PULSE POINTS:
❓ What Happened: President Donald J. Trump hinted at an executive order to shield illegal aliens working on farms and in hotels from deportation, sparking backlash from his America First base.
👥 Who’s Involved: President Donald J. Trump, farmers, hotel/leisure industry leaders, and MAGA supporters.
📍 Where & When: Announced on Truth Social and in press comments on June 12, 2025.
💬 Key Quote: “We can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don’t have, maybe, what they’re supposed to have [in terms of documentation],” Trump said.
⚠️ Impact: Trump’s potential amnesty move risks fracturing his America First coalition, clashing with promises of mass deportation.
IN FULL:
President Donald J. Trump has hinted that an executive order is in the works to protect illegal aliens working in the agriculture and leisure sectors from deportation, causing disquiet among the America First base. Writing on his Truth Social platform, Trump argued, “Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace… This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!”
The President subsequently doubled down on these sentiments in comments to the press, saying, “Our farmers are being hurt badly… You know, they have very good workers; they’ve worked for them for 20 years. They’re not citizens, but they’ve turned out to be, you know, great. And we’re going to have to do something about that.”
He insisted, “We can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don’t have, maybe, what they’re supposed to have [in terms of documentation], maybe not.”
“You go into a farm and you look… [The illegal alien workers have] been here for 20, 25 years, and they’ve worked great, and the owner of the farm loves them and everything else, and then you’re supposed to throw them out, and you know what happens? They end up hiring… the criminals that have come in, the murderers from prisons and everything else,” Trump continued.
“So, we’re going to have an order on that pretty soon, I think. We can’t do that to our farmers—and lesirue too, hotels; we’re going to have to use a lot of common sense on that.”
The announcement of what sounds like a potential amnesty is drawing backlash from the MAGA faithful, who expected a second Trump administration to at least attempt the mass deportations of all illegal aliens.
Many argue that bosses’ hunger for cheap, illegal workers has been one of the primary pull factors for illegal aliens, and they should not be rewarded by having their illegal labor forces regularized. Notably, data shows that easy access to such workers has reduced productivity by providing an unlimited pool of low-wage labor, making investment in automation and other efficiency measures unnecessary.
WATCH:
NEW: President Trump says an executive order is potentially coming, allowing some illegal immigrants to stay in the country so farmers don’t run out of workers.
“Our farmers are being hurt badly. They have very good workers.”
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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 12, 2025
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