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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's messaging on immigration makes absolutely no sense
Let me get this straight...
Immigrants are bad, evil, disease-spreading criminals who should be tossed out of the country because they're a danger to "real" Americans.
BUT Trump has now announced a pause on deporting immigrants who work in the agriculture industry, ie. on farms, ie. in "red" rural America.
AND Trump has also announced an increased crackdown on immigrants who live in big "blue" cities like LA, Chicago, and New York.
SO... shouldn't Trump supporters be asking themselves, "Why is it that the president is protecting those big blue cities by clearing out all the evil immigrants, but allowing them to carry on as normal in the red rural areas we live in?"
In fact, shouldn't those Trump supporters be worried that this is going to encourage immigrants to move from big cities to rural areas, because it's safer for them to live and work there than in cities?
(PS. Don't worry, this is really a rhetorical question -- I understand that there is no logic to any of this.)

malaise
(285,372 posts)That is all😀
Eliot Rosewater
(32,925 posts)C_U_L8R
(47,522 posts)that if you're an immigrant, the safest place to be may be a magat neighborhood.
If you can put up with the stench.
usonian
(18,370 posts)Immigration is his excuse for a lawless and anonymous secret police.
Here's the plan (posted prior to 🧊 mass lawlessness)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220295160
Create a disaster by weakening cyber and military defense. In the ensuing grid and communications failure, using a cabal of replacement security and military people, take complete control of the country and hand control to Putin. Hegseth is PURGING THE MILITARY of its leaders.
However, I feel he is overmatched by a factor of a million in world affairs, and a trillion when they get hot.

In the middle east, "the enemy of my enemy" often turns out to be "my enemy", so I expect a colossal failure there, alienating absolute;y everyone, including his magat "isolationist" followers (HINT TO DEMS, beat him down on this).
And a bit of an aside, DNC needs to totally reinvent itself.
Change is necessary because democracy itself is at stake.
There IS NO "business as usual"
We need a wartime consigliere.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20401158

And my "you didn't have this on your bingo card"., a play for the Queen.

"Is that a ROCKET in your pocket?"

But I digress.