Headline: Dallas Express, July 9, 2025 — Kirk Warns Trump: Amnesty Could Fracture MAGA Base
Dear Readers and Charlie Kirk:
References:
- Texas and the Bracero Program (1942-1947)
- Dallas Express (7/9/2025) Kirk Warns Trump: Amnesty Could Fracture MAGA Base
- New York Post (7/9/2025) Trump insists ‘no amnesty’ for migrant farmworkers as agriculture secretary floats replacing them with Medicaid recipients
- Road Genius, (6/2/2025) United States Tourism Statistics
President Trump acknowledges the shortage of farm laborers among our native population. This is not a new problem, but one that was prominent long before World War II. The labor shortage became acute during World War II as young American citizens left to battle tyrants on two continents.
By no means does President Trump plan to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. The ongoing actions of the DOJ, FBI, and ICE show that our country is actively removing criminal illegal aliens.
I suggest Charlie Kirk refrain from unqualified criticism of our President. The low-information people, chiefly Democrat voters, eagerly accept such false allegations, further confusing the American people.
The Bracero Agreement persisted until 1964, the year President Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, Texas. Why? Those courageous young men left the farms to serve in our Armed Forces in WW2. They returned home to the GI Bill (the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944). High technology and industrial work paid better than farm work. Beneficiaries of the GI Bill attended colleges and universities where they became equipped for a rapidly expanding American economy.
Throughout my elementary school years, Mexican mothers would enroll their children in our Texas public schools without prejudice. As the families moved to other areas for farm work, those mothers would check their children out of our schools. They would take official transcripts with them. This allowed them to enroll their children in other schools.
Until 2001 when Islamist terrorists killed thousands of Americans in New York City, hundreds of innocent airline passengers, and Pentagon employees, our relationship was accommodating on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border. Our Texas driver’s licenses and Texas automobile insurance were valid in Mexico. Likewise, Mexicans enjoyed the same freedoms. The limits of these freedoms were defined by our respective immigration borders, generally around 30 miles inland on both sides of the geographical border.
What President Trump proposes is an application of the rules of the old Bracero Agreement. He is most certainly not suggesting amnesty.
To be clear on our use of language, an alien is someone not native to one’s country, just as a Martian would be an alien to Earth. An immigrant is a person who moves to another country with the intent of permanent residency.
Tourists are neither immigrants nor illegal aliens. They are visitors. In 2024, over 35.16 million overseas visitors traveled to the United States in 2024. In the previous year of 2023, more than 66.34 million international visitors dropped in to visit us. The point is simply this: not all aliens who come to America are criminals. In fact, we have far more visitors each year than the illegal aliens who sneak across our borders.
Uninformed reactions are not amenable to national peace and harmony. I truly appreciate Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA. This post is not intended to discredit Charlie Kirk, but to encourage Charlie and others to carefully check the facts.
I encourage everyone: always check the facts before deriding statements from our elected leaders.
John White
Rockwall, Texas
John N. White 