so I finally read the article in question. Not sure what the Twitter account took issue with. It seemed pretty straight forward, in this case.
President Donald Trump claimed undocumented immigrants are "naturally" inclined toward farm labor during an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box.
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Trump on Undocumented Workers: ‘These People’ Do Farm Labor ‘Naturally’
The president claims he wants to help farmers keep migrant workers because they are built to withstand backbreaking work
By Nikki McCann Ramirez
August 5, 2025
US President Donald Trump speaks to the media at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on August 3, 2025 as returns to the White House from his Bedminster residence, where he spent the weekend. (Photo by
Racists have for centuries attempted to justify their belief that they are made of superior stock by making absurdist, unfounded claims about the supposed innate differences between races. Today, President Donald Trump appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss the economic impacts of his first months in office, as well as inform the public of his belief that undocumented migrants are more “naturally” inclined toward hard labor.
Speaking about how his administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigration is affecting the American agricultural sector, Trump said that “in some cases, we’re sending [migrants] back to their country with a pass back in legally.”
“We can’t let our farmers not have anybody,” Trump added in reference to undocumented farm laborers, primarily of Hispanic origin, who are being targeted for deportation by his Department of Homeland Security. “These [are] people that you can’t replace them very easily — you know, people that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They’re just not doing that work. And they’ve tried — we’ve tried, everybody tried. They don’t do it. These people do it naturally, naturally.”
It should go without saying that no group of people feels an intrinsic urge to cultivate the land for sub-livable wages and at constant risk of detainment and deportation, but the president doubled down.
“I said, ‘What happens if they get it — to a farmer the other day — what happens if they get a bad back?’ He said, ‘They don’t get a bad back, sir, because if they get a bad back, they die.’ … You know, in many ways they’re very, very special people,” Trump added.
As “special” as they may be to the president, his administration has treated undocumented workers — especially farm workers — with a singular cruelty that has become increasingly dangerous. Migrants have been sent to foreign gulags where they were denied due process rights and allegedly tortured. Raids have targeted workplaces and farms in enforcement actions that one migrant told The Guardian makes them feel like they’re being “hunted like animals.”
And as much as Trump claims farmers and land owners who employ undocumented migrants are going to be “taken care of,” his administration is actively engaged in efforts to significantly increase the size of ICE’s agent pool. A widespread recruitment effort boasts that new agents could be entitled to a $50,000 signing bonus, $60,000 in student loan forgiveness, and other perks.
As the administration made a public show of cruelty toward the nation’s migrant population, farmers and other industry workers began to complain that the roundups and deportations were affecting their ability to conduct business. In June, the backlash became so intense that the president was forced to make a soft pivot in order to appease one of his core constituencies. “We can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don’t have maybe what they’re supposed to have, maybe not,” he said at the time, ordering a brief pause in enforcement.
The concession didn’t last long: Within weeks, CBS News reported that after appeals from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, roundups of undocumented farm workers resumed with a vengeance. Trump said today that he wants to “work with” farmers to find a solution, but given his administration’s thirst for deportations, it’s unlikely migrant laborers will ever be able to work in peace as long as he is in power.