Trump: Undocumented immigrants are ‘very special people’ who do farm work that ‘inner city’ people won’t
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that undocumented immigrants are “naturally” suited to farm work that “people that live in the inner city … don’t do.”
Trump made the remark during an appearance Tuesday morning on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
The president contrasted his administration’s new policy toward undocumented farm workers with ICE’s crackdown of undocumented immigrants in cities like Los Angeles.
“We’re taking care of our farmers,” Trump told CNBC’s Joe Kernan.
Speaking of undocumented immigrants, the president said, “these people — you can’t replace them very easily. You know, people that live in the inner city are not doing that work … they don’t do it. These people, they do it naturally, naturally.”
Trump said he recently asked a farmer how their farm handles when undocumented immigrants are injured.
“He said, ‘they don’t get a bad back, sir, because if they get a bad back they die. I said, ‘that’s interesting,’” Trump told Kernan.
“In many ways, they’re very special people,” the president said.
Trump’s comments drew condemnation from his critics who called the remarks racist:
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