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America First Audit

He said it in public. These are the documents on what happened next. Browse all records.

Why these cases

Trump sold “America First.” This record traces how public money, power, and risk moved toward family businesses, donors, favored firms, and foreign governments: and what workers, ranchers, retirees, patients, veterans, and small investors were left to absorb.

Said vs. done

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Case 226 of 254

Deportation Meets Harvest

Actions
documentedTrump directed executive agencies to use lawful means to enforce immigration law against inadmissible and removable noncitizens and set nationwide enforcement priorities.The White HouseRead record · 1 source
Outcomes
reportedReuters reported that ICE field enforcement in California agricultural areas led many workers at farms covered by its reporting to stay away from work.Reuters via Investing.comRead record · 1 sourcereportedInterviewees reported worker counts falling from 300 to 80 at one field and from 80 to 17 at another, with ripe crops left unpicked or rotting.Reuters via Investing.comRead record · 1 source
People and impacts
Who paid or was affected
  • Farmworkers in affected California communities
  • Farms in affected California communities
Promise and assessment
The promise
documentedThe platform promised the largest deportation operation in American history and separately promised to protect American farmers.The American Presidency ProjectRead record · 1 source

Promise partly kept

Trump kept the deportation promise, and contemporaneous evidence shows it colliding with the same platform's promise to protect farmers and the food supply in the affected communities.

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