Donald Trump Sketches Plan to Deport Many and Recall Some Migrants for Farm, Hotel Jobs

President Donald Trump used his cabinet meeting today to outline his plans to recall some of the illegals he is deporting from jobs in the farm and hospitality sectors.

“It is a very big self-deportation operation that we’re starting,” he told the cabinet, adding:

We’re going to work with people so that if they go out in a nice [legal] way and go back to their country, we’re going to work with them right from the beginning on trying to get them back in legally. So it gives [them] a real incentive [to leave]. Otherwise, they could never come back.

The exit and return process may be 60 days, Trump suggested.

In a conversation with Kristi Noem, chief of the Department of Homeland Security, Trump said:

We’re also going to work with farmers that if they have strong recommendations for their farms for certain people, we’re going to let them stay in for a while and work with the farmers and go through a process, a legal process.

But we have to take care of our farmers and hotels and, you know, various, various places where they need the people. And we’re going to work with you very carefully on that. 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 [deportation and enforcement] down a little bit for them, and then we’re going to ultimately bring them back.

“They’ll go out [and] they’re going to come back as legal workers. … I think it’s very important,” Trump added.

“Thousands of people have already self-deported,” Noem said. “We have 20, 21 million people that need to go home because they’re here breaking our laws,” she said. “So we’re encouraging [illegal migrants] people … to register, and we’re working on the resources and funding to buy them a plane ticket to send them home,” she added.

Trump is facing pressure from real estate investors and hotel operators whose stock market wealth slumps when pay raises reduce projected profits.

“I’m not super worried about this because I’m skeptical anything’s going to happen,” Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors less migration and more productivity, said.

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