And do you think the administration could have gone about this in a much better way than what they did? It’s all about the cruelty with this administration and their followers. It’s not about what is productive.
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Why yes, I think Congress could have resolved this problem long ago.
Tough for Trump without 60 votes in the Senate.
So he makes a big show of it fills news media with the story as a warning to all. They will not get away with this scam.
Reportedly, the company tried to obtain visas but ran into a wall - not too surprising in the current climate. So the point stands - reshoring desires and anti-immigration stance don’t play well with each other.
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I see no indication the Trump administration opposes legal immigration. Legal immigration seems to have opposition in Congress. Unions often worry about immigrants holding down wages and competing for jobs. Some prefer open borders instead.
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The “Big Beautiful Bill” takes health care away from immigrants even if they are here legally, as refugees or who have been granted asylum, among other things.
Trump’s administration has almost completely [banned refugee] resettlement, sought to [revoke temporary protected status] for hundreds of thousands [who have immigrated] to flee extreme conditions, eliminated the legal status of [thousands of international students]), arrested legal asylum seekers at their [immigration check-ins], [jailed other legal asylum seekers] in a maximum security prison in El Salvador, declared an [end to birthright citizenship] and revoked the legal status of nearly a million humanitarian parolees who had applied for legal entry using the [CBP One app].
The person most driving the immigration agenda is Stephen Miller, who has said he would like to see America with 100 million population, an end to most immigration of any kind, an end to birthright citizenship, severely reduced legal immigration, dramatically increased mass deportation, and who has repeated and reposted white nationalist sentiment on social platforms. He is Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Advisor and for all practical purposes is the highest ranking official when it comes to immigration policy other than Trump himself.
Your apologia is noted, and not accepted.
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Other than rounding up people who are in the country legally, detaining them for indefinite periods of time, and deporting some of them…yeah TFG is all about legal immigration! Get real.
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Aside from the incoherence of Donald’s administration on immigration/tariffs/re-industrialization, it is actions like this that make companies even less likely to invest substantial sums over years to build products in the U.S. With tariff rates bouncing around with the whims of Donald’s emotions and open hostility to foreign companies that actually try to build factories in the U.S., fewer and fewer will actually try. Of course, they will send out press releases and make announcements about investing untold billions to make Donald happy, but they will minimize money and resources spent.
The U.S. is becoming a command economy, and in command economies, one expends resources on relationships with the regime, not on productive activities.
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This does not seem correct. Do you have any links ?
It was pretty clear in the first administration, but now it’s blazingly obvious.
The macroeconomic effects to the US economy could well be startling were the Miller policies to be fully realized (yes, they’re not even half complete yet).
Pete
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Here’s a revealing quote -
“Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do this”
Miller is, and has always been, a despicable human.
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Yes. His immense power based on zip normal qualification is sickening tell for investors near anything he can touch, as he is now touching “everything”.
I first met him when he was still at Santa Monica High School, where he was famous for directly harassing gay guys in an ugly manner. I went to a public meeting to encounter him so as to better be able to understand the ugliness around him. I concluded that it would be best to simply tell people that he desperately needed help, would not get it, and was to be avoided and quarantined. I cannot imagine what motivates him other than an extremely ugly inborn mental formation. He is ignorant, arrogant, vicious, sadistic, unreliable, untrustworthy, and — let me ponder — despicably wicked. That he skyrocketed to the top of the Trump cohorts is a deadly dangerous sign of the times.
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Stephen Miller was livid. It was a couple of months after Donald Trump’s inauguration, and Mr. Miller, a senior White House adviser, believed that the federal government was not doing nearly enough to stem the tide of illegal immigration into the United States. In a relentless round of meetings, phone calls and emails, he reached deep into the federal bureaucracy and, according to a former Department of Homeland Security official, berated mid- and low-level bureaucrats inside the department. To keep their jobs, he told the officials, they needed to enforce a new policy that punished the families of undocumented immigrants by forcibly separating parents from their children.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/opinion/stephen-miller.html
"Why aren’t you at Home Depot? Why aren’t you at 7-Eleven?” he reportedly screamed at ICE officials.
The outcome has been apparent in the blizzard of executive orders during the restored president’s first months back in the White House. Miller purposely sought to “flood the zone” in a manner that would overwhelm the capacity of the courts – or the media – to respond.No order was more quintessentially Miller’s than that issued on the day of Trump’s second inauguration on 20 January, which attempted to cancel birthright citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants. The order was challenged in the courts and is now with the supreme court after the administration challenged the ability of lower courts to issue nationwide injunctions supporting a right that is guaranteed in the US constitution.
Miller’s anti-immigrant zeal has at times exceeded even that of Trump. According to the New York Times, the president told a campaign meeting last year that if it was up to Miller, there would only be 100 million people living in the US – and all of them would look like Miller.
. **Former Breitbart Editor: Stephen Miller is a white supremacist. I know, I was one too**.She was already a racist when she took a publishing job in Washington, DC. But when she became a reporter for Breitbart News, Katie McHugh says she was taken to new depths of hate with the help of Stephen Miller.
Emails show the two were in frequent contact between 2015 and 2016 while he was working for then Sen. Jeff Sessions and later on the Trump presidential campaign.
She was already a racist when she took a publishing job in Washington, DC. But when she became a reporter for Breitbart News, Katie McHugh says she was taken to new depths of hate with the help of Stephen Miller.
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Here’s another good write-up -
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The admin proposed making the citizen test harder. There is your clear opposition to legal immigration.
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But, they are selective about where the immigration should be from.
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From the article -
“Edlow also envisions an essay question on a subject such as, ‘What does it mean to be an American?’ or ‘Who was your favorite founding father?’ — ‘or something that is going to really show an attachment to the Constitution.’”
Show an attachment to the Constitution? That’s rich.
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Donald does not need Miller to act as his “id”. Donald is already near 100% “id”. My toddler exhibited more restraint, and on a regular basis, than Donald is capable of.
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Filed under, “too late.”
President Donald Trump on Sunday said foreign workers sent to the United States are “welcome” and he doesn’t want to “frighten off” investors, 10 days after hundreds of South Koreans were arrested at a work site in Georgia.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, the 79-year-old Republican wrote: “I don’t want to frighten off or disincentivize investment.”
WORK ACROSS AT LEAST 22 KOREAN PROJECTS IN THE US HALTED
The $4.3 billion joint venture battery facility, among the largest projects in Georgia and expected to create 8,500 jobs, was scheduled for completion later this year to supply battery cells to Hyundai’s nearby EV factory, Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America LLC (HMGMA).
Construction work on the site was suspended following the raid.
The incident has thrown Korea’s flagship investment projects in the US into disarray.
Sources said at least 22 other factory sites involving Korean business groups, in autos, shipbuilding, steel and electrical equipment, have been nearly halted.
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… and the latter seems to get the upper hand:
Adding new fees “creates disincentive to attract the world’s smartest talent to the US”, Deedy Das, partner at venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, wrote on X. “If the US ceases to attract the best talent, it drastically reduces its ability to innovate and grow the economy.”
The new fee could significantly push up costs for companies, particularly smaller tech firms and startups.
“Either the person is very valuable to the company and America, or they are going to depart and the company is going to hire an American,” Lutnick said at the briefing. “And that’s the point of immigration. Hire Americans and make sure the people coming in are the top, top people. Stop the nonsense.”
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… and creating havoc:
… Amazon’s internal guidance, posted just before 9 p.m. Pacific on Friday on its HR portal, warned employees: “If you have H-1B status and are in the US: Stay in the country for now, even if you have travel planned for the immediate future.”
The guidance also said: “If you have H-1B or H-4 status and are outside the US: Try to return before tomorrow’s deadline if possible.”
Amazon’s advisory added that anyone who cannot make it back in time should avoid attempting US reentry “until further guidance is provided.” …
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