Summary
Donald Trump, who has pledged to crack down on immigration, continues to hire foreign guest workers for his businesses at record levels.
In 2024, Trump’s companies, including Mar-a-Lago, his golf courses, and a Virginia winery, hired 209 foreign workers, nearly double the number from a decade ago.
Most were employed under H-2B visas, meant for seasonal jobs when American workers are unavailable.
Critics argue these programs undermine U.S. workers’ bargaining power, while Trump’s allies, like Project 2025, advocate for restricting such visas. Trump has distanced himself from these proposals while continuing to utilize the program.
You said deportation is not the point, and I discussed how deportation is literally the whole point.
I’m amazed at how skeptical you are that elites use reactionary resentment to enrich themselves as matter of course.
And you’re calling everyone else naïve.
They can enrich themselves pretty damn well without needing to rely on illegal immigrants. Trump will use them if he can, but he wants them out even more. That’s the difference.
The real enrichment will come from union busting, destroying the NLRB, FTC, FCC, FDA, etc, deregulation, privatization of government departments (postal service, NASA), sweetheart court decisions, tax cuts, capital gains tax cuts, etc, which they will go full ham on. Illegal immigrant wages are next to nothing.