GOP Rep. Don Bacon Calls Amnesty Critics “Stupid” and “Hateful” as Republicans Flee His Foreign Labor Bill

Outgoing Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon has launched a scorched-earth attack on American citizens who oppose his push to flood rural America with foreign workers, dismissing legitimate policy concerns as “hate” and “stupidity” even as fellow Republicans quietly abandon the controversial amnesty scheme.

“What polling shows us is that approx 35% HATE all immigrants … And they’re loud,” Bacon declared in a combative July 22 social media post, smearing constituents who reject his corporate-backed labor scheme.

The stakes couldn’t be higher. Bacon’s dismissive rhetoric exposes a fundamental divide in the Republican Party between representatives who serve their constituents and those beholden to cheap-labor business interests.

“It’s time we stand up to stupidity,” Bacon fired back when a former top Trump administration official criticized his support for Pennsylvania Rep. Glen Thompson’s Securing America’s Workforce Act (SAWA). The legislation would dramatically expand the wage-suppressing H-2A visa program while providing legal status to illegal immigrants working for agricultural corporations.

The bill represents a direct assault on American workers.

“This is about replacing entire segments of American agriculture workforce with foreign serf labor,” Rosemary Jenks, founder of the Immigration Accountability Project, explained. The legislation would devastate rural communities by eliminating good-paying jobs, draining local spending power, and forcing young Americans to flee their hometowns. Local businesses—including many Chamber of Commerce members—would collapse under the economic pressure.

Republicans are fleeing the toxic legislation.

Four of 47 GOP co-sponsors have already withdrawn their support: Nebraska’s Mike Flood, North Carolina’s Tim Moore, Georgia’s Brian Jack, and Indiana’s Mark Messmer. More defections are imminent.

“Concerns from constituents, conservative leaders and Nebraska ag producers have made clear that provisions in the Securing America’s Workforce Act are not the right way to uphold our immigration laws,” Flood stated bluntly. “I’m listening, and at a moment when our border is finally secure thanks to President Trump’s leadership, I’m not willing to move forward on anything that could risk our progress.”

The exodus will continue.

William Gheen, president of ALIPAC, a grassroots organization mobilizing against the bill, confirmed additional Republicans are reconsidering their support. “We believe that many of the Republican lawmakers currently co-sponsoring HR 9535 do not know about the Amnesty provisions in the bill and have not thought out the long-term impacts,” Gheen stated. “This Amnesty bill would undermine America’s existing laws, border security, and mass deportation efforts by caving to big agriculture and meat packing lobby interests and selling American workers and taxpayers out once again for the illegal labor lobby.”

Follow the money.

Bacon’s aggressive defense of foreign labor makes perfect sense when examining his political support. The agriculture industry has been a primary financial backer throughout his career. His district encompasses Omaha—a Democratic-leaning city packed with migrant-dependent meatpacking plants that have systematically exploited Biden’s open-border policies to suppress wages and avoid investing in modern technology.

Trump’s America First policies prove there’s a better way.

The President’s low-migration approach is already delivering results. In June 2025, JBS signed a landmark contract providing substantial pay raises, paid sick leave, and pension plans to 26,000 meatpacking workers nationwide. “Groundbreaking Union Contract Brings Major Gains for JBS Workers Across the U.S.,” the headline proclaimed.

“I’ve been working at JBS for 10 years, and when I got the news about the pension, I was excited,” said Thelma Cruz, an employee at the JBS Pork plant in Marshalltown, Iowa. “My husband also works here, and when we retire, we will both get pension checks every month.”

These wage increases ripple throughout the entire economy, helping American families in every sector secure better compensation.

Bacon’s bill would obliterate this progress, allowing meatpackers to bypass American workers entirely by importing foreign labor instead of investing in labor-saving, wage-raising technology that benefits farmers and workers alike.

Bacon’s record exposes his true priorities.

The retiring congressman has consistently championed mass migration into Nebraska’s job, retail, and housing markets—from Afghan refugees to Indian visa workers. He’s currently advocating for 350,000 Haitian migrants to maintain their work authorization, citing concerns from “healthcare providers and business leaders” and the Omaha Chamber of Commerce.

“I don’t see the goodness of deporting people who are here legally, working, and contributing to our country,” Bacon posted on April 15, revealing his fundamental misunderstanding of American workers’ legitimate economic anxieties.

Bacon wraps his corporate agenda in sanctimonious rhetoric.

“Most Americans want a more reasonable and decent policy [and] A Christian policy is more balanced,” he proclaimed in his July 22 attack, attempting to shame critics into silence.

The polling data demolishes Bacon’s narrative.

Americans overwhelmingly reject corporate exploitation of migrants to undercut wages and inflate housing costs. Voters elected Trump precisely to end these destructive policies—not to expand them under false pretenses.

President Trump and his team are charting the correct course.

“We have to get efficient … we’ll probably add to [the existing workforce] through robotically—it’s going to be robotically,” Trump explained. “Then, somebody is going to have to make the robots [so] the whole thing, it feeds on itself.”

This is the winning formula: high-wage automation over low-wage migration. American innovation over foreign exploitation. Economic patriotism over corporate globalism.

The contrast defines the future of the Republican Party.

Bacon’s successor, GOP candidate Brinker Harding—a real estate agent and investor—offers a cautious platform that merely promises to “deport criminal illegal immigrants who commit violent crimes.” Whether Harding will champion American workers or continue Bacon’s corporate servitude remains an open question.

One thing is certain: calling constituents “stupid” and “hateful” for defending American workers represents the dying gasp of establishment Republicans who never understood Trump’s movement.

The Republican Party must choose between serving the American people or serving the cheap-labor lobby. Don Bacon has made his choice clear. Voters will render their verdict.