Amnesty Would Destroy Trump's Legacy ｜ 7⧸10⧸25
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Summary
In this episode, we take a look at the growing fears that President Trump is about to strike a deal that would grant amnesty to illegal immigrants working in agriculture and hospitality industries. The problem is, this would be a betrayal of the promises made to the MAGA faithful.
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Earlier this week, Charlie Kirk reported that President Trump was facing significant pressure
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from the GOP donor class to strike a bipartisan deal that would provide amnesty
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to illegal aliens working in agriculture and hospitality.
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Establishment Republicans have always hated Trump,
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and the fact that his supporters have demanded true border security and immigration enforcement
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By itself, large corporations lobbying the Trump administration
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to attempt to keep their slave-wage immigrant workforce
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but the fact that Trump has started to repeat their rhetoric,
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and anyone who gets emotionally exasperated at any single statement
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will start to look like a hysterical journalist.
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The president will fire off lines about annexing Canada,
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but no one takes serious action over this stuff.
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That said, Trump is also very receptive to public opinion
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and often seems to be judging the audience's reaction before making a decision.
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This constant attention to public reaction means that it's usually worth providing pushback
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to bad policy suggestions floated by the president without becoming overly emotional.
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and that's why he has suddenly rallied opposition against any possible amnesty deal.
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Kirk is very influential and well-connected in the Trump sphere,
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so the fact that he believes this is a real danger worth agitating against
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means that something big is probably brewing in the Washington swamp.
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Corporate America were never fans of immigration enforcement,
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but as long as deportation stayed focused on gangbangers and drug dealers,
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Once ICE started conducting worksite raids and draining the labor pool of illegal agricultural workers,
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corporate interests decided it was time to kick the lobbying into high gear.
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At first, Trump started to mention in his speeches that his Secretary of Agriculture,
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Brooke Rawlins, had told him about the plight of farmers and hotel owners
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who were losing some of their best workers to deportations.
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The president then said that his administration would work with farmers
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to ensure that they got the workers that they needed.
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exempting farmers and hotels from immigration raids.
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It's clear that lobbyists and Secretary Rawlins had Trump's ear.
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Thankfully, the online backlash to this announcement was so fierce
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that the administration quickly reversed their official guidelines,
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Unfortunately, that was far from the end of the story.
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Trump continued to mention the importance of giving farmers access to illegal labor,
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despite this clearly being deeply unpopular with his supporters.
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In the wake of the Big Beautiful Bill's passage
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and its massive increase in border security funding,
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it appears that many Washington power brokers are attempting to convince the president
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that now is the time to tack back to the center on immigration.
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began to make its way around the halls of power.
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And this is almost certainly why Kirk felt the need to take action.
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Special carve-outs for illegal labor provided to specific industries
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would be a deep betrayal of the promises made to the MAGA faithful.
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There may have been a time where closing the border
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and deporting the worst offenders would have been enough,
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but that moment is well in the rearview mirror.
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entered the country under Joe Biden's completely illegitimate puppet regime.
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That's a number that's several million more than the population of the average U.S. state.
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Democrats intentionally flooded the country in an attempt to permanently alter the demographics
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And if these new arrivals are not expelled immediately,
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After Kirk's warning that an official amnesty plan may be coming down the pipeline,
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another round of online backlash led to the Secretary of Agriculture being marched out in front of the public
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to assure them that mass deportations would continue.
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but Rollins left some wiggle room in her remarks when she said that deportations would now be more strategic.
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Trump seemed to confirm the Secretary's remarks by saying that there would be no amnesty,
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but immediately followed up by announcing that the administration was considering a workers' program
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so farmers could get the labor that they needed.
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That language did not have the reassuring effect that the president was hoping for.
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The United States already has a program for employers who want to hire foreign workers.
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Farms which ignore that program in favor of hiring illegal immigrants
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Business owners should not receive a seat at the table for flagrantly violating the law.
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Allowing illegal aliens to stay in the United States and rewarding them with American jobs is amnesty.
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All the attempts to redefine the term are ugly and disingenuous.
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Conservatives have been betrayed on immigration so many times it's almost comical.
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We're promised enforcement of the law in exchange for some kind of immigration reform,
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Illegals get to stay and the border eventually reopens.
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And make no mistake, this will not end with just the workers.
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Their families will come and then their extended families.
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Chain migration will turn into mass immigration just like it always does.
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Donald Trump was elected because he was the first candidate to talk about truly changing the game
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with measures like a border wall and mass deportations.
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Pushing a bipartisan amnesty deal right after receiving the funding to enact those plans
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which have already been promised would be an incredible betrayal.
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but for all of his accomplishments, his naivete on immigration was disastrous.
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Reagan's amnesty doomed California, once a solid red state,
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to become the most important Democrat power base in the country.
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Trump should silence Rollins or anyone else who is whispering in his ear
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Establishment Republicans were abandoned in favor of Trump
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because they regularly chose the well-being of the donor class
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It would be a tragedy to see Donald Trump throw away his legacy
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