Yeah,
AF brought this up in another thread by posting
Pat Buchannon's XEET.
And my reaction was to reference Trump from 2016
... and I noted that Trump finally figured out the ratio of good people to bad people and realized the good people were the lifeblood of the current American way of life.
I suspect he was being warned about things like crops rotting in the fields that wouldn't make it to produce bins in grocery stores - and when that happened there were going to be common folk with pitchforks coming looking for him.
My bet is that most people supporting the "election concept" of "immigration raids" that Trump ran on, were focused on those immigrants that "brought drugs, brought crime, and were rapists". Who wouldn't want those people caught, prosecuted, convicted and deported? It's when DHS implemented a daily quota of 1,000 arrests per day, recently raised to 3,000 daily arrests, that they had to start going after low-hanging fruit rather than the criminal element that the public expected them to pursue. The reality is that there just isn't enough of the criminal element to fulfill a 3,000 arrests per day quota. They were chasing farm workers across fields, raiding meat-packing plants, arresting lawn-mowing workers, nannies, seamstresses - people that had been in the US for years and seen as upstanding members of the communities they lived in. The business that hired these immigrants noticed and complained.
If I'm taking Trump's words seriously, the attempt to demonize undocumented workers as "invaders" has failed.