A pro Trump thread to balance the 154 anti Trump threads!

[Carpediemtoday]

Thought I’d be brave and start a pro-Trump thread for a change, after all, there are so many anti-Trump ones , we need some balance!
I even tried commenting on an anti-Trump thread today… and wow, just kept being told to go away, my comments were not well received. Honestly, I feel honoured to feel as if I have been officially deported, what an achievement!😂

Gaza deal. Abraham accords.

Okay, thanks. But didn't he also have a plan for forcing two million people out of the Gaza Strip so he could turn it into a 'Riviera' (and presumably make a load of money out of it)?

Well that wasn't the plan that came into fruition.

Posts are anti Trump for a reason.

Why would you want you start a pro Trump post, unless your anti American , anti NATO, anti Europe, anti London, and pro chaos, pro people being shot in the street, pro Putin, pro nepotism, pro theft, pro corruption pro stupid?

That wouldn't make sense. Would it?

I was "pro trump" until this term. It's actually terrifying now. The first term was doing really well on the economy until COVID came.

Scary! This is what the so-called 'first world land of the free, land of hopes and dreams' could produce as a leader. It’s just shameful.

I love the way @Carpediemtoday has fucked off gone away, TACO, like their hero about whom, by the way, they could not come up with any instances of the orange toddler's achievements.

I was going to say that he has probably improved the business of one fake tan supplier, but knowing Trump, he hasn’t paid the invoice.

He’s not a Democrat that will allow millions of unvetted ‘asylum seekers’ into the country

No, he’s not a democrat. Based on today’s Epstein file release, it’s pretty evident what he is though. Even more evident, I should say. Since everybody already knew.

Difficult to get data for 2025 arrivals, but re asylum being granted, but I found this:

Key Asylum Facts in US 2025Statistics

Immigration Court Backlog Total-3,416,921 cases pending as of September 2025

Asylum Applications Pending in Immigration Courts-2,295,156 cases as of September 2025

Affirmative Asylum Backlog at USCIS-Over 1.4 million applications as of December 2024

Asylum Grant Rate in Immigration Courts (March 2025)-24% – with 76% denial rate

Average Wait Time for Asylum Decisions-4.3 years for asylum cases

Monthly Asylum Decisions (March 2025)-10,933 cases – highest monthly total since 2001

So under Trump, first quarter, lots more cases being heard at about 10k cases per month, 24% approval rate.

Asylum Cases Statistics in US 2025 | Key Facts - The World Data

2024 was a record year worldwide for asylum claims. 8.4 million, slight drop in 2025. I am sure Trump will claim credit for that.

And Biden deported more people last year than since 2014. So all the graphs tie up.

Biden carried out the highest level of deportations since 2014, new report says | CNN Politics

An aspect I find interesting that I can't find covered, is if there is a correlation between difficulty of entry v asylum claims. That is, where once there was once economic migrants crossing the border back and forward to work seasonal jobs, are they now claiming asylum that the crossing back and forward is more difficult ? I reckon that is worth exploring. Would a completed border wall reduce crossings, but increase asylum claims ?

How is that wall by the way? It must be finished by now ? Or did Bannon nick all the money ?

Steve Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case : NPR

I am sure you can find more up to date data than me.

They don’t need to cross back and forth for seasonal jobs. The agricultural visa has no caps, theoretically you could sponsor as many as you can get.

Farmers say (I don’t exactly take their word for it) that many times they will sponsor workers and those workers will up and leave for more lucrative work elsewhere (construction, usually).

Yes, Trump has been much too soft on employers and I hope this changes after the midterms.

Utterly pathetic

How do you square it with yourself that there’s a five year old in a US detention centre, rapidly declining in health and they’re doing sod all about it? A five year old. Practically a baby. Let that sink in.

If you think that’s excusable you’re exactly the type who’d have been cool living next to Auchwitz in the thirties and forties. You don’t have a heart.

Quote : " The agricultural visa has no caps, "

It does. Quote from link below:

"The agricultural worker visa, or H-2A visa, is subject to an annual numerical limit of 66,000 visas and a wait list is implemented once the cap is reached. Employers may also be placed on a wait list if their petitions are not approved by the start date of the job."

Visa Options for Agricultural Workers – USCIS Guide

You are not disputing the data I presented ? Especially the stuff about 2024 being a record year for asylum worldwide, and Biden setting a recent years record for deportations ? Cool.

And yes. Trump likes these temp worker visa things. Did he not upset MAGA recently over his plans for them ? From the other link below:

"The Trump Organization requested 184 foreign workers to work across various company properties, a record number that has increased over the years.
The company sought to hire workers through H-2A and H-2B visas for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, two golf clubs and at Trump Vineyard Estates in Charlottesville, Va., according to data from the Department of Labor."

Trump Organization requested record number of foreign workers in 2025 (thehill.com)

No update on the wall ? Did Bannon give the money back before or after Trump pardoned him ?

Aint the internet great. Makes factchecking claims really easy.

They are from Ecuador. Do you think they actually have a basis for asylum? What do you think will happen when they ultimately are rejected? Do you think they will just leave?

I mean, I hope so, but the fact they ignored the exit money means that they probably had no intention to leave in an orderly manner.

You should blame the parents for putting their child in this situation, instead of the government taking a hard line so other dodgy asylum seekers are not tempted to drag their children (or unrelated children, as has happened) over the US border.

You are mixing up the categories (and so is this third party site giving out erroneous information).

That’s for non-agricultural visas (H-2B). Those are indeed capped, and at the number you just gave.

The agricultural visa is uncapped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-2A_visa

Aint the internet great. Makes factchecking claims really easy

We can do without your arrogance. Especially as it’s unwarranted. Do better.

Ha ha. Fair enough. Touche :-)

300k H2-A visas in 2022. The site I linked in not in error. The other visas are capped.

The agri visas are subject to extensive conditions:

H-2A and H-2B Temporary Worker Visas: Policy and Related Issues | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

And yes, there is a bit of a battle between Trump and MAGA over this:

Donald Trump's H-1B visa defense divides GOP supporters over immigration (thehill.com)

But yup. Happy to be corrected on agri visas.

Equador has in fact had a sharp rise in cartel based violence. Honestly though - it’s hard to stomach any human that talks about a child in the clinically dispassionate tone that you do.

I wonder whether it’s evident to those that know you in real life.

Cartel violence is not a basis for asylum claims. Otherwise pretty much all of Central and parts of South America could empty into America.

You’d have to be, for example, some journalist reporting on cartel violence or a politician being targeted by them.

I talk about it this way, because if you allow people with no basis for asylum to stay because you feel bad for them, you’ll only encourage more to try. And the problem will never be solved.

Dragging children across borders to bolster asylum claims really did happen under Biden (honestly started under Obama, remember the unaccompanied children fiasco he had to deal with?)—and in the long run, this is why you have to reject those claims.

Well said. Whatever the circumstances of this little boy, show some compassion Ringo, FFS.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/31/us/minnesota-protest-national-boycott

Anti ICE protests touch every corner of the US. Even your Texas.

But yet, Liam Ramos and his family were in the US legally, with a pending asylum claim. Whether you agree that Ecuadorians should have that option in future or not is irrelevant in this case. They were unlawfully, and inhumanely, detained and remain so, to the point that a judge has blocked their removal.

There is no excuse for using a five-year-old boy as a pawn. None.

No. His parents came through on the CBP app (as I understand it). They can drop their asylum claim and apply for 2,400 dollars per applicant to self deport. Why didn’t they do that?

More to the point, who told them they had any basis for asylum? Ecuador is actually
one of the safer, more functional countries in South America, so much so that they’ve reportedly got 500,000 Venezuelan refugees.

You are using an emotional appeal that will solve nothing and actually make the problem worse. But I don’t expect you to understand second-order consequences.

You can actually hear asylum claims at specialized detention centers. As was the practice under Obama.

Biden fucked up with catch and release, hence the problems we are having today.