• aramis87@fedia.io
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    17 hours ago

    “I hope we’re not going to need too many because I want to get them out, and I don’t want them sitting in camp for the next 20 years.”

    That’s good to depend on identifying where they came from and getting some other country to take them. [Hint: most countries aren’t going to want them.]

    Trump emphasized he’d act “absolutely within the confines of the law.”

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    He seemed to reject economists’ view that deporting millions of migrant agricultural workers could trigger a spike in the price of goods, saying, “No, because we’re going to let people in, but we have to let them in legally. We don’t want people to come in from jails.”

    … Hmm, that reads like he’s going to take bribes from companies to bring in workers (maybe that $1B thing he was tweeting about covers this too), or even accept bribes from workers to come in.

    I’m also willing to bet that at some point he’s just going to declare victory: of, yeah, we got enough of them, scared them off, the ones that are left are the “good ones”, the bad ones have been reported except for some that the Democrats wouldn’t let us deport even though they’re very evil people but don’t worry, you’re not supporting them, we’re having them work for their room and board."

    And the media will just report exactly what he claims with no fact-checking or pushback and his followers will believe him unreservedly.