The predictably erratic President Grumpy Gills

A few days after telling ICE goons to leave farm workers alone, spiteful Trump calls for stepped-up enforcement in Democratic cities

Trump is the most predictably erratic mug on the planet: Fresh from a weekend of embarrassment, during which millions of Americans marched in glorious opposition to his policies, the visceral president directed ICE to step up aggressive immigration enforcement in Democratic cities. As the Associated Press reports:

Trump in a social media posting called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials “to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.”

He added that to reach the goal officials ”must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside.”

It’s so easy to track this guy.

The Army’s 250th anniversary celebration and parade in Washington commanded only a fraction of the attention the country-wide No Kings protests did. Images of President Grumpy Gills at the parade were a signal of things to come. So, here we have Monday news of stepped-up ICE enforcement in parts of the country where No Kings was huge.

It’s another predictably erratic turn for the adolescent Trump.

Just a few days ago, he ordered ICE goons to stop arresting immigrants on farms and in hotels and restaurants, a move that reveals the utter stupidity of Trump’s and Stephen Miller’s plan for mass deportation.

In order to meet the goal of 3,000 arrests a day, masked ICE agents must go after immigrants, undocumented or documented, who are at work and generally obeying the law. Half of them might have entered the country without authorization, or overstayed visas, but for the most part, they do jobs Americans don’t want to do, and they stay out of trouble. The arrests of those men and women — the ones who pull radishes from farm fields and wash dishes in restaurants — sparked the LA protests and pushed even more Americans to come out for No Kings Day.

It’s what pushed Trump to call off the goons from farms, hotels and restaurants.

So apparently ICE will now go after immigrants working in other industries.

According to the American Immigration Council’s analysis of 2022 Census Bureau data, the construction sector employs the greatest number of undocumented workers, about 1.5 million of them. Quoting the council’s report:

The construction and agriculture industries would lose at least one in eight workers, while in hospitality, about one in 14 workers would be deported due to their undocumented status. Among those industries, certain trades would be hit even harder. Mass deportation would remove more than 30 percent of the workers in major construction trades, such as plasterers, roofers, and painters; nearly 28 percent of graders and sorters of agriculture products; and a fourth of all housekeeping cleaners.

Significant numbers of undocumented immigrants also work in warehousing and transportation, manufacturing and in the generaal services (janitorial, maintenance) of major institutions.

So another prediction: Companies that employ immigrants in construction and the other industries I mention will soon start bellyaching about the ICE raids, and Trump will back off and say his promise was to deport immigrants who are criminals and he’ll claim he’s deported most of them already. It’ll be some version of that.

It’s even possible that Trump will file for divorce from Miller, the neo-nazi behind all this stupid cruelty, and Miller will leave the White House and take a job with Elon Musk.

OK, that last part is wishful thinking, but you must agree — it’s a good thought.