‘I Don’t Expect Mass Deportations’: Texas Congresswoman Expects Trump’s Threats to Fizzle
Migrants are key to US agriculture and other key industries
Although Donald Trump’s long-vowed to move forward with mass deportations of immigrants in the United States, a prominent Democratic congresswoman said she doesn’t expect those promises to amount to much.
Trump employed racist and xenophobic rhetoric during the campaign to pledge that he would deport potentially tens of millions of migrants living in the United States.
And that promise was a prominent rallying point this summer during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wis, where Republicans held aloft signs saying, “Mass deportations.”
However, economists, political analysts, and others have warned of severe damage to the US economy by removing so many workers critical to agriculture and other key industries.
Because of that, Rep Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat from the border state of Texas, believes this talk of mass deportations will amount to very little.
“I don't expect mass deportation,” she said. “I think it sounds good and they look like the tough guys and we know that has been their brand. Basically look like the bullies that they are.
“When you start to get into the nitty-gritty and talk about details that’s when they are like we didn’t realize this or that or even when you start to talk about the cost. When we started to ramp up what the cost will look like for us to effectuate this but then also look at the cost to our economy,” she added. “I just don’t really see it happening.”
Crockett noted that she serves on the House Agriculture Committee and has spoken with “countless farmers” who talk about the need for migrant workers.
“Unless your viewers are planning to send their kids to school so they can go work on the farms then God bless, we can make sure we keep American agriculture going,” Crockett said. “The reality is that’s not who has been working the farms in recent years. It’s been these migrants. When we look at our hospitality it has been migrants.”
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