Chuck Darwin on Nostr: We’ve now learned that Donald Trump will appoint Stephen Miller as his deputy chief ...
We’ve now learned that Donald Trump will appoint Stephen Miller as his deputy chief of staff for policy,
and has picked Tom Homan, his former head of ICE, as his new “border czar.”
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem will be Trump’s Homeland Security secretary.
🆘 That’s a trio of anti-immigrant hard-liners, and these choices suggest that Trump is very much going to act on his threat to carry out mass deportations.
Paul Krugman of The New York Times has a great new column arguing that these mass deportations, if carried out, will cause a large spike in inflation and produce other terrible consequences.
How will Trump voters react to that? How will Trump himself try to make it all disappear? Today, we’re talking to Paul Krugman about all this. Great to have you back on, Paul.
Paul Krugman: Great to be back on, if not the circumstances.
Sargent: Indeed. Stephen Miller will be high up in the White House, and he’s the primary architect of Trump’s agenda of mass deportations, carried out with giant camps and possibly the military.
Tom Homan, the incoming “border czar,” has confirmed that mass deportations will be attempted.
You wrote that this could have a catastrophic effect on grocery prices in addition to other prices. Can you talk about all that?
Krugman: Yeah. There’s a lot that people don’t understand about the role of immigrants in the U.S. economy.
It is something like maybe 8 million undocumented workers in the United States, something like 5 percent of the workforce.
You say, OK, that would be pretty bad if we lose that, but how bad could it be?
And the answer is that they are not evenly distributed. There are certain occupations that are really very heavily immigrant, certain jobs that are very heavily filled by immigrants, many of them undocumented.
Those include in particular ... top of the list would be #food. Agricultural workers, about three quarters are immigrants and probably about half of them are undocumented. Meat packing is probably between 30 and 50 percent undocumented immigrants. ❌So the whole food supply chain is reliant on people who are going to be rounded up and put in camps.
https://newrepublic.com/article/188346/transcript-paul-krugman-badly-trump-voters-scammed
and has picked Tom Homan, his former head of ICE, as his new “border czar.”
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem will be Trump’s Homeland Security secretary.
🆘 That’s a trio of anti-immigrant hard-liners, and these choices suggest that Trump is very much going to act on his threat to carry out mass deportations.
Paul Krugman of The New York Times has a great new column arguing that these mass deportations, if carried out, will cause a large spike in inflation and produce other terrible consequences.
How will Trump voters react to that? How will Trump himself try to make it all disappear? Today, we’re talking to Paul Krugman about all this. Great to have you back on, Paul.
Paul Krugman: Great to be back on, if not the circumstances.
Sargent: Indeed. Stephen Miller will be high up in the White House, and he’s the primary architect of Trump’s agenda of mass deportations, carried out with giant camps and possibly the military.
Tom Homan, the incoming “border czar,” has confirmed that mass deportations will be attempted.
You wrote that this could have a catastrophic effect on grocery prices in addition to other prices. Can you talk about all that?
Krugman: Yeah. There’s a lot that people don’t understand about the role of immigrants in the U.S. economy.
It is something like maybe 8 million undocumented workers in the United States, something like 5 percent of the workforce.
You say, OK, that would be pretty bad if we lose that, but how bad could it be?
And the answer is that they are not evenly distributed. There are certain occupations that are really very heavily immigrant, certain jobs that are very heavily filled by immigrants, many of them undocumented.
Those include in particular ... top of the list would be #food. Agricultural workers, about three quarters are immigrants and probably about half of them are undocumented. Meat packing is probably between 30 and 50 percent undocumented immigrants. ❌So the whole food supply chain is reliant on people who are going to be rounded up and put in camps.
https://newrepublic.com/article/188346/transcript-paul-krugman-badly-trump-voters-scammed