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NY Times: Trump's Migration Policy Threatens Nation's Shrubbery
2025-12-30
[Breitbart] The New York Times warned that President Donald Trump’s deportation of illegal migrants will damage the nation’s decorative shrubs by forcing up Americans’ wages.

“Construction wages have been rising, even as home building has been sluggish — a potential indication that deportations in the immigrant-heavy industry are bidding up salaries,” the newspaper warned its wealthy, pro-migrant, pro-shrubbery readers on December 28, adding:

The same is true in landscaping. Immigrant crews, working outside, were an easy deportation target over the summer. Come spring, said Kim Hartmann, an executive at a Chicago-area landscaping firm, the labor force could be 10 to 20 percent smaller. “It’s going to be much more competitive to find that individual who’s been a foreman or a supervisor and has years of experience,” Ms. Hartmann said. “We know that drives costs up.”

But there are limits to how much customers will pay for decorative shrubs, and they may opt to go without.

The article grudgingly admits that wages and automation rose in the 1930s, following Congress’s decision to sharply curb migration in 1924. But it did not describe how the nation’s shrubbery survived the resulting creation of prosperous suburbia:
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