It’s Not Just His Tariffs. Trump’s Deportations Are Wrecking Our Economy Too

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

Joe, Politics, Trump, Wash, Joewalsh, News, Thedaily, Thelincolnproject, Podsaveamerica

4.6 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Buckle up America. Not only is what Trump doing to immigrants stupid, cruel, divisive and un-American. It’s also gonna mess up our economy. Big time. Get ready to pay lots more at the grocery store for those peaches, that beef, and those onions.

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0:00.0	America, we got to get back to doing what's expected of us as free citizens in this democracy.
0:07.2	That means being tolerant, being respectful, staying informed, and being engaged.
0:13.5	I'm former Congressman Joe Walsh. Follow me here and join the millions of Americans who are renewing their social contract with each other.
0:23.6	The social contract, it's on us.
0:31.5	Hey, I've been a broken record. Happy Friday.
0:34.2	I've been a broken record now for a long, long time, at least the last four or five months,
0:40.9	that what Trump is doing when it comes to immigration, what Donald Trump is doing when it comes to ICE and these deportations,
0:49.7	it's stupid, it's cruel. It's divisive.
0:56.1	It's utterly un-American.
0:59.1	It's mean-spirited.
1:01.0	It's short-sighted.
1:02.7	It's ignorant.
1:04.9	Did I say it's cruel?
1:07.6	But here's the other thing.
1:10.3	What Donald Trump is doing right now, what his government is doing right now, what his immigration cops, ICE are doing right now,
1:18.9	man is going to also wreck our economy.
1:24.2	It should be enough that it's un-American.
1:26.6	It should be enough, right? Shouldn't it be enough that it's un-American. It should be enough, right?
1:28.4	Shouldn't it be enough that having immigration cops go into Home Depot parking lots
1:35.5	to just grab a bunch of day laborers?
1:38.3	I mean, every American should be outraged about that.
1:43.1	And every American should say, this is un-American.
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