineer, and became a carpenter in the US. He went for a check-in at the ICE office in Pittsburgh and was arrested on July 8, though he's followed all laws.

"Jesus’s detention resembles thousands of other stories that are quickly defining American society in the age of Trump deportations."

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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/his-name-is-jesus-carpenter-arrested-ice-venezuela-pennsylvania-immigration

Adam Carrasquillo tells the story of Jesus Teran, who fled oppression in Venezuela, where he was trained to be a civil engineer, and became a carpenter in the US. He went for a check-in at the ICE office in Pittsburgh and was arrested on July 8, though he's followed all laws.

"Jesus’s detention resembles thousands of other stories that are quickly defining American society in the age of Trump deportations."

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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/his-name-is-jesus-carpenter-arrested-ice-venezuela-pennsylvania-immigration

Prefacing a difficult-to-read report on the testimony of men now freed from CECOT, ProPublica states,

"We interviewed nine men for this story. They are bewildered, frightened, angry. Some said their feelings about what happened were still so raw they had trouble finding words to describe them. All of the men said they were abused physically and mentally during their imprisonment."

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https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump

"As someone who has written about and celebrated Alexei Navalny, I don’t use the word 'gulag' lightly. But unlike with Soviet-era or even Putin-era Russia, you thought that couldn’t happen here, right? Guess again. It already has. Or at least a Nerf version of it. No, we’re not executing prisoners just yet."

~ Matt Labash

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https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/tortured-logic

Tim Miller talks with Mehdi Hasan about his brave decision to face the spittle-spewing screaming meemies of the fascist right in a Jubilee debate — and about how racist hostility to black and brown immigrants (like Hasan himself) is the energizing center of the fascist right.

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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/mehdi-hasan-jubilee-debate-left-me

"There are lines you cannot cross as a human being, and moving one’s own personal Overton Window over far enough to accommodate shackling people and making them eat like dogs, or stay in a cell with a toilet covered in shit, is not something that will end well for those around you."

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"I think victims, in many cases (not the ones where they die from neglect), can recover from horrific treatment like this, but I don’t think doing it is something a person can come back from."

Robyn Pennacchia

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https://www.wonkette.com/p/ice-has-entered-its-abu-ghraib-era

"(Though I wouldn’t be surprised if 20 percent or so of our population would find a way to rationalize that, too. Because that’s how far we’ve fallen.) But just this week, the Drudge Report was littered with headlines about such activities. Here’s a sampling:

Migrants Forced To 'Eat Like Dogs'
'Caged Like Chickens'
Camera Over Toilet
FEMA Camp Raises Alarm

Are you okay with that? I’m not."

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