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Yes, there's strong political opposition to immigration enforcement, but there's also strong opposition to illegal work enforcement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/california-farmers-bac...

If anyone were serious about this problem, E-verify would be in force everywhere and the working population that supports 12M undocumented immigrants would be out of work tomorrow, and out of the country the next day.

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The article makes very little sense. Trump's orders were about a) limiting immigrants and refugees from Syria, Iraq, Sudan, etc. and b) removal of criminal illegal aliens (of which for vast majority of them ICE has no idea where they are so it's as useful as ordering the sun to raise of the west). But field workers are predominantly Mexican or Latin American, and vast majority of them do not commit any crimes except possibly illegal entry or visa overstay. So what's the connection with Trump orders?

The article's premise is that most people thought Trump was bluffing/lying about barring Muslims, as well as about increasing deportation of undocumented workers. These executive orders proved Trump was serious about Muslims, and the NY Times simply found people who then realized that he probably is serious about undocumented workers as well.

Basically all the fears in this article were realized with the DHS announcements yesterday: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-immigrant-crackdown-worri...

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