{"id":138834,"date":"2019-05-20T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138834"},"modified":"2019-05-20T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T01:04:09","slug":"illegal-immigrants-are-terrible-except-when-i-er-the-farmers-need-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/illegal-immigrants-are-terrible-except-when-i-er-the-farmers-need-them.html","title":{"rendered":"Illegal immigrants are terrible! Except when I, er, the FARMERS need them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pity the poor <del>construction company<\/del>\u00a0<del>country club owner<\/del> <del>hotel operator<\/del> <em>farmer<\/em> who isn&#8217;t able to hire undocumented workers. Because, you know, it&#8217;s\u00a0<em>hard.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Fox News, here&#8217;s what Our President had to say about the E-Verify system, used to help validate SSN and other job applicant information to ensure that the person in question is in the country legally:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I used it when I built the hotel down the road on Pennsylvania Avenue. I use a very strong E-Verify system. And we would go through 28 people \u2014 29, 30 people \u2014 before we found one that qualified. So it\u2019s a very tough thing to ask a farmer to go through that. So in a certain way, I speak against myself, but you also have to have a world of some practicality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Donald Trump campaigned on how hordes of illegals were storming across the border to, depending on the speech, (a) kill and rape and sell drugs, (b) lounge about and get free stuff, or (c) steal all our jobs. And he&#8217;s been beating that drum pretty much every day since taking office.<\/p>\n<p>But here he is, admitting that there are American employers who maybe have a need to hire undocumented workers &#8212; as it&#8217;s been documented that his hotels and golf resorts repeatedly did, prior to starting\u00a0<em>this year<\/em>\u00a0to use E-Verify.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donald-Trump-in-front-of-a-flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134787 aligncenter\" title=\"Donald Trump in front of a flag\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donald-Trump-in-front-of-a-flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donald-Trump-in-front-of-a-flag.jpg 506w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donald-Trump-in-front-of-a-flag-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donald-Trump-in-front-of-a-flag-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 85vw, 506px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And given how American farmers are suddenly realizing that &#8220;Tariff Man&#8221; isn&#8217;t doing them any great favors (as opposed to the farmers of Russia who are offering the take up the slack with China), it&#8217;s maybe no surprise that he&#8217;s suddenly showing sympathy toward how the government makes their lives so &#8220;very tough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And as for all those immigrants that <del>he<\/del> they might need to hire &#8212; well, they&#8217;re still all rapists \/ mooches \/ enemies of the working man, depending on which speech you&#8217;re listening to. Except, perhaps, when they&#8217;re being hired by certain\u00a0<del>construction companies<\/del>\u00a0<del>country club owners<\/del> <del>hotel operators<\/del> <em>farmers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you want to know more?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2019\/05\/trump-undocumented-workers-ok-sometimes.html\">Trump: Undocumented workers OK sometimes.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/in-fox-news-interview-trump-expresses-concern-about-e-verify\/2019\/05\/19\/3495ef74-7aa8-11e9-a66c-d36e482aa873_story.html?utm_term=.ed13e5a6db0a\">In Fox News interview, Trump expresses concern about E-Verify &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/donald-trumps-demand-for-a-border-wall-shut-down-the-government-at-the-same-time-his-company-was-firing-undocumented-workers\/2019\/01\/26\/8cf75d66-20c5-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html?utm_term=.3512b5aa57d9\">Trump\u2019s golf course employed undocumented workers \u2014 and then fired them amid showdown over border wall &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/how-do-i\/verify-employment-eligibility-e-verify\">Verify Employment Eligibility (E-Verify) | Homeland Security<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald thinks E-Verify might be too hard for everyone to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,10,17,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-business","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-homeland-security","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donald-Trump-in-front-of-a-flag.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38402,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/trust-but-verify-only-works-if-you-can-actually-verify.html","url_meta":{"origin":138834,"position":0},"title":"Trust but verify only works if you can actually verify","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Aug-13 3:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Schneier's analysis is all correct so far as it goes, and in its fundamental analysis that society doesn't work without trust and when you get lied to too often, you simply can't trust.The problem is, there is no reliable (trustworthy) mechanism to verify that trust is well-placed in anything resembling\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137583,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/03\/trumps-shutdown-is-affecting-national-defense-against-illegal-immigration.html","url_meta":{"origin":138834,"position":1},"title":"Trump&#039;s Shutdown is affecting national defense AGAINST illegal immigration","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Jan-19 6:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The E-Verify system is currently kaput until the shutdown is over. 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