Trump Promises Changes as Migrant Crackdown Depletes Workforce

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Source: Bloomberg

June 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM EDT
Updated on June 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM EDT


President Donald Trump conceded that his immigration crackdown was hurting US businesses and said policy changes will be made to address worker shortages. “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,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming,” he said.

The post seemed to mark a rare acknowledgment by Trump about risks to the world’s biggest economy as he seeks to ramp up deportations. Data last week showed the size of the US workforce shrunk in May, in part because of the biggest back-to-back decline in the number of foreign-born workers in the labor force since 2020.

“There is a growing concern around the current administration’s immigration policies” and the ripple effects it will have across the labor market, Aaron Jagdfeld, chief executive officer of Generac Holdings Inc., said in an interview last week, before Trump’s post. His Waukesha, Wisconsin-based company makes backup power equipment for residents and businesses. Companies that lose access to workers here on special exemption visas ultimately “have to hire people who are working for us, right?” Jagdfeld said.

Trump’s move also comes amid growing pushback over Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. Protests that began in the LA area — where more than 600 people have been arrested and demonstrators clashed with police — have spread to cities including Austin, Chicago and New York. In LA, the unrest was mostly confined to parts of downtown and nearby suburbs, but it drew a forceful response from Trump, who deployed National Guard troops and Marines to the city.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-12/trump-says-his-deportation-drive-is-sparking-concerns-over-jobs?srnd=homepage-americas

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I guess some of the MAGat business owners are starting to cry "uncle"? Severing the food supply.

[Captain Zero]

1. Sounds like Slave Holder Permits are coming

Fees due in crypto to DonOLD?
Tell me that couldn't possibly happen.

[LiberalLoner]

5. Also, no school for 90% of children, only work in the fields and mines for them.

[hamsterjill]

2. So, someone must've gotten ahold of that catheter

And twisted just a little. Not that I believe him, but I'm sure it hurt him a little to have to do this, and I'll enjoy that moment for a bit.

[republianmushroom]

3. The convicted felon, "Duh, did I do this ?"

[Bayard]

4. There's the problem

He makes no distinction between very good, long time workers, and criminals. Deport all those brown people!

[Prairie Gates]

9. The MAGA conceit is that if you entered without papers, you are a criminal by definition

Now the Dictator is saying something different, so the entire MAGA world will have to turn on a dime, like minor commissars suddenly praising Hitler's restraint after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. These people are in a cult of personality.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Will the old, sick, disabled be forced to join the workforce.

No SS or Medicare if we don't work.

[Shipwack]

19. Or they might use prison labor. nt

[Firestorm49]

7. I guess that it was too much to ask that they

research their motives and decisions before having to reverse themselves again. Oh, but wait - we’re talking about the most inept and incompetent cabinet in the history of our country.

[DallasNE]

8. TACO Time (So Soon)

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Things are playing out as expected by the critics, including myself.

So, how did Trump get this so wrong?

My guess is that none of the yes men Trump hired were willing to confront the policy and tell Trump what the likely outcome would be. And TACO time keeps happening for that very reason. So, here we go with TACO time again.

However, these mistakes are extremely costly and disruptive to the country. The same goes for the wasteful military parade on his birthday. UGH!

[ananda]

10. For some reason, probably Miller's view, he sees...

all immigrants as crimnals, and wants us to see them
that way also.

However... many of us already know who the real
criminals are, practically the entire Republican party.

[mzmolly]

11. He promised to deport 'criminals' not workers.

Let's hope the SOB doesn't change his mind ... again.

[tanyev]

12. I want to see Don Jr. and Eric out there picking strawberries.

[Deminpenn]

13. President Miller won't like this at all

nt

[SSJVegeta]

14. Not with stephen miller in charge...

[Codifer]

15. Prison labor coming.

Arbeit macht frei

[Nigrum Cattus]

16. How can anyone say "Trump Promises"

He is just trying get some support back, good luck with that

[surfered]

17. What an idiot. Gee, if only someone would have told him this would happen?

[BaronChocula]

18. Disregard anything you hear after the words

"trump promises..."

[wolfie001]

20. The overweight, diabetic tRUMP voters sure can't fill those jobs