I think that Trump and his party are driven purely by personal benefit and greed. The policies of Trump and his cronies reflect this and show how they want to control all the wealth among a ruling class. However, I don’t see how deporting immigrants (employees) would help this cause
Are they doing this for popular support? Why would they prioritize xenophobia over capital? Is it simply that they’re hateful and scared?
The mass deportations will trigger shortages in just about everything (business owners love cheaper and exploitable labor). With this massive hole in the workforce and no way to stop the bleeding we’ll see a return of child labor (already seeing this in Florida). Now this will allow then to lower pay anymore by justifying it with be like “they’re just kids”. Which in turn lowers the pay for everyone in that field as they now have to compete with fractional child wages. You’re right, its a gift and feast to the richest the world has to offer. But you want to know something? Its not going to go the way they planned. Their imaginary wealth rides on all the invisible strings keeping those stock prices high, and a lot of those invisible strings are tied to us (workers) as a whole.
I don’t know if there is a massive material difference from having children being paid trash vs illegal immigrants getting paid trash. Especially given that they won’t/can’t work as hard as adults. Both depress general wages for the same reason.
IMO a simple “fascism demands a scapegoat” and immigrants have ALWAYS been a politically expedient choice sufficiently explains the phenomenon.
Its probably anything and everything at once because its all just individuals serving their own self interests. Which is also why most of it is bad for the whole. The few that doesnt degrade the whole still serve their self interests tho.