Trump floats plan for undocumented farm and hotel workers to work legally in the U.S.

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

April 10, 2025, 5:47 PM EDT / Updated April 10, 2025, 5:51 PM EDT


President Donald Trump suggested at a Cabinet meeting Thursday that undocumented people working on farms and in hotels would be allowed to leave the country and return as legal workers if their employers vouched for them. Trump said at the meeting with reporters present that “we have to take care of our farmers, the hotels and, you know, the various places where they tend to, where they tend to need people.”

"So a farmer will come in with a letter concerning certain people, saying they’re great, they’re working hard. We’re going to slow it down a little bit for them, and then we’re going to ultimately bring them back. They’ll go out. They’re going to come back as legal workers."

It was unclear what he meant by “slow it down a little bit for them.” The administration has been pouring resources into arresting, detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants to fulfill Trump’s campaign pledge to conduct a history-making mass deportation of immigrants from the United States.

Trump said the administration is going to work with people if they “go out ... in a nice way.” “We’re going to work with them right from the beginning on, trying to get them back in legally. So it gives you real incentive. Otherwise they never come back. They’ll never be allowed once a certain period of time goes by, which is probably going to be 60 days,” he said.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-farmworkers-hotel-workers-undocumented-legal-rcna200722

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Fire. Aim. Ready..

[Hugin]

1. So, it's kinda gonna work like...

Slavery.

Around payday those lists would be turned over to Noem’s goons. They’ve got quotas to keep.

[TommyT139]

3. Yep

And even if the workers don't get ICEd, that's a vast amount of leverage the plantation owners employers have. Don't like spraying pesticides? Don't like your wages? Don't like getting groped and assaulted? Want to work somewhere else? Time to call the goons.

[Hugin]

6. Besides being one of the most self-dealing schemes pitched in a cabinet meeting... Ever.

It plainly discloses that the right hand doesn’t know what the far-right hand is doing.

[Blackjackdavey]

13. While your observations are indeed astute

they describe the status quo. This isn't Trump's plan, this is someone finally getting through to him that this was a wedge issue, not one that was ever meant to seriously threaten the MAGA voter's indentured servants.

[maxrandb]

12. Yes, and only "Red, racist MAGAt" voting areas will enjoy such "generosity"

Hell, they may even invoke some arcane law that requires Blue States to apprehend and return any "farm workers" that escape.

Everything old is new again!

[OrlandoDem2]

2. Wait. So now we want cheap labor and we are going to help illegals become legal?

But other illegals are still illegal.

Because farmers voted for their cult leader. Fuck every single one of them.

And because wealthy hotel chains need cheap labor too. And their industry leaders voted for the cult. Fuck them also.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. "we are going to help illegals become legal?" - It's all a ruse...

There are those who HAVE BEEN in the country "legally", with proper visas, green cards, and other required paperwork, and even those BORN HERE, making them "natural born citizens"... yet they have STILL been rounded up, and illegally deported without any "due process".

And when the government is confronted with those facts, they respond with "Oops. Too late. We no longer have jurisdiction, so that's that.".

[Astraea]

4. Bad news

Most of the people who voted for Trump re:immigration don't care if they're here legally or not.

They aren't pasty white people and they speak with an accent, therefore they have no right to be here.

[MayReasonRule]

20. ...pasty white people...

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That's a broad disparaging brush.

Currently, the percentage of Democrats who identify as white is around 56% to 64% depending upon the source of info.

Source One

Source Two

You've just maligned the current majority of the Democratic Party.

Perhaps you'd like to reword and re-frame your assertion.
I find it wholly objectionable.

[neohippie]

7. But they're all murderers, rapists, terrorists and gang members

Wait I thought they were all a danger to national security and life and property

I though that it was an invasion

[twodogsbarking]

8. Blind man driving the bus.

[everyonematters]

9. This is what has made sense all along. The Republicans have refused to go along with anything like this.

The Republican mantra is that they all should be deported and that's it. What would make even more sense, is to just process them where they are.

[Vinca]

10. Well, isn't that special? Farms are mostly in red states and Dear Leader's business is hotels.

[Bengus81]

11. Hell...they probably are STILL working illegally at his shit hole resorts

This shit won't go over well with his MAGA zealots.

[33taw]

14. If Trump says it is great - they will fall in line. Independent thinking is not their strong suit.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. Changing undocumented immigrants into migrant workers?

I hope his base raises hell for him backtracking. Guess the big hotel owners and ag businesses finally got through his thick skull they need low paid workers. I wonder if the big chicken processors will be included.

[edhopper]

16. Sub title: Trump suddenly realizes

his hotels and resorts are losing their workers.

[mdbl]

17. Of course his Hotel staff are probably undocumented as well as Mara Lardo workers

Ooops, can't get rid of them!

[travelingthrulife]

18. Of course he does and the tariffs go down the memory hole for farmers and hotel

owners.

[Wonder Why]

19. When it comes to Krasnov, money talks. The more the money, the more he listens.

[kimbutgar]

21. What do you want to bet he has a lot of undocumented workers working on his properties?