Rural Americans

I know someone (old, white, rich, republican) that while they are not a farmer, did rely heavily on immigrant labor on a daily basis. He paid his workers well and genuinely cared for everyone. He even put some of the families kids through undergrad college. One of the girls was working on her PHd last I heard. I’ve seen him with them enough to see that he really does care about their well being…

…and yet when Trump was on the campaign trail promising to round up all the illegals. This guy was full on Trump. We argued with him saying what about each of his employees? He replied, Trump won’t bother my employees, they are law abiding good Christians. We pointed out, that some had come here 40is years ago illegally and that Trump would be coming for them along with anyone that just looked like them. Noooooo he insisted that Trump would only catch those that are violent or steal. [Insert screaming gif]

I haven’t seen this guy much since then due to mostly unrelated issues. I am sure he is still insisting “his” people are special and therefor safe.

Just to add flavor to the story. His youngest son in 2016 (mid 30’s then) had been a full time meth addict for 10ish years. His friends were fellow users, and dabbled in meth production and car theft and robbing homes. The initial reason I stopped visiting was that they had taken over the barn on his father’s property and being around people on meth with guns is low on my list of things to do.

So to summarize, Trump was coming for the bad migrant workers and not his “good” workers and his son was a good Christian raised right and just experience a slight set back (on going for 15 plus years now but he’s about to turn it all around any day :rofl:).

ETA: Just in case it wasn’t clear. This guy loved and trusted the people working at his home equal to his blood family (maybe even more than his family). They all had full access to his home. His business. His vehicles. Possibly his credit cards. He trusted them without reservation is my point. But he also trusted FOX and Trump. The migrants that Trump was describing were so awful and so unlike the people he worked with that in his mind these had to be different groups rather than trump being wildly wrong about the people he trusted daily.

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