It's a weird political syndrom

 

JEFFREY ST. CLAIR>>

Greg Moes, a South Dakota dairy farmer who voted for Trump, told CNN that about half of his workers are immigrants, many of them undocumented, and that he’s confident Trump’s mass deportation scheme won’t include farm workers: “How are they going to do it? If they round them up within two days, we will not have food. There will not be food anywhere. That’s what I predict. Nobody will be filling the shelves. Nobody will be producing food. If once we have to shut down and be gone, it’s never coming back. We have to trust in our officials that are put in place.”

+ It’s a weird political syndrome where people vote for someone who repeatedly pledges to take actions that might put them out of business, believing that the politicians couldn’t possibly mean what they say…

+ In testimony before Congress this week, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council said that Trump’s mass deportation plan “would cost $968 billion in total” and likely “cause economic chaos. Reichlin-Melnick said, “We estimate that, on average, a single deportation cost the U.S. government in today’s fund money slightly under $24,000…As millions are expelled, the U.S. population and labor force would shrink—so too would the economy… Houses would become more expensive, as would groceries, restaurants, travel, and childcare. Every American would feel the pinch of inflation. After all, we estimate that a mass deportation campaign would lead to a loss in total GDP of 4.2 to 6.8% at minimum, as much as the Great Recession, and just like then, many Americans would lose their jobs In fact, a single worksite raid in 2018 under the Trump administration at a beef plant in Tennessee led to ground beef prices rising by 25 cents for the year that the plant was out of operation following the raid.”