MAGA on "amnesty watch" as Trump weighs migrant worker protections

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Axios

3 hours ago


President Trump's base is on high alert over his mixed messages on protections for some undocumented workers, warning that any form of "amnesty" would violate a red line.

Why it matters: MAGA sees Trump's promise of mass deportations as non-negotiable. Any attempt to water down the administration's immigration crackdown risks alienating his most loyal and fervent supporters.

"MAGA is always on amnesty watch. It will not move forward no matter what name anyone tries to call it. They all have to go home," right-wing podcaster Jack Posobiec told Axios.

Catch up quick: Trump has spent weeks flirting with the idea of shielding undocumented workers in agriculture and hospitality — industries critical to the economy and to GOP donors — from deportation.

He has insisted there will be "no amnesty," but also suggested that some workers might be allowed to stay if their employers "take responsibility" for them.

"What we're doing is getting rid of criminals. But we are doing a work program," Trump said at a Cabinet meeting this week.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins initially echoed the softer tone, but later stressed at a press conference: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way."

Driving the news: MAGA influencers had been grumbling for days over the muddled rhetoric, but the dam burst Monday when influential podcaster Charlie Kirk warned of a plot by the "ruling class" to implement some kind of "mass amnesty" plan.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/07/10/trump-amnesty-illegal-immigration-workers

[Hugin]

1. TACO Tito...

The backlash is finally getting loud enough to drown out the ever-diminishing ranks of social media Miller-esque MAGAts.

[sop]

2. "Some workers might be allowed to stay if their employers 'take responsibility' for them."

Sounds like Trump wants to bring back slavery.

[travelingthrulife]

6. "If their employers pay Trump enough money" is what he meant to say.

Pay the griftola and maybe your cows will get milked.

[sop]

7. I'm wondering what "take responsibility" means.

It sounds like indentured servitude; employers literally owning their immigrant workers, with the right to deport them if they don't work hard enough. Or farm encampments where immigrants are confined, renting shacks and buying food from farm-owned stores. It sounds like Trump wants to bring back the old plantation system, complete with overseers, segregated quarters and slave patrols (ICE) to hunt immigrants down when they escape.

[Blackjackdavey]

8. Sounds like?

That is literally what it is. The only difference between before Trump and now is the slave patrols. The workers could walk to Wal-Mart during their off time and expect to be unmolested, now they can't. That's the change. To get a work visa now, even an H1B visa, requires an employer to take responsibility for you. You can't submit the application without the employer's attestation. These people are already vulnerable to the disposition of the employer and that's for the documented workers. The undocumented workers are in fact slaves now but had the freedom to shop -- but never the freedom to slack, ask questions or push back against mistreatment.

[odins folly]

3. The catch all for this

Is that all the magats believe if a person entered the USA without a pre approved visa and letter personally signed my their grandmother and the shithibbon, they are “illegal” and therefore a “criminal” who needs to be rounded up just like dear leader said he was gonna….

[Bayard]

4. So, all enraged MAGAts are going to go pick fruit,

For very low wages, and no insurance, sick leave, vacation. Our economy mostly runs on hard-working migrants. Apparently, trumpsters just can't get that through their thick skulls.

I'm sure the contractor I used for years on my little mountain farm in Calif employed undocumented men. They put up fencing, did remodeling, painted my house, all kinds of jobs. They worked their asses off, and they were unfailingly polite. I was always alone there during the day while they were there, and I never once felt threatened.

[Prairie Gates]

5. MAGA has no red line. They will rationalize anything

This is utter bullshit from Axios as usual.