Trump wants to deport migrants. They would only be good enough for a job

US President Donald Trump has described migrants as irreplaceable workers for agriculture. At the same time, he indirectly denied people from economically disadvantaged groups in the United States. “We cannot allow our farmers not have anyone,” said the Republican when asked by the US broadcaster CNBC. “These people (…) cannot be replaced so easily.”

People from the “Inner City” would simply not “do this type of work,” said Trump. Migrants, on the other hand, did these activities “naturally”. He also alluded to the fact that migrants could not afford weaknesses such as back pain.

“Inner City” (in German, for example, “inner city”) is a politically charged description for districts in the USA, in which blacks were mainly lived. In the course of US history, they were pushed into certain areas by discriminatory laws and at the same time excluded from economic opportunities.

This spatial separation is still visible in many places: poor white people tend to live in the country in the USA, but poor black people, on the other hand, are more common in urban areas. However, they are increasingly pushed to the city limits by increasing living costs. In political debates, the term “Inner City” continues to serve as a vehicle to talk about blacks without naming this directly.

Critics also repeatedly accuse Trump of using racist stereotypes with his statements. Agriculture in the United States has been closely linked to the exploitation of black labor over centuries – from slavery to later forms of discrimination.

Trump’s recent remarks could trigger similar allegations. Civil rights groups have long criticized that migrants in political debates are often reduced solely to the work they have done – especially in agriculture and gastronomy.