Labor Day During Trump’s Second Term—An Administration That Openly Takes The Side Of American Workers.

Director’s note: Yes, we realize this is a belated Labor Day post. But Labor Day is a holiday for laborers after all, so we decided they (us) should enjoy the day with our families!

Our managing editor James Fulford wrote the annual Labor Day Roundup at VDARE, and we’re very glad to be able to continue the tradition here.

White Papers advocates practical policy that protects the core demographic population of Western Countries and their values. Immigration is the number one threat to our demographic sovereignty. And the dignity of workers and their families is a unique Western value.

More on Immigration and Labor from White Papers:
- “Hanania’s Plea For “High-Skilled” Immigration Would Simply Displace A Better Class Of Americans,” by James Fulford
- “We Can Do the Job Ourselves: Automation is the Alternative to Low-Skill Immigration,” by Cyan Quinn
- “Remigration & Economy: Facts Vs. Fiction,” by Cyan Quinn
- “An Industrial Plan for America” by White Papers Staff
- “The Great American Worker,” by White Papers Staff
I used to write an annual Labor Day column for VDARE.com (I’ll put a list of them at the bottom) the last one being from 2023, but a common theme was of both parties conspiring to bring in immigrants, legal and illegal, to displace American workers.

The Democrats wanted to Greatly Replace Americans in general with minorities who (this is not the Democrats’ only motivation, but it’s there) who vote Democratic.

The Republicans, influenced partly by a fear of being thought racist, but more by the influence of Big Business donors, including the US Chamber of Commerce, wanted the immigrant flow kept up for its imagined benefits to America, and its real benefits to employers.

Immigration does not benefit America, it benefits (a) employers of labor, and (b) the immigrants themselves. The losers in this are American taxpayers and American workers.

This is not new: look at this very early 20th century cartoon about immigration versus labor.

Title: A Crying Need for General Repairs

Publication: The Saturday Globe, Utica, August 27, 1901

Summary: An American Laborer pleads with Uncle Sam to repair the wall of “Immigration Restriction” because its neglect has opened the way for disreputable men to enter the country. An “Employer of Labor” in his top hat and tails happily assists a man wearing a fez as he climbs down the ladder. The image caption reads, “American Labor Calls Uncle Sam’s Attention to the Inefficiency of His Immigration Restriction Wall.”

(Source: Ohio State University. Emphasis added).

Here’s a close-up—the guy in the top hat is an employer of labor, the guy with a knife between his teeth crawling through a hole in the wall marked OFFICIAL NEGLECT is apparently an Italian member of what in those days was known as the “Black Hand”—I.E. he’s Tony Soprano’s great-grandfather.

The 1901 cartoonist was presumably making the point that employers’ greed for cheap labor brings in not only what former President George W. Bush called “willing workers” but thieves and murderers.

Bush’s willing workers phrase came in a January 7, 2004 speech in which he said nice things about the illegal aliens already in the US, offered to legalize them—and then import temporary workers to take their jobs:

Their search for a better life is one of the most basic desires of human beings. Many undocumented workers have walked mile after mile, through the heat of the day and the cold of the night. Some have risked their lives in dangerous desert border crossings, or entrusted their lives to the brutal rings of heartless human smugglers. Workers who seek only to earn a living end up in the shadows of American life — fearful, often abused and exploited. When they are victimized by crime, they are afraid to call the police, or seek recourse in the legal system. They are cut off from their families far away, fearing if they leave our country to visit relatives back home, they might never be able to return to their jobs.

The situation I described is wrong. It is not the American way. Out of common sense and fairness, our laws should allow willing workers to enter our country and fill jobs that Americans have are not filling. (Applause.) We must make our immigration laws more rational, and more humane. And I believe we can do so without jeopardizing the livelihoods of American citizens.

Invited guests at this 2004 speech given a Presidential shout out included

“Chairman of the Hispanic Alliance for Progress, Manny Lujan. Gil Moreno, the President and CEO of the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans. Roberto De Posada, the President of the Latino Coalition. And Hector Flores, the President of LULAC.”

Compare that with Donald Trump’s administration. Here’s a quote from Donald Trump’s Labor Day proclamation this year:

From the earliest days of our American story, our Nation’s future has been molded by the skill, determination, and unwavering resilience of the American worker. From the earliest settlers, who laid the foundations of a new Nation to the innovators who built our railroads, steel mills, and skyscrapers, America’s greatness has always rested in the strength of its workforce. This Labor Day, we honor the proud legacy of America’s workforce — and we pay tribute to the unbreakable spirit that keeps it strong nearly 250 years later.

The American worker is the beating heart of our economy, the foundation of our strength, and the living embodiment of the American Dream. In every honest citizen lives the instinct to work, build, and create — an instinct seen in the welder, the nurse, the trucker, the farmer, and the machinist. Every job, every shift, every hour worked by millions of talented patriots today adds another stone to the foundation of our prosperity.

Doesn’t it sound as if Trump likes American workers almost as much as Dubya liked illegal Mexicans?

Here are some more items of Trump’s pro-American worker stance, all from whitehouse.gov:
- August 29, 2025 Trump Administration Cabinet Members Share Their First Job for Labor Day
- August 30, 2025 Wages Are Rising Under President Trump
- August 29, 2025 Press Secretary on President Trump’s Pro-Worker Accomplishments
- August 29, 2025 President Trump is the president of the American Worker
- August 28, 2025 Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer: “The Golden Age is HERE.”
- August 26, 2025 Trump Administration Celebrates Successes for America’s Workers
- May 1, 2025 JOBS BOOM: More Americans Working for Higher Pay
Bush, in 2001, tried to hire Hispanic conservative immigration enthusiast Linda Chavez as Secretary of Labor, only to find out her immigration enthusiasm extended to having had a Guatemalan illegal immigrant as a nanny.

Trump’s Labor Secretary Lorie Chavez-DeRemer is saying that the Golden Age for the American worker is here:
Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer: "The Golden Age is HERE."
So if anyone’s wondering if electing Trump made a difference, it did.

Previous Labor Day columns by me:

James Fulford

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Labor Day During Trump’s Second Term—An Administration That Openly Takes The Side Of American Workers.

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