[sysguest]

..except no one had to "adapt" -- those workers were supposed to go back after the set-up work is over, and Americans would get the jobs after the set-up work.

this isn't some low-skill burger-flipping workers staying permanently and replacing a whole career of american citizens' jobs...

US just had to turn a blind-eye, wait until those workers are done with the set-up and leave for good

And now... things got ugly too quick -- I doubt even Trump wanted this.

My pet theory is... this is a classic example of an political double-spy (Tori Branum) being "cooperatively passive-aggressive" (if party a shouts for A, get inside party a, and go to the extreme far-end of A to show A is bad -- though in reality, some middle-ground was what party a was initially aiming for)