Many Trump supporters, particularly in southern states like Texas, are starting to feel the effects of the constant ICE immigration raids.
If you ask them, they say they still fully support Trump and his immigration and border security policies. But they are starting to understand just how reliant the southern US economy, especially the construction trade, is on immigrant labour. So, now they are starting to complain about the paramilitary-style ICE raids, which has half of the country in state of chronic low-level fear interspersed with acute panic attacks.
And guess what? It's bad for business. People who still call themselves Trump supporters are monitoring, and contributing to, online group chats which share ICE agent sightings, hurriedly hiding their workers away lest they be snatched and deported. They are erecting razor wire fences around their properties to keep the agents out. And yet they will still tell you they support Trump and his border control agenda. Somehow they have disconnected Trump and the ICE raids, and they insist that they know that Trump loves his country, much more than Biden ever did, yada yada.
What kind of a dystopian world are they living in? George Orwell would have had a ball with all this.
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