Trump Stupidly Calls for Increased Immigration

Article subtitle: 
'We Need More People, Especially With A.I. Coming'
Article publisher: 
Information Liberation
Article date: 
17 August 2024
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday called for increased immigration, insisting "we need more people, especially with AI coming."

"We're going to let a lot of people come in, because we need more people, especially with AI coming and all the different things," Trump said. "And the farmers need, everybody needs but we're going to make sure they're not murderers and drug dealers."...

Trump's position on AI puts him to the left of BlackRock CEO Larry Fink...

In June, the New York Times reported that Trump had "strikingly softened his language about immigration" during a private meeting in Washington with "a group of America's most powerful chief executives."

Just days later, Trump told a group of tech execs that he wants to dramatically expand immigration by "automatically" giving out green cards to anyone who graduates from any college in America...

Trump's own statements, combined with his flip-flopping on immigration and putting Jared Kushner in charge of securing the border during his first term, makes it really hard to believe he will actually follow through on his campaign pledge of "mass deportations."...