by Jacob Grandstaff
Trump’s deportations are exposing D.C.’s dirty secret: the capital’s moral outrage masks a deep dependence on cheap, illegal labor to sustain elite comfort.
DC elites are furious at Trump’s deportations even as he cleans up their no-go zones.
President Donald Trump’s base has long argued that illegal immigration is a lifestyle subsidy to the leftist elites who don’t want to pay market wages or prices. Last month, the foreign-owned globalist mouthpiece Politico was forced to admit that a month of immigration enforcement in Washington, D.C., had proven MAGA right.
Washington, D.C., has long portrayed itself as a bastion of moral clarity and progressive virtue. Yet in the wake of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids—owing to Trump’s takeover of the city’s police force—it is becoming clear how much of the city’s outrage at deportations owes to economics.
Affluent residents are discovering many of those they depended on—housekeepers, nannies, landscapers, and caregivers—are suddenly in jeopardy of removal. The informal and often outright illegal nature of these employment arrangements shields these households from the real burden of paying for domestic work at market rates.
Even more stressful, their favorite restaurants, cafes, coffee shops, and bars now face increased business costs or possible shutdowns from the sudden lack of cheap, foreign labor.
In many ways, D.C. is the East Coast’s version of Portland. Leftist protests remain ubiquitous, and liberalism, with its many denominations, has become the unofficial civic religion. But unlike West Coast neo-hippies and deadbeats, East Coast leftists occupy the upper echelons of polite society. Although they pay lip service to “peace, love, and understanding,” they’re primarily motivated by the almost conservative impulse to protect their positions and lifestyle.
Households, once insulated from inflationary pressures because their domestic costs were artificially suppressed, now see that buffer vanish. Their anger is class anger, rooted in the deferred inflation they’ve enjoyed thanks to a readily available foreign underclass.
Why ICE Must Finish the Job
ICE’s mission should not stop at the arrest of violent illegal aliens. If we truly believe in the rule of law and the primacy of citizen labor, then enforcement must go further. Two fundamental reasons compel a full-scale deportation of all illegal aliens in high-income cities like Washington.
1. Wean elites from dependency on bargain labor
Upper-middle-class households and urban yuppies have become addicted to
the subsidy of illegal labor. Many of them never interact with a
blue-collar American or an American service worker who is not a college
student. The classism this breeds toward their fellow Americans is toxic
to the country, especially as these are the very people who occupy or
will soon occupy positions of power and influence.
From a lifestyle standpoint, if the comfortable lawyer or bureaucrat must budget for full wages and prices of domestic and service work, they gain a better understanding of the true costs of inflation.
2. Open jobs for American workers in distressed regions
When low-wage service jobs in D.C. remain vacant due to illegal alien
removal, employers will be compelled to hire Americans or close their
businesses. If they choose the latter, it will pave the way for
entrepreneurs who will hire Americans.
Many adjacent states and regions, like West Virginia, western Maryland, western Virginia, and Baltimore, have underemployed, low-skilled Americans desperate for opportunity. Many of these people would move into D.C.’s service and trade sector if the competition from cheap foreign labor were eliminated.
Instead of allowing the labor force to be saturated by low-income workers from poor countries, we should force the market to draw from the domestic pool. Locals would have to pay a little more in wages and costs, but rather than subsidize El Salvador through remittances, they would be funding Americans, many of whom have long been trapped in generational poverty.
D.C. residents’ exaggerated outrage at ICE deporting their “neighbors” is just a self-righteous façade to defend the status quo of their class position and lifestyle. If liberal elites really believe in justice, they must be willing to endure the same market discipline that inflationary, liberal policies have forced on other regions. And if they’re genuinely compassionate, they will have no problem recruiting their fellow Americans in West Virginia, where service and trade wages are much lower. ICE should relentlessly finish the job of removing every single illegal worker in high-income areas like D.C.
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Photo: WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 16: ICE and other federal agents take a delivery driver into custody at Union Station on August 16, 2025 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to deploy federal officers and the National Guard to the District in order to place the DC Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and assist in crime prevention in the nation's capital. (Photo by Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)
Jacob Grandstaff is an investigative researcher for Restoration News
Source: https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/22/ice-must-finish-the-job-in-the-nations-capital/
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