President Trump admitted Thursday that his own immigration crackdown is gutting key American industries — and pledged that “changes are coming” to the White House’s policies.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump acknowledged that his deportation campaign is hurting key sectors of the American economy, including farming and hospitality.
“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace,” Trump wrote.
He added that many migrants who crossed into the US under his predecessor, President Joe Biden, are now seeking those same jobs.
“This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming,” he said.
Trump addressed the Truth Social post later Thursday afternoon, telling reporters at the White House: “Our farmers are being hurt badly by, you know, they have very good workers. They’ve worked for them for 20 years.”
“They’re not citizens, but they’ve turned out to be, you know, great. And we’re going to have to do something about that,” Trump said of undocumented migrants.
“We can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don’t have maybe what they’re supposed to have, maybe not. And you know what’s going to happen and what is happening?”
The president added that migrant laborers have in some cases “been there for 20, 25 years and they’ve worked great. And the owner of the farm loves them and everything else.”
“And then you’re supposed to throw them out and you know what happens? They end up hiring the people, the criminals that have come in, the murderers from prisons and everything else.”
Trump said that “we’re going to have an order on that pretty soon.”
“I think we can’t do that to our farmers and leisure, too — hotels. We’re going to have to use a lot of common sense on that.”
The public comment comes as Trump’s administration escalates what he’s called the largest deportation effort in US history — a campaign that has left employers reeling and immigrant communities on edge.
