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And the redneck republican watches his 20 miles of cropland lay fallow with nobody to continue the production cycle?
Yeah. Maybe.
I mean, a "mass deportation" isn't an easy thing to do. They don't have the detention facilities or the personnel to do it, and it will take many many months before they have either (or the money to pay for it, for that matter).
But, yeah - if Trump sticks to it and makes it a top priority, they'll get the money and put it in play. He and Miller and Homan appear to be true believers on this. They think that the negative consequences of lax immigration enforcement are much, much worse than the economic costs that might be associated with disrupting the industries that heavily use those folks for work.
Or maybe not. Trump's got a good ear for when things are unpopular. He's not seeking to maximize his popularity, of course - he truly doesn't care whether his opponents like him or not. But he has an excellent sense for what the voters in his camp want, and is perfectly willing to flip on a dime to give it to them. The "Operation Warp Speed to anti-vax" road is an excellent example of that, but he did it from the jump - he intuited that cutting Medicare and Social Security was deeply unpopular, so he completely rejected those positions. Federal regulation of abortion was this cycle's version; not only did he throw the pro-life folks under the bus during the campaign, but he's appointed a pro-choice person to head HHS!
So I expect he'll wait and see. If the "redneck republicans" find a way to work it out and keep their farms running with whatever "mass deportation" they come up with, he'll be ecstatic. And if it turns out that there's really enough economic pain that it starts to drive up food prices, he'll shout "Transgendered Squirrel!" and pivot away from it so that the tomatoes and carrots get picked.
