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Dulcinea

(10,099 posts)
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 07:42 AM 13 hrs ago

Trump's MAGA allies have a new plan for mass deportations. It could splinter the coalition.

(Politico) A group of President Donald Trump’s MAGA allies released a playbook Wednesday to fulfill the largest deportation push in U.S. history. It could very well split Trump’s coalition.

The plan from the Mass Deportation Coalition — an organization led by some prominent Trumpworld veterans, immigration restrictionist groups and hawkish policy experts — rests on one crucial pillar: A major immigration enforcement crackdown on workplaces, modeling the strategy that former President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration used to deliver the nation’s largest deportation initiative in history.

“There is no chance for a mass deportation program if worksite enforcement is not the centerpiece,” the playbook, shared first with POLITICO, reads. “Enforcement at scale means focusing on physical areas where illegal aliens are concentrated: worksites.”

That strategy almost certainly promises to alienate some of the Trump administration’s allies in the agriculture, construction and hospitality industries, which all rely heavily on undocumented labor. Farm groups in particular hold significant sway in Trump’s Washington and have already shown prowess in steering the administration away from worksite enforcement when those efforts disrupted the industry.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-maga-allies-plan-mass-101000277.html

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Trump's MAGA allies have a new plan for mass deportations. It could splinter the coalition. (Original Post) Dulcinea 13 hrs ago OP
Dipshits. mwmisses4289 11 hrs ago #1
Blatant racism Picaro 9 hrs ago #2
It's just an excuse to beat up on minorities Farmer-Rick 8 hrs ago #3
actually many are proposing to do just as you suggest somsai 28 min ago #5
Let's start with employers. WmChris 7 hrs ago #4

mwmisses4289

(4,201 posts)
1. Dipshits.
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 09:07 AM
11 hrs ago

And are your low info white boy magats going to jump at the chance to fill these hard, labor intense, low wage job slots this nonsense will open up? No? How about you dipshits proposing this? You gonna fill those jobs? Didn't think so.
Somebody needs to slap these idgits upside the head, and send them to work for several months at these work sites. Maybe then their two brain cells will rub together and start working, and they will get a dim understanding of what these honest folk really do.

Picaro

(2,397 posts)
2. Blatant racism
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 11:16 AM
9 hrs ago

This whole thing is motivated by sheer racism.

No one ever seems to stop and note that this is a job that doesn’t need doing.

We need these immigrants—legal or not.

Our economy will collapse if these idiots are successful.

And won’t that be fun?

Farmer-Rick

(12,668 posts)
3. It's just an excuse to beat up on minorities
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 12:20 PM
8 hrs ago

Since they are ignoring "due process", you can bet anyone who dares stands up to them will be deported too, or killed like in Minneapolis.

There a simple quick way to get people working in the US illegally to go back home. Just fine the employer enough to make it hurt. No need for expensive mass transportation. No need for holding cells in concentration camps. No need to expand the torture and abuse of people through the corporate incarceration system.

When corporate employers are held accountable, severely fined and punished for hiring undocumented workers, they stop hiring them for the most part. Then the undocumented worker, with no employment opportunities, will go home.

But if course it's not about undocumented workers. It's about abusing minority groups and making US citizens afraid the abuse will be directed at them next.

somsai

(238 posts)
5. actually many are proposing to do just as you suggest
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 08:18 PM
28 min ago

stronger documentation requirements paired with monetary inducements. One great suggestion was to not allow deductions of FICA taxes paid if a submission is found to be of an unauthorized worker. Employers would be taxed on those moneys as if they were profit. It adds up to around 15.2% or so that the government would get to keep, and the company would be paying any corporate profits beyond that.

No job site videos required.

Downside is it would only make illegal labor maybe 20% more expensive. An additional fine after a year or so would help.

There are many methods that would work. One problem is that the Biden administration issued many millions of asylum visas, most of which will eventually be denied, meanwhile people can legally work, get medicaid, etc. Maybe 3 million people or more. It's unknown how many years it would take to hear all the cases. 5 years, 10. It was an intentional way to create open borders.

WmChris

(744 posts)
4. Let's start with employers.
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 01:40 PM
7 hrs ago

If there weren't greedy bastards looking for a cheap disposable workforce we there would no reason for illegal workers. Start arresting anyone employing illegals and pretty soon they quit employing illegals.

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