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President Donald Trump’s attempt to defend the use of immigrant labor on farms left some on social media seeing similarities to remarks justifying slavery.
The administration of President Donald Trump has made it a point to conduct immigration raids on farms in his second term, but just as it seems there could be some resolution, his comments in a recent interview trying to justify the use of immigrant labor has some likening it to past defenses of slavery existing in the United States.
Trump appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday (August 5) to talk about the possibility of the administration granting
protections for undocumented farm workers, before rambling: “These people, you can’t replace them very easily. People that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They’ve tried, we’ve tried, everybody tried. They don’t do it. These people do it naturally. Naturally … they don’t get a bad back, because if they get a bad back, they die.”
