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It was always a lie in support of longstanding bigotry The people who voted for him were ok with it Most remain so unless a friend or relative was affected

It’s bad for the economy to deport people. The arguments were a permission structure for racists, a chance to feel like a victim and punch down. And rich rightwingers and ‘moderates’ got to seem like the champions of low wage workers and avoid culpability for our winner take all system.

Wait so you’re saying trump has no clue how economics work? Yeah we knew that

Bad at the economy/jobs, bad at military strategy/Iran, bad at cost cutting/DOGE. Sigh 😔

His mismanagement is finally finding the limits of the resilience of the American economy.

Lots of young Americans can now go into roofing!

That may be the core economic pitch but the major selling point for Trump’s evil deportation plan was racism. Lilly white skin is what he wants here in the US.

I wonder how many of the job "losses" are people with refugee status or who are waiting for regularization choosing to fade into the gray-market economy before they get kidnapped at work.

Hmmm. 🤔 bsky.app/profile/bbko...

It is almost like the economy is powered by its workers, irrespective of the color of those workers' skin.

Do you know what the deal is with what seems to be a consistent up-down cycle *squints* twice(?) a year?

This should be framed and every one who supports this out of ignorance should be made to read and understand it.

Conservatives are fantastic at simplifying things in order to win arguments, usually via thought terminating cliche'. The problem is that the world is not simple, and thinking of it in such matters makes you shit terrible at actually running things.

Economic actors are both consumers and producers? You're just telling us now?

Ahhh well nevertheless

We seem to offshore a LOT of tech jobs, in industries that are not primarily tech. Unsurprisingly, not a priority.

Immigrants bring beauty to our culture, tax dollars to our coffers, and make much better citizens than your average Republican insurrectionist.

who could have predicted this dot jpeg or whatever

There's a small rise in foreign-born employment. I surmise that they've been trying to prove employment to avoid getting deported, and there's no inverse for native-born hiring. I see two ironies there.

This is my surprised face.

If it makes you feel better, August is when Mullin v. Doe takes full effect and hundreds of thousands of previously legal immigrants with jobs will lose qualifications to work and start getting deported. So likely next month's report could look worse. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

TPS for Haitians officially ends, putting thousands out of work and in limboA federal judge allowed the Trump administration to terminate temporary protected status for 350,000 Haitians, meaning they are likely to lose their jobs and be at risk of deportation.www.washingtonpost.com

entire presidency of horns.aiff

Am sure American born citizens grow up to expect to get jobs picking the strawberry fields 12-14 hours a day with pay around $5/day. Yeah, this is the American dream.

damn, who could've seen this coming except for anyone

Right! Rip their consumer base out by the roots. Fewer manager jobs managing them, trickle down is real. Also DEI roll backs are hurting white men!! They were getting a boost with the rebalancing

It's as if a lot of immigrants worked key input jobs and slowing the input activity affected everything negatively downstream.

The MAGA reply will be we need to do more deportations