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Trump says U.S. to 'let your guest workers come in' in appeal to farmers

"For the farmers, OK, it's going to get good.
We're going to let your guest workers come in," Trump said.
y Jonathan Allen / Apr.28.2018 / 9:41 PM ET

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a Make America Great Again Rally in Washington, Michigan April 28, 2018.

JOSHUA ROBERTS / Reuters

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would let more guest workers into the U.S. to help farmers whom he said may suffer "a little pain for a little while" because of his own efforts to renegotiate trade deals with several foreign partners.

"For the farmers, OK, it's going to get good," he said at a political rally here, about a 45-minute drive north of Detroit. "We're going to let your guest workers come in."

That could come as a shock to the portion of Trump's base that is most ardently critical of the current U.S. immigration system.

For months, the president and his top White House advisers have been promoting a rewrite of the nation's immigration laws that would make it harder — not easier — for low-skilled workers to come into the country.

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But Trump essentially contended that bringing in cheap labor under the H2B visa system — which allows only for temporary entry into the country — won't hurt U.S. workers because there aren't enough available hands for farmers now.

"The unemployment picture is so good, it's so strong, that we have to let people come in," he said. "They're going to be guest workers. They're going to come in, they're going to work on your farms ... but then they have to go out."

The plan didn't appear to be a hit with his audience.

While they cheered his tough talk on border security — and chanted "build the wall" in reference to the border barrier he wants to erect between the U.S. and Mexico — he got lackluster applause when he asked what the crowd thought of the temporary-worker proposal.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...appeal-n869841

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Trump says U.S. to 'let your guest workers come in' in appeal to farmers

"For the farmers, OK, it's going to get good.
We're going to let your guest workers come in," Trump said.
y Jonathan Allen / Apr.28.2018 / 9:41 PM ET

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a Make America Great Again Rally in Washington, Michigan April 28, 2018.

JOSHUA ROBERTS / Reuters

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would let more guest workers into the U.S. to help farmers whom he said may suffer "a little pain for a little while" because of his own efforts to renegotiate trade deals with several foreign partners.

"For the farmers, OK, it's going to get good," he said at a political rally here, about a 45-minute drive north of Detroit. "We're going to let your guest workers come in."

That could come as a shock to the portion of Trump's base that is most ardently critical of the current U.S. immigration system.

For months, the president and his top White House advisers have been promoting a rewrite of the nation's immigration laws that would make it harder — not easier — for low-skilled workers to come into the country.

Related
American farmers in Trump-voting states may get hit hardest by a trade war

But Trump essentially contended that bringing in cheap labor under the H2B visa system — which allows only for temporary entry into the country — won't hurt U.S. workers because there aren't enough available hands for farmers now.

"The unemployment picture is so good, it's so strong, that we have to let people come in," he said. "They're going to be guest workers. They're going to come in, they're going to work on your farms ... but then they have to go out."

The plan didn't appear to be a hit with his audience.

While they cheered his tough talk on border security — and chanted "build the wall" in reference to the border barrier he wants to erect between the U.S. and Mexico — he got lackluster applause when he asked what the crowd thought of the temporary-worker proposal.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...appeal-n869841

Trump did not say "more". Not once.

Originally Posted by artist

If all illegals were deported as promised, then I could see importing temporary guest workers. BUT THE DEPORTATION OF ILLEGAL ALIENS DID NOT HAPPEN AND TRUMP IS ADDING QUEST WORKERS ON TOP OF THE 12 MILLION ALIENS. He is officially a swamp creature!

No he isn't. We already have temporary guest worker programs, the H2A for agricultural workers, H2B for seasonal workers and the H1B programs for special skills workers. He's not adding anything. There is no "more". And he emphasizes in his speech they come, they work, they leave.

And there aren't 12 million illegal aliens, there are over 30 million illegal aliens in the US. There were more than 20 million 13 years ago and they've been pouring in every year since.

Trump can't deport them through ERO in DHS until Jeff Sessions in DOJ issues a deportation order and he's 650,000 behind already with no plan at all to cure that problem. So Congress needs to repeal the law that moved the deportation order process from DHS to DOJ and move it back to DHS where it used to be.

For now, Trump will deport them as soon as there are deportation orders on them.

Sessions should have already told Congress, DOJ is not the right department to handle this simple process and it needs to be moved back to DHS.