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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump admits his anti-immigration agenda is hurting farmers and hotels: ‘Taking very good workers away’

Donald Trump appeared to concede that his aggressive anti-immigration campaign is debilitating American farmers and hotel businesses, marking a rare public admission that his promise of the “largest deportation operation in American history” comes at a significant cost.

“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,” the president wrote on Truth Social on Thursday.

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