Tonight, I’m announcing a nationwide and international multimillion-dollar ad campaign warning illegal aliens to leave our country NOW or face deportation with the inability to return to the US. This serves as a strong warning to criminal illegal aliens to not come to America.
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) February 18, 2025
The Trump Administration tells us that its masked ICE agents are after “criminal illegal aliens, the worst of the worst.” However, multiple studies have shown that native-born Americans have higher crime rates than foreign-born ones, including undocumented immigrants. Will Kristi soon escort native-born citizens to foreign gulags?
We were told that the masked men are after the baddest of the bad. Why are they grabbing workers without any serious alleged offenses?
Anyone who has watched programs such as 60 Minutes since February has heard Secretary Noem repeat her carrot and stick “public service” announcement. Her little speech ominously suggests that if you are an undocumented resident, you should leave immediately so that you can be let back in at some distant time in the future.
Following Noem’s recurring announcements, it has been reported that approximately 45% of the agricultural workforce in Ventura County, California, has stopped working. Most are still in America but hiding from ICE. This one county generates $1.6 billion in annual crop sales.
What happens in February 2026 when the farmland in the Midwest is frozen and half the laborers in the sunny states (Florida, Texas, Arizona, and California) who typically harvest lettuce, beans, Brussels sprouts, peas, carrots, pears, oranges, and grapes are missing?
Will we need to IMPORT more food from Mexico? Will the 25% tariff rate on Mexican goods LOWER OUR FOOD COSTS? Trump says that grocery stores and other businesses will “eat the cost of tariffs.” What about that law of supply and demand? Will Trump sign another executive order to overturn the law of supply and demand?
The current price per pound for iceberg lettuce is $1.40. With the most common lettuce and others, such as Brussels sprouts, rotting in the fields, will the law of supply and demand, combined with the cost of imported lettuce after the tariffs, result in a price of $2.00 or $2.50 in February 2026? Fresh blackberries are now $6 a pound. What will they be in February 2026?
About 38% of construction workers in Texas are foreign-born, and 23% of all workers are undocumented. In a booming state like Texas, who will build the new homes in Dallas, Houston, and Austin?
The Trump DOGE brain trust will undoubtedly find an answer…
