The Donald Trump Score Card

Worksite immigration raids are supposed to free up jobs for citizens. Here's what really happens

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“They’re taking your jobs, they’re taking your jobs,” Trump told a crowd in Wilmington, N.C., on Sept. 21. “ Every job produced in this country over the last two years has gone to illegal aliens, every job, think of it.

“We’re going to save you. We’re going to save you. We’re going to save you.”

Every new job between 2022-2024 was not, in fact, filled by undocumented immigrants. Studies show actually deporting workers en masse from industries that rely on undocumented labor does little for U.S. workers. Giovanni Peri, a UC Davis economist who has studied the economic impacts of deportations in the 1930s and during the Obama administration, has found doing so actually reduces job opportunities for American-born workers.

That’s in part because many American workers, even those outside of immigrant-heavy industries, rely on the services generated by low-wage, undocumented labor — the costs of which would rise with mass deportations.

 

Trump officials vow to intensify immigration raids despite legal challenges, bad polls, public backlash

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"In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing the federal government to deport convicted criminals to "third countries" even if they lack a prior connection to those countries.

That same month, it also ruled 6 to 3 to limit the ability of federal district judges to issue nationwide orders blocking the president's policies, which was frequently a check on executive power."

 

Trump officials vow to intensify immigration raids despite legal challenges, bad polls, public backlash

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The budget bill infuses roughly $150 billion into Trump's immigration and border enforcement plans, including funding for ICE and Border Patrol staffing, building and operating immigrant detention facilities, and reimbursing states and local governments for immigration-related costs.

"We’re going to come harder and faster, and we’re going to take these criminals down with even more strength than we ever have before," Noem said at a news conference over the weekend. Trump, she added, “has a mandate from the American people to clean up our streets, to help make our communities safer.”

 

Trump and Putin: a couple of 3-day chuckleheads.

 

If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank
Jim Edwards
July 14, 2025

If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank

 

Trump Aides Scramble to Find an Escape From His Epstein Nightmare Before It Gets Worse

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The wider problem at all play here, according to a Sunday X post from Trump legal adviser Mike Davis, is that a good portion of the Epstein files is “largely unreleasable, for many reasons,” including the fact that rules on criminal procedure generally make it “illegal for government attorneys to disclose grand-jury materials” given these are usually kept “secret to protect victims, encourage witnesses to testify, and protect the falsely accused.”

 

Biden responds to autopen criticism by Trump and GOP members of Congress by saying they are liars and they know it.


Biden hits back at Trump, GOP over autopen criticism: ‘They’re liars’

 

Jeffrey Epstein details close relationship with Trump in newly released tapes

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"A New York author and journalist has released audio tapes that appear to detail how Donald Trump had a close social relationship with the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that he has long denied.

The tapes, released as part of the Fire and Fury podcast series by Michael Wolff, author of three books about Trump’s first term and 2020 bid for a second, and James Truman, former NME journalist and Condé Nast editorial director, include Epstein’s thoughts about the inner workings of the former US president’s inner circle.

Wolff says the recordings were made during a 2017 discussion with Epstein about writing his biography. Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges two years later. Despite his crimes, the wealthy financier was at the heart of a social circle of the rich and powerful in the US and overseas that contained many famous names."

 

ICE Is So Out of Control, They Tried to Raid a Kids’ Baseball Practice

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"Although President Donald Trump has heaped endless praise on the federal deportation agency, ICE agents have reportedly never been so miserable, forced to primarily detain noncriminal immigrants in order to meet their quota: 3,000 arrests per day, per Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller’s demands."

 

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Brian Bethune, professor of economics at Boston College, argues that the Trump Administration should have never calculated these tariffs for countries with such vastly different economic standings and relationships to the U.S. while utilizing the same formula.

“Treating all of the small developing countries the same way as you're treating the European Union… that seems to be outrageous,” Bethune says. “Some of these countries with relatively small and more fragile economies may have somewhat of a different approach to trade. This is the problem when you lump them all together.”

 

T-Mobile ends DEI policies to secure FCC approval on two deals

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The FCC chair previously threatened to block mergers involving companies that are engaged in DEI.

"Any businesses that are looking for FCC approval, I would encourage them to get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination," Carr previously told Bloomberg News.

 

After ten years of Trump's blatant, incessant lying, the White House is outraged at what it perceives as Schumer lying about Trump being responsible for the Texas flooding.


White House blasts Schumer, Democrats for 'depraved lie' blaming Trump for Texas flash flood

 

U.S. inflation accelerated in June.


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/business/cpi-report-inflation-june.html

 

Russia rejects Trump's 50-day ultimatum.


Russia rejects Trump's demand for a Ukraine war ceasefire in 50 days as unacceptable

 

Trump and his people promoted conspiracy narratives. Now they want everything quiet on Epstein.


Trump urged his supporters to see conspiracies everywhere. With Jeffrey Epstein, that’s coming back to haunt him.

 

Trump official: Never mind rising costs — president’s 'leadership' is making prices drop
David Badash
July 14, 2025 | 11:02AM ET

Trump official: Never mind rising costs — president’s 'leadership' is making prices drop

 

It's not clear what he's trying to say.

It seems he's saying that Americans are willing to pay more for American-made goods brought about by the trade wars that stem from what he perceives as Trump's 'leadership'.

 

Stephen Miller's fantasy.


Commentary: Stephen Miller says Americans will live better lives without immigrants. He's blowing smoke

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Stephen Miller, the front man for Donald Trump’s deportation campaign against immigrants, took to the airwaves the other day to explain why native-born Americans will just love living in a world cleansed of undocumented workers.

“What would Los Angeles look like without illegal aliens?” he asked on Fox News. “Here’s what it would look like: You would be able to see a doctor in the emergency room right away, no wait time, no problems. Your kids would go to a public school that had more money than they know what to do with. Classrooms would be half the size. Students who have special needs would get all the attention that they needed. ... There would be no fentanyl, there would be no drug deaths.” Etc., etc.

 

Nobody's going to be running to take one of these jobs that pays $8/hr as a 1099 employee picking tomatoes in the hot sun 12 hours a day.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/trump-ice-morale-immigration/683477/

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"Having insisted for years that capturing criminals is its priority, ICE is now shelving major criminal investigations to prioritize civil immigration arrests, grabbing asylum seekers at their courthouse hearings, handcuffing mothers as their U.S.-citizen children cry, chasing day laborers through Home Depot parking lots. As angry onlookers attempt to shame ICE officers with obscenities, and activists try to dox them, officers are retreating further behind masks and tactical gear."