Trump signals deference to farmers on immigrant workers

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

07/04/25 8:20 AM ET


President Trump late Thursday signaled deference to farmers in the U.S. who employ migrants illegally in the country, aiming to shield some of them from his administration’s deportation efforts. “Farmers, look, they know better. They work with them for years. You had cases where, not year, but just even over the years where people have worked for a farm, on a farm for 14, 15 years, and they get thrown out pretty viciously, and we can’t do it.

We gotta work with the farmers, and people that have hotels and leisure properties, too,” Trump told the crowd at the “Salute to America” event in Des Moines, Iowa. The president indicated during his speech, which formally kicked off the yearlong celebration of the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, that his administration is working on legislation that would permit some migrants without authorization to stay in the country and keep working on farms.

“We’re going to work with them, and we’re going to work very strong and smart, and we’re going to put you in charge. We’re going to make you responsible, and I think that that’s going to make a lot of people happy,” Trump said, acknowledging, “Serious radical-right people, who I also happen to like a lot, they may not be quite as happy. But they’ll understand.”

Trump then turned toward Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who was in attendance, and asked if “they’ll understand that.” “You’re the one that brought this whole situation up. Brooke Rollins brought it up, and she said, ‘So, we have a little problem. The farmers are losing a lot of people,’ and we figured it out, and we have some great stuff being written,” the president said in Iowa, a state that has more than 86,000 farms. “Let the farmers be responsible.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5385223-trump-farmers-immigration-undocumented-workers/

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“Farmers, look, they know better. They work with them for years. You had cases where, not year, but just even over the years where people have worked for a farm, on a farm for 14, 15 years, and they get thrown out pretty viciously, and we can’t do it.

We gotta work with the farmers, and people that have hotels and leisure properties, too,”

“We’re going to work with them, and we’re going to work very strong and smart

He sounds like a Pakled.

[cachukis]

1. Really? Just getting to this now? How about the

hospitality industry, the construction industry, the hospitals, the restaurants, the schools, how about American life?
JMFC!
My father used to sigh that he was surrounded by incompetence.
Our peers put their incompetence on display with their votes.
Ugh.

[llmart]

2. Geez, I wonder why he's concerned about "hotels and leisure properties"?

Could he be even more transparent?

[Bengus81]

22. Remember all the undocumented working at his shit hole "resorts" in the first term?

Trump got his ass busted and supposedly fired them...yeah right he did.

[ananda]

3. OK.. I keep thinking.. everything is transactional with Trump.

After the harshness, comes the deal to make it better.

I wonder what he will want.

[cstanleytech]

4. Trump had to be told? What a clueless fucking moron!!! What's next? Does he need help going to the bathroom as well?

Then again that could explain the videos Russia is rumored to have on him.

[travelingthrulife]

7. He had to get something from the farmers. He gives the big farmers money and they

give Republicans votes.

[NickB79]

5. Migrant workers don't live on the farm 24/7

Even if ICE isn't grabbing them directly out of the fields, they'll get them on the highway, at the local restaurant, at the grocery store, etc.

Unless Trump starts handing out get-out-of-jail-free cards to farm laborers, they'll still be at risk and still be too afraid to show up for work.

[pecosbob]

20. Prison labor...they won't get to go home at night.

[Bengus81]

23. There will be a concentration camp built nearby. These upcoming "work camps" was called months ago

[Norrrm]

6. What happened to the 'rule of law'?

Will Trump be hiring 'illegals'/undocs again?
He would rather hire them than Americans.

[travelingthrulife]

8. I doubt he quit using them.

[mwmisses4289]

9. Wait...didn't he say this about a week or so ago?

Then rescinded it when noemy girl and miller boy threw temper tantrums over it?? Or did I imagine that? 🤔🤔🤨

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Yes but I think it was more than a week ago

Will need to take bets on what the latest TACO timing will be this go-around!

[Cheezoholic]

11. I live in a state similar to Iowa and what I don't see is Migrants picking CORN AND SOYBEANS!!! n/t

[EarthFirst]

12. So what the fuck is the $45 billion to DHS/ICE all about?

What purpose would they need a 20x increase in funding if they’re going to create carve outs?

[pecosbob]

21. GEO Group and G4S Solutions will provide housing (prisons) and DHS will keep them filled.

[Hugin]

13. Has Reichsfuhrer-ICE Miller and ICE-Oberst-Gruppenfuhrer Homan weighted in yet?

They usually do, to the contrary.

[Iamscrewed]

14. Taco

[Pachamama]

15. Translation of what Trump is saying:

Arbeit Macht Frei….

[sinkingfeeling]

16. But veterans who have lived and worked here for decades get deported.

What he really wants is to keep some immigrants as slaves

[pecosbob]

24. What he really wants is to keep some as slaves.

Fixed that for you...anyone who thinks they aren't on the list is gravely mistaken. Blacks, whites, hispanics...it doesn't matter to him.

[lark]

17. Don't believe a word he sats. He said this a few weeks ago, Miller exploded and he took it back.

He has no moral imperatives other than pain for others and grifting for himself.

[samnsara]

18. of course when these 'protected' workers go home..

...and go to church or walmart or lowes or shopping for food..... they will be arrested and deported.How is anyone gonna know they are protected unless.....they are made to.......... carry papers!!!!

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

19. MAGA: "Make Agriculture Great Again, farm workers will be exempt from the ICE"--DJT