By NYT News Service/Syndicate Stories
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump acknowledged on Thursday that his immigration policies are hurting the farming and hotel industries, making a rare concession that his crackdown is having ripple effects on the American workforce.
Trump, who has made mass deportation a centerpiece of his presidency, said on social media that “changes are coming.” And while there was no sign of any significant modification to his policies, Trump’s statements suggested the scale of his crackdown may be alienating industries he wants to keep in his corner.
“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long-time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace,” he said. Trump for decades has owned luxury hotels, an industry with a strong immigrant labor force.
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