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Trump Shifts Deportation Focus, Pausing Raids on Farms, Hotels and Eateries

RetiredAtLast said:
It's easy if the results are misleading. The H1-B visa is an employer-sponsored visa, in which the prospective employer certifies that it needs a foreign individual because that individual has special skills and such skills are not available in the current US labor market. And the fact that there are "only" 350,000 Indian registrations for it isn't a terrible thing. Only 121,000 Indian registrations were moved forward for consideration for 85,000 visas. For this year, the 85,000 cap has already been reached.

How many registrations were there from all of the other countries? Oh, and in 2024, before Trump was elected, before DOGE existed, there was a 28% drop in the number of registrations.
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Did my link not answer your question? If you need more info - YOU can look up declines in grad students, healthcare workers and STEM. Have fun.
RetiredAtLast said:
So we'll only have $169 billion in foreign tourists. Given the rioting being done by the leftists and anti-Semites this year, I'll be surprised if we even get that number.

Your claims and the numbers you use to support them don't worry - or impress - me.
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Again, did my link not answer your question?
If my business declined over 20% in one year, I'd be concerned. You do you.
 
trixare4kids said:
After reading this thread, it seems the extreme anti-Trumps are disappointed ICE is being directed to go in a new direction, much easier on farm workers, hotel and restaurant workers.

It makes fiscal sense that they would go easier if businesses are suffering. Trump has already acknowledged that these policies were affecting farmers and hospitality businesses by removing "very good, long-time workers" who are difficult to replace. It's economically understandable why Trump has changed course. It's a matter of preventing economic disruptions. Makes more sense to go after criminal activities like human trafficking and drug smuggling.
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Are we supposed to believe thus just occurred to them?

If that's true, they are really, really incompetent.
 
Deuce said:
Are they? It's not like you ever actually learned any kind of details about them. Someone circulated some list on the internet and you just... believed them. LOL.
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The list I referenced was from a government contracting tracking organization. It showed all the program factors including the applicant's original grant justification. You can spend some time checking it out, if you're really curious.
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lynnwinslow said:
Did my link not answer your question?
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Yes, it did. But it didn't show the panic you seem to feel.
lynnwinslow said:
If my business declined over 20% in one year, I'd be concerned.
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It declined to about the normal annual level. If you expanded your business on the basis of one higher year, you'd be a fool.
 
lynnwinslow said:
Did my link not answer your question? If you need more info - YOU can look up declines in grad students, healthcare workers and STEM
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I did. They're included in the 85,000. Take some time to read up on the H1-B visa. You could learn something.
 
trixare4kids said:
After reading this thread, it seems the extreme anti-Trumps are disappointed ICE is being directed to go in a new direction, much easier on farm workers, hotel and restaurant workers.

It makes fiscal sense that they would go easier if businesses are suffering. Trump has already acknowledged that these policies were affecting farmers and hospitality businesses by removing "very good, long-time workers" who are difficult to replace. It's economically understandable why Trump has changed course. It's a matter of preventing economic disruptions. Makes more sense to go after criminal activities like human trafficking and drug smuggling.
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I can't believed you typed this with a straight face. The impact on these industries was 100% predictable.
 
reflechissez said:
I can't believed you typed this with a straight face. The impact on these industries was 100% predictable.
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MAGA always seems to have trouble noticing they are being ridiculed... libs are "disappointed"
 
RetiredAtLast said:
The list I referenced was from a government contracting tracking organization. It showed all the program factors including the applicant's original grant justification. You can spend some time checking it out, if you're really curious.
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And how many can you point at as being some kind of problem? What percentage of total USAID spending is a problem for you, and why does that justify cutting off food aid to starving children?
 
Deuce said:
And how many can you point at as being some kind of problem?
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Do you have some kind of delusion that I'm going to go through that list and analyze each one so that you can make some smart-ass comment about my analysis?
 
trixare4kids said:
After reading this thread, it seems the extreme anti-Trumps are disappointed ICE is being directed to go in a new direction, much easier on farm workers, hotel and restaurant workers.
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The ones who are really going to be disappointed are those Trumpers who hate Hispanic immigrants. Trump promised to get rid of them all, now he’s reneging on that promise.

trixare4kids said:
It makes fiscal sense that they would go easier if businesses are suffering. Trump has already acknowledged that these policies were affecting farmers and hospitality businesses by removing "very good, long-time workers" who are difficult to replace. It's economically understandable why Trump has changed course. It's a matter of preventing economic disruptions.
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Yes, but what it proves is that Trump is acknowledging that he either is an idiot or that he has been lying to you all along by trying to make people believe that most immigrants are murders and rapists and only some are good people. You can choose which. Hint, the latter is the correct answer.

Trump has always known that the immigrant workers are needed in our economy he’s just been using them as political pawns because he knows many Republicans hate Hispanic immigrants.


trixare4kids said:
Makes more sense to go after criminal activities like human trafficking and drug smuggling.
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Which has nothing to do with immigration. BTW…that’s part of what the California National Guard was doing before Trump ordered them to LA.
 
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RetiredAtLast said:
It isn't a "culture war whim" to cancel wasteful spending at a time of $36 trillion debt. The silly programs of USAID are well known now, and they are indefensible. But less well-known are the research programs cut, and the reasons for them. For example, a university research program for the treatment of a specific brain cancer was cut. But, as I pointed out in another thread here, there are at least half a dozen other university and cancer center programs on-going into the same cancer, and at least as many are already in clinical trials. Cutting one of many such programs isn't a "culture war whim."
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I mean soft power is quite defensible actually.
Not really hard to defend usaid at all.

perhaps you dont understand it because its not bombing someone as an answer
RetiredAtLast said:
If their "opinions" become militant actions (e.g., Mohamed Khalil) they may well have their visas, granted for the purpose of academic study, withdrawn. And why shouldn't they? Would you tolerate an openly hostile guest in your home?
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Plasmaball said:
I mean soft power is quite defensible actually.
Not really hard to defend usaid at all.

perhaps you dont understand it because its not bombing someone as an answer
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The Christian right has nothing but contempt and resentment towards poor people. Especially if they are foreign or brown.
 
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