And just like that, TACO Trump strikes again.Five minutes before midnight east coast time, Trump directed ICE to abruptly halt all immigrant raids at farms, restaurants, hotels, and the like. Trump also directed ICE to stop so-called ‘collateral arrests’ where ICE randomly detains and arrests non-criminal immigrants.Last month, Trump dropped his tariffs. Weeks ago, Trump folded to Canada. This week he folded to China. And now Trump is folding on a key plank of his deportation agenda just a day after calling in the Marines to Los Angeles. The midnight directive to ICE marks an abrupt pivot in Trump’s immigration agenda and sidelines immigration hardliners like resident Nazi Stephen Miller in favor of MAGA’s corporate and billionaire donors.Trump’s rich friends told him the reality which is immigrants contribute more than anyone knows to this nation. They grow all our food, prepare all of our food, distribute our food, and in many cases as caretakers and child care workers they spoon feed food. Immigrants pay a higher tax rate than billionaires and they are the single greatest factor behind economic growth. In short, Trump’s rich friends put the scare on him. Gavin Newsom also put the scare on him. Trump thought he’d bowl over Newsom and take control of California’s National Guard without a fight, but California’s Governor called him a cheesy, washed up, mentally unstable dictator in front of the entire national audience. He challenged Trump legally, morally, clearly and unequivocally. California Senator Alex Padilla attracted global media attention after he was tackled and arrested by Homeland Security goons.Protesters across the country put the scare on him. Immigrant communities across the country are on the frontlines of resistance against the terror inflicted by the administration and they’re fighting back more furiously and effectively than ever before. They are stopping ICE cars and busses, intervening in raids, de-arresting their friends and families, and generally making life hell on earth for the masked predators hanging out at schools and churches looking for children and moms to snatch up and whisk away in unmarked vans. Trump paid a massive political price for trying to criminalize regular working people. The more voters see what his immigration agenda is really about, the more they hate it. Trump’s polling numbers are going down faster than Kristi Noem at a MAGA keg party. He’s nearly 20 points underwater on inflation, he’s 13 points underwater on the economy, and on immigration—which was his one bright spot—he’s now also underwater as of this week. Let it be known for the rest of eternity that on the eve of the largest nationwide revolt against America’s wannabe king, the silver spoon punk ass bitch chicken taco’d out and threw in the white flag BEFORE A SINGLE PROTESTER HIT THE STREET.
