Updated: Trump's & America's "Illegal Alien" Grift. Protests Ignite! High Way Blocked!
Monty Python could not have written Trump's character any better than Trump himself. Who picks an ICE fight in a state that is over 50% Brown & Black? Someone looking for an emergency to declare.
I can just see Stephen miller salivating over Trump’s shoulder, giggling with glee at suspending Habeas Corpus, under a declaration of emergency as a result of an invasion of poor people from Brown People countries south of the US border, looking for work in the US, Americans stopped doing decades ago. So instead of just handing out work visas at the border for desperately needed seasonal crop picking etc. and collecting paycheck taxes off those immigrant workers, Trump and his cronies decided to increase the likelihood of the very same fictional human trafficking Hollywood claims comes from street level Mexican drug cartels to occur. It’s American corporations doing all the hiring of undocumented labour in America. America’s biggest plantations literally send “Coyotes” out to wrangle crop pickers headed north, across the Mexican/American border to work American farms, not drug cartels.
The Coyotes are not a Mexican creation, they are an American plantation owner creation. When crops are getting ripe, bus loads of undocumented workers show up at these plantations and take up radically sub standard living conditions while bringing in the crop. The wranglers or coyotes are paid directly by American plantation owners, to produce enough pickers for time critical harvests. Not an easy task, so the plantation bosses use Mexican or Latino Americans to be their coyotes as a familiar face goes a long way to build trust enough to get on the bus. The labour coming across the border to work are not mistreated by and large as crew bosses want them back next year. Once in the undocumented labour crop picking network in the US, you can safely move from one plantation to another and follow the ripening curve north, all the way to Canada, as a picker. Most of the people that Trump is attacking with his lies of an invasion are hard working decent human beings that have absolutely no intent of harming Americans, ever.
Workers from south of the US border should have the red carpet rolled out for them instead of the fear of deportation. Workers from south of the US border have saved America’s wealthy elites by taking a pay cut so Americans can have cheap food and high rent. Fifty years ago food was cheaper but rent compared to the rent/food ratio today, was way cheaper. Rent was 10% of what is today and there is no real world reason for the inflation that has piled up since. A house built for $35 thousand 50 years ago should be that price to today but the wealthy elite commodified housing to function like a stock. By doing this the bosses have returned the economy back to the bad old days before the Glass/Steagal act separated commercial banking from riskier investment banking. There have been no real world inflationary pressures on any commodity other than the losses of the wealthy elites in the market. Making large risky bets and then simply down loading their losses on the public by raising prices. All the while pretending inflation is like the weather, like El Nino, it comes and goes and nobody knows when or how.
If Trump wants to disqualify immigrants due to past criminal convictions, almost every European family line in America would have to be deported back to Europe. My family would have been arrested had we set foot back in Britain in the 1600s, after we were forced onto the Mayflower. They labelled us criminals to force us to the New World to kill for the crown. Hell, they deliberately engineered a famine in Ireland to provide cheap labour for the construction of the Canadian and American railroads. This is Trump’s mentality, people are just worker bots. No one has rights and therefore, no need of or right to Habeas Corpus. This is Trump’s goal. By declaring an emergency Trump can rule by dictate while transferring more of American’s tax dollars into the pockets of the wealthy elite. It really isn’t about immigrant workers other than placing downward pressure on undocumented labour to accept lower wages during Trump’s fake madness and to keep the undocumented labour scam going for the scumbags that own American plantations and food processing plants where concentrations of undocumented workers are highest.
Trump is a grift as opposed to being fake. While Trump pretends to be punishing and deporting undocumented workers, he is actually doubling down on hiring undocumented workers by American plantations, food processors and construction firms. It’s the American worker that is the real target and has been all along. Republicans and Democrats put their tits in a bunch every congress, pretending undocumented labour entering America is an emergency that requires billions in tax payer dollars to secure the southern US border with, a total grift. The real goal is the total destruction of the American labour movement, harmonizing the American worker’s wage to the undocumented worker’s income. Trump has been found to hire undocumented labour for the construction of his McManson golf course projects. Construction, like crops, are time sensitive. I haven’t worked on a single construction project in the US, where the bank didn’t demand a construction schedule that was directly related to continued funding of that schedule. This is why the undocumented worker is so successful in the US, they show up and crew bosses hire them because they are desperate for skilled construction workers to complete time sensitive projects.
The American job market is demanding immigrant workers for transient seasonal work in crop picking, food processing and construction but 80% of American workers don’t live in rural area’s anymore or want to be transient workers living in shit conditions and American business leaders know the truth and are exploiting it. Trump’s anti immigrant politics are simply about hiding the grift, he and many other business leaders make billions off of, when the solution is simple. Seasonal and by project, work visas at the border. The paycheck taxes collected by the US Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service from immigrant workers with visas will likely balance budget deficits, another thing Democrats and Republicans continue to deliberately, avoid fixing. And if past criminal records are used to deny entry to the US against immigrant workers, well, that violates American’s own well pronounced ethic of providing second chances to immigrants that every white immigrant such as myself, received entering the US.
Trump’s performance as Grifter in Chief is inferior to Biden’s but Biden’s performance was crap compared to Bill Clinton’s. Bill got a blow job in the Oval Office while grifting Americans into laying down to the most right wing legislation seen in decades and the end Glass/Steagal, leading to the crashing, radically over leveraged housing market we have today. This has made Trump ridiculous in his performance of the grift. Troops in the Streets of L.A. is an act of economic deregulation. Taking away worker management from the Governor of California and hiding the fact that the South West, Trump supporting plantation owners are hiring record levels of undocumented workers to pick crops. Trump is trying to cover up America’s greatest demand for undocumented immigrant workers since the American railroad was built, while at the same time, deregulating the economy for American workers even further than Clinton did.
We should welcome immigrant labour in our nations. We will be helping other nations build up consumer buying power for products we make for export. We will enhance trade to our nations from immigrant nations, warming immigrant nations to on going trade and buying of each other’s currency for trade with resulting purchasing of each other’s treasury bonds but all the US is doing at this moment is having the world dump the dollar while the last US Treasury bond auction was a total disaster. America is over leveraged in every sector of it’s economy and desperately needs foreign investment but Trump is failing to bully the world. If Trump continues to push American and immigrant workers into an economic hole, the public will eventually snap and reestablish and enforce labour laws already on the books and will repeal the 1947 Taft/Hartlley Act that took away “Card Check'“ union organizing of workers creating a single winner take all, first past the post union certification vote. This is why union membership of America’s worker force has collapsed from 35% in 1954 to 13% today.
So, while democrats and Republicans were pretending undocumented immigrant labour was a problem, pretending to protect the America worker from the undocumented immigrant worker, the bosses were really destroying the American worker and now Trump is asking the American worker to blame the immigrant worker for the loss of the American worker’s buying power in the economy when in fact, the undocumented immigrant worker had nothing to do with it, as demand for immigrant labour just keeps going up. Now is the time for the American worker and immigrant worker to unite like they did against Reagan’s anti immigrant push in the 1980s, leading to Reagan’s amnesty for undocumented workers. Reagan had no choice but to bend the knee to the plantation owners in his home state, California and bring in the immigration amnesty to prevent their crops going to rot. Nothing has changed in this greatest of lies America tells itself about immigrant workers. Union leaders in the US must demand amnesty for the undocumented workers in the US and the repeal of Taft/Hartley. This will right the economic ship in the labour market.