Joe Rogan not a fan of Trump's workplace immigration raids

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Joe Rogan doesn’t appear to be supportive of workplace immigration raids as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans.

The popular podcaster, who sat down with comedians Luis J. Gomez and Big Jay Oakerson recently, brought up demonstrators in Los Angeles who protested Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents targeting migrant workers.

“These ICE raids are f—ing nuts man,” Rogan told his guests in a podcast published Wednesday.

Rogan was asked if the raids were nuts or if the protests were nuts.

“All of it is nuts,” he said.

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Rogan didn’t believe a lot of voters in last November’s presidential election would have chosen Trump if he campaigned on targeting migrants employed at home improvement stores and construction sites.

“I don’t think if they, the Trump administration, if they’re running and they said, ‘We’re going to go to Home Depot and we’re going to arrest all the people at Home Depot. We’re going to go to construction sites and we’re going to just like tackle people at constructions.’ I don’t think anybody would have signed up for that.

“They said, ‘We’re going to get rid of the criminals and the gang members first.'”

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Rogan said it was “crazy” that ICE agents are raiding Home Depot stores looking for illegal immigrants to deport.

“Now we’re seeing Home Depots get raided,” he said. “That’s crazy.”

Later in the podcast, Rogan brought up the fact migrants who sneaked across the U.S. border from Mexico as a young person and created a life for themselves didn’t have a path to American citizenship.

“But you’ve actually become integrated in society and you’re part of the American dream,” he said. “It’s just there’s no path (to citizenship) if you’re dirt poor.”

Rogan spoke of a time his landscaper, who told him he walked into the U.S. from Mexico, brought him to a friend’s home for a cookout and backyard chicken fight.

He said there wasn’t an English-speaking sign for blocks in this Los Angeles neighbourhood.

“Completely integrated societies that are a part of L.A. that are fully Mexican, you know,” Rogan said. “But it functions. It works. Going in and raiding those people and putting them in jail because they’ve integrated into society in an illegal way, it seems stupid.”