Michelle Hackman

But from everything we've seen from Trump, he actually doesn't totally believe it himself.

This was a raid on a Hyundai plant that was making electric cars.

And those people were not on H-1B visas, but I think the themes are similar, right?

That raid, you know, was planned by ICE.

Trump didn't know about it.

They had planned to go in and actually hunt for, you know, Latino construction workers.

And in the end, ended up arresting 175 Korean workers who, you know, not all, but typically were working in sort of higher skilled jobs.

And he, I mean, basically like went out and disparaged the work of ICE.

He was like, that raid shouldn't have happened.

I don't know why they did it.

You can't just say a country's coming in, going to invest $10 billion to build a plant and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven't worked in five years and they're going to start making missiles.

It doesn't work that way.

And he actually arranged with the Korean government to let a lot of those people come back.

So you have to remember instead that it's kind of both because Trump himself was a businessman.

He employed a lot of foreign workers himself.

And so I think he, you know, it's not just like an influence campaign.

I think he sees it from this perspective of those guys.

Yeah.

where he just doesn't, I think this is where he doesn't actually connect with the MAGA base is that he's like, oh my God, you know, when I was running my hotels, I couldn't find Americans who wanted to take these jobs.

And so I had to hire people on visas.