Trump Can’t Decide If Migrant Farm Worker Industry Is a Worthy Sacrifice for His Mass Deportation Agenda
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President Trump’s task on the advisability of upsetting the agriculture and hotel industries to follow his random mass deportation program reveals an aspect of what his immigration policies have, in part, always: to punish cities and blue states.
The members of the Trump administration have apparently not been on the same wavelength, for weeks, to plunder agriculture and the hotel industries of their migrant workers. While the president sent the National Guard to repress the Los Angeles demonstrators who showed the raids of immigration and customs application (ICE) in the city, he also thought about migrant raids on farms and hotels, aware of the political risks of deporting a vital work force for two important American industries. In mid-June, the Washington Post reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told staff to take a break from raids on farms, hotels and restaurants. Two days later, the DHS reversed the course. At one point, Trump even suggested that “good famous farmers” could have a kind of room pass to employ undocumented immigrants if they “assume the responsibility of the people they hire”.
During an interview on the “Sunday morning future” of Fox News with Maria Bartiromo this weekend, it was clear that Trump felt the heat of the farmers, a voting base that supported his presidency.
“I am not getting back,” he said. “What I do, I cherish our farmers. And when we enter a farm and take away people who have been working there for 15 and 20 years, who were good, who may be incorrectly. And what we are going to do is that we are going to do something for farmers where we can leave the farmer somehow in charge. The farmer knows that he is not going to hire a murderer. ”
You don’t need us to tell you that Trump’s second mandate immigration policies have never been to suppress violent criminals from the country. It is another arm of its remuneration system.
Although a large part of Trump’s mass deportations agenda is rooted in Stephen Miller’s racism and paranoia about a great replacement, it is also clear that Trump sees it as a hug to go after the states and cities led by elected democrats. These are, conveniently, the only places with sanctuary policies. Efforts to retain federal funding from municipalities and states that do not respect the Trump administration deportation crusade are already underway.
Senators make Trump auctions – mainly on time
A week ago, perhaps there were a dozen Senate Republicans who had concerns about the “big and beautiful” Trump bill. On Saturday evening, only two voted the motion to move it forward – meaning. Thom Tillis (R-NNC) and Rand Paul (R-KY). Tillis, as you may already know, quickly drawn a main threat from the president, and just as quickly declared that he will no longer present himself to his functions anyway.
So what happened to all other senators?
Dave Dayen at the American perspective has a partial response. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), one of the skeptics of the bill, obtained a pack of favors in a version of the bill that appeared on Saturday.
The federal part of Medicaid payment would be increased for “the state with the highest separate poverty directive”. It’s Alaska. Their share would increase 25% above that of a typical state.
Other programs include advantages for “non -contiguous states”, referring to Alaska and Hawaii. This includes an exemption from work requirements for SNAP, an increase in health insurance reimbursement rates to select health care providers and a derogation from cost sharing provisions, by which a State must contribute to the financing of SNAP.
Other gifts for Murkowski included an extended tax deduction for the captains of whale boles.
Murkowski voted for the request to continue on Saturday evening.
Subsequently, the Senate parliamentarian eliminated some of these favors for Alaska. Maybe Murkowski will now vote not on the final adoption of the bill. We do not count on this and, whatever, the head of the majority of the Senate John Thune (R-SD) can spare a vote.
Voting-a-rama
This morning, the Senate launched its “voting-a-rama”, another term for its consecutive votes on a series of amendments to Megabill. The first vote focused on the question of whether the Senate republicans can use a problematic budgetary gadget to try to give the impression that the cost of 3.8 billions of dollars to extend Trump’s tax reductions in 2017 for the wealthy will not add to the deficit.
My colleague Emine Yücel reported on the whole program a few months ago: “ They are engaged in cunning ”: what the Republicans Sen really try to do with their magic mathematics cut in tax cut
It will update us on the details of today’s procedures here in our live blog, if you want to follow or catch up.
The Senate bill reduces Medicaid even more than the Bill of the Chamber
An assessment of the Congress Office Budget reveals that 11.8 million people would lose their health insurance as part of the latest version – nearly a million people more than loses it under the version of the Chamber.
Bill Will Tax Wind and solar
A sneaky provision to reduce the cost of the invoice will not only end federal support for wind and solar projects – it will impose new taxes for them.
Louisiana hospitals are desperately trying to attract Mike Johnson’s attention
Each hospital in the state of Louisiana has sent a letter, reported by Politico, to the president of the Mike Johnson Chamber (R-La) on Saturday warning that the Senate bill, which his room will soon take, will be a disaster for his original state. He “reflects an annual loss estimated at more than $ 4 billion in Total Medicaid funding for Louisiana health care providers,” said the letter.
Pam Bondi draws three prosecutors of January 6 without explanation
Ryan Reilly in NBC:
At least three federal prosecutors who worked on cases against rioters on January 6 were dismissed on Friday by the Ministry of Justice, according to more than half a dozen current and former familiar officials with layoffs.
A copy of one of the letters of dismissal observed by NBC News was signed by the Attorney General Pam Bondi, informing the beneficiary that they were “withdrawn from the federal service in force immediately”. No reason for withdrawal was indicated in the letter.
Accuser Key Abrego García goes for free
The star witness of the Trump administration in his pursuits of Kilmar Abrego García, Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes, was to be expelled, but is now free after cooperating with the government. Documents and testimonies suggest that a large part of the prosecutors against Abrego García was based on the testimony of Reyes, the Washington Post reported.
The administrator Trump released Jose Hernandez Reyes because he can testify against Abrego Garcia.hernandez, who was expelled 5 times, was also arrested for: – With a handgun; – cocaine mosses; – Illuque transport of migrants; and – drawing a pistol.
[image or embed]– Bill Gueskin (@ bgrueskin.bsky.social) June 28, 2025 at 10:09 p.m.
Anti-Muslim attacks against Mamdani continue
The representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) suggested that Mamdani’s victory means that New Yorkers “forgot” on September 11.
Trump, on the other hand, made the fully foreseeable threat to retain federal funding from New York if Mamdani won in November. “I cannot imagine it, but let’s say this, if he comes in, I will be president and he will have to do the right thing or if they do not get money,” Trump told Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. “He has to do the right thing.”
Mamdani, for his part, reiterated in response to the threat of Trump that he would maintain the status of the city of the New York sanctuary.
“It is a policy that had been previously defended by Democrats and Republicans, until the fear of this current mayor,” he told Mamdani, Kristen Welker from NBC. “And this is a policy that we have seen guarantees that New Yorkers can get out of the shadows and in all the life of the city to which they belong, and it is the one that I will be proud to defend.”
More here of politico, axios and the own Hunter Walker of TPM.
Federal agents explode an explosive device outside the house with children inside
Dara Kerr at The Guardian:
Friday, federal agents made their way in a residential house in Huntington Park, California. The video of the security camera obtained by the local NBC station showed that border patrol agents setting up an explosive device near the house door, then exploding it – causing a broken window. A dozen armed agents in full tactical equipment, then loaded to the house.
Jenny Ramirez, who lives in the house with her boyfriend and children one year old and six, told NBC through tears that it was one of the noisiest explosions she had heard in her life.
“I said to them,” You didn’t have to do that, you frightened my son, my baby “, said Ramirez.
Ramirez told the Guardian that all those who lived in the house were American citizens. The agents told him that they were looking for his boyfriend, she said.
Viktor Orbán tries to close pride; He turns into spectacularly
Innovative authoritarian leader in Hungary Viktor Orbán threatened with “clear legal consequences” for anyone participated in the Budapest parade on Saturday. This threat only transformed the LGBTQ celebration into a protest against its government. More than 100,000 people arose. The police were held passively.
Orbán seems to face a real electoral threat from a central-right challenger, Peter Magyar, during this year’s elections. Magyar, also conservative, seemed to offer oblique support to the event, reported the Times, writing on social networks that Orbán was trying to “turn Hungarian against the Hungarian, in order to create fear and divide us”.
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