Deportation as Economic Warfare: Trump’s Technofascist Labor Recalibration and the Crisis of Empire

By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information

Introduction

Let’s keep it a buck from the start: Trump’s mass deportation plan isn’t just some side show for the cameras, and it sure as hell isn’t only about “protecting American jobs.” It’s a calculated assault — a weapon aimed straight at the heart of the working class. What we’re staring down is what we call Technofascist Labor Recalibration: the brutal restructuring of the U.S. workforce through deportations, terror, and wage destruction, all dressed up in red, white, and blue.

When Trump talks about deporting millions, he’s not just targeting undocumented workers — he’s setting the stage for a full-blown economic shock therapy. By ripping millions of people out of the economy — many of whom fill essential low-wage, high-exploitation jobs like agriculture and food production — the goal is simple: smash wages across the board, drive fear deep into the bones of every worker, and make it cheap again to “Make America Great.” But this time, greatness looks a lot like sweatshops inside the empire.

The old model of shipping jobs overseas is running out of gas. China’s not playing ball. The Global South is rising. So the U.S. ruling class has a new plan: if they can’t exploit workers abroad as cheaply as they used to, they’ll recreate Third World conditions right here at home. That’s what “reshoring” really means. And they’ve made it clear that they’re ready to rebuild the factories — but without the unions, without the living wages, without the rights. Just pure, uncut exploitation, supervised by drones and cops.

Mass deportations are the opening move. They tear apart the labor force, leave jobs empty, and flood the economy with fear — setting up the perfect storm where even settler workers, once so proud of their whiteness and citizenship, are pushed into accepting starvation wages and broken conditions in the “new” reshored economy. Meanwhile, the rich sit back and watch the scraps get fought over, smiling as they rebuild their empire on the wreckage.

This essay is about understanding the real plan behind the headlines. We’re going to dig into the history of labor repression through deportation, the collapse of the old neoliberal world order, the rise of technofascism, and the cold, brutal logic behind Trump’s so-called immigration strategy. Because what’s coming isn’t just an attack on migrants — it’s an attack on all of us who work for a living. It’s the future of empire if we don’t organize to burn the blueprint.

II. Historical Context: Deportations and Labor Repression in the U.S.

Mass deportations are not some shocking new chapter in U.S. history. They’re a sequel. A reboot of an old story, one where the ruling class uses borders, badges, and guns to break the backs of workers when the economy demands a new “discipline.” To understand what Trump’s deportation machine is really about, we have to look at the long, bloody history of how the U.S. ruling class has weaponized deportation, policing, and racial terror to control labor.

Take the so-called Operation Wetback of 1954. After World War II, Mexican migrant labor had become deeply embedded in the U.S. economy through programs like the Bracero Program. Mexican workers were the backbone of agriculture, railroad construction, and manufacturing — all while being paid poverty wages. But when economic conditions shifted, and settler workers began to demand higher wages and protections, the U.S. government didn’t hesitate. It launched a mass deportation campaign that rounded up over a million people — citizens and non-citizens alike — through racial profiling, military sweeps, and outright terror. The goal wasn’t “border security.” It was labor discipline: to drive down wages, crush worker organizing, and reassert settler control over the economy.

We can go even further back. After the formal end of chattel slavery, the U.S. ruling class didn’t simply set Black workers free into economic equality. Instead, they unleashed a counteroffensive through the Black Codes and the convict leasing system — laws that criminalized Black life itself and re-enslaved hundreds of thousands through prison labor. The message was clear: your labor belongs to the system, or you will be destroyed by it.

This is the real DNA of the American state. From the genocide of Indigenous nations, to the enslavement of Africans, to the annexation and militarization of northern Mexico, the United States was built on the violent reorganization of human labor to feed capitalist accumulation. Mass deportations have always been just another tool in the box — a way to clear the labor field, redraw the lines, and dictate who works, for how much, and under what terror.

Trump’s mass deportation agenda is not a break with this tradition. It is its logical extension. When neoliberal globalization began to crack after 2008 — when financial crises, declining profitability, and imperial overstretch threatened the system — the ruling class faced a choice: democratize the economy or discipline the workers harder. Guess which one they chose?

Mass deportations are a modern Operation Wetback scaled up for the age of drones, biometric surveillance, and predictive policing. It’s a throwback to the oldest playbook the empire knows: racialized labor control through state violence, dressed up today in the language of “law and order” and “border security.”

To pretend this is only about migration is to miss the forest for the trees. This is about reshaping the entire labor market for the next stage of capitalist survival — at the expense of migrants, at the expense of Black and Indigenous workers, and yes, increasingly, at the expense of poor and working-class Euro-Americans themselves.

III. The Current Capitalist Crisis and the Need for Domestic Restructuring

To understand why mass deportations are coming now — and not ten or twenty years ago — we have to look straight into the rotting guts of the global capitalist system. The old game is breaking down. And when the game breaks down, the bosses start flipping the board.

Neoliberal globalization — the model the U.S. ruling class rode to obscene wealth for nearly half a century — is running out of road. The whole setup depended on cheap labor abroad, compliant governments, and unchallenged U.S. financial dominance. But that world is collapsing fast. China refuses to play permanent sweatshop to the West. The Global South is rising in political and economic power. Supply chains are snapping. Financial bubbles are wobbling. And the United States, bloated on debt and empire, can’t bomb its way back to the top like it used to.

The ruling class understands the writing on the wall. They know they can’t maintain their empire by outsourcing production forever. They need to reshore — to bring manufacturing, logistics, and supply chains back inside the borders. Not because they love American workers, but because they fear losing imperial leverage on the global stage.

But there’s a catch. They’re not about to pay American workers what they paid them after World War II. Those days — when a factory job could buy you a house, a car, and a pension — are dead and buried. To make reshoring profitable, they have to smash labor costs to near-Third World levels. They need workers who are desperate, atomized, scared to organize, and willing to accept poverty wages to survive.

That’s where mass deportations come in. It’s not just about kicking out migrants. It’s about detonating a bomb in the labor market — flooding industries with fear, clearing out whole sectors, and forcing the remaining workers — citizens included — into accepting whatever scraps are offered under the new regime. It’s about resetting the domestic economy to favor capital, not labor. To drive the working class — Black, Brown, migrant, settler — back into the conditions of colonial subjugation, but this time inside the empire’s own borders.

This is not just a new business model. It’s a war plan. A war against the working class to recalibrate the whole foundation of American capitalism for survival in a multipolar world. It’s cheaper to terrorize and impoverish your own workforce than to let China, BRICS+, and the Global South slip out of your grasp. Deportations are just the first shots fired in that war.

We are living through the opening moves of a brutal domestic restructuring — one that will not stop with migrants. If allowed to succeed, it will engulf every worker who isn’t part of the ruling class’s increasingly narrow vision of who deserves a future in the empire they plan to salvage from the wreckage.

IV. Technofascism: The New Form of Class Rule

When the old ways of managing society — elections, PR campaigns, corporate media lies — stop working, the ruling class doesn’t just give up. They adapt. They build something meaner, colder, and deadlier. That something is technofascism.

Technofascism isn’t just old-school fascism with better Wi-Fi. It’s the fusion of monopoly capital, digital surveillance, militarized policing, and settler colonial violence into a seamless machine of control. It’s capitalism in crisis, stripped of its polite mask, armed with drones, algorithms, and private mercenary armies.

Under technofascism, the state’s job isn’t to balance competing interests anymore — it’s to enforce the rule of capital by any means necessary. Surveillance isn’t a sideline; it’s the central nervous system. Policing isn’t about “public safety”; it’s about preemptively smashing dissent before it can breathe. Borders aren’t about “sovereignty”; they’re about constructing an internal prison where labor can be divided, disciplined, and disposed of at will.

Mass deportations are the soft opening. They tear communities apart. They flood workplaces with terror. They test and sharpen the state’s capacity for rapid repression — biometric tracking, predictive raids, mass roundups. But what starts with migrants won’t end there.

When the time comes — and it will — these tools will be turned inward on everyone who doesn’t fit neatly into the new imperial caste system. The lumpenized poor. The abandoned settler working class. Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities that refuse to bow their heads. Even sectors of the petty bourgeoisie who won’t march in lockstep. Deportation raids today are the dry run for drone strikes, disappearances, and domestic military occupation tomorrow.

Historically, the U.S. racial order offered crumbs to the settler working class to buy loyalty: land, higher wages, a seat at the capitalist table. But those days are ending. The white ruling class, desperate to preserve its empire, is ready to abandon wide swaths of its own settler base — starting with the deproletarianized white lumpen, moving through the traditional white working class, and even slicing off chunks of the labor aristocracy if necessary.

Technofascist Labor Recalibration isn’t just about creating a terrorized underclass of migrants. It’s about remaking the entire domestic workforce — settlers included — into something leaner, cheaper, more frightened, and easier to control. It’s about imposing Third World conditions inside the empire to compete with a multipolar world the U.S. can no longer dominate by bluster and bombs alone.

Mass deportations are just the first domino. The goal is clear: smash resistance before it can form, break solidarity before it can grow, and recalibrate the working class to serve imperial survival at home while waging endless war abroad. Unless we organize and fight back, the colony will come home — and all of us will be its subjects.

V. How Deportations Serve Technofascist Labor Recalibration

Mass deportations aren’t just a sideshow to please the MAGA mobs. They are a central pillar of the economic war the ruling class is waging against all of us. They are the engine driving Technofascist Labor Recalibration — the brutal reshaping of the working class to fit the desperate needs of a collapsing empire.

Here’s how the machine works:

1. Purging Key Sectors of the Workforce

Deportations target industries that rely heavily on immigrant labor: agriculture, construction, food processing, logistics, manufacturing. These industries are the backbone of any attempt to “reshore” production back into the U.S. But before reshoring can happen, the bosses need to clear out workers who might resist the new regime of wage slavery. They need a blank slate — a workforce too scared, too isolated, and too desperate to fight back.

2. Terrorizing the Broader Working Class

When millions of people are ripped from their jobs and communities, it sends a message loud and clear: no one is safe. Even those with papers, even those born in the U.S., learn fast that organizing, striking, or even speaking out can put a target on their back. Deportations create an atmosphere of permanent fear, where solidarity is dangerous and silence is survival.

3. Driving Down Wages Across the Board

With sectors cleared out and fear flooding the economy, wages collapse. Workers — immigrants, Black, Brown, Indigenous, and even settler poor — are forced to accept whatever scraps are thrown at them. The new reshored economy won’t offer union jobs with pensions. It’ll offer temp contracts, algorithmic monitoring, and paychecks that barely cover rent. Deportations grease the gears of this transition by smashing collective bargaining before it can start.

4. Deepening Racial and National Divisions

Mass deportations weaponize racism as an economic tool. They feed settler resentment, painting migrants as “illegals” who must be expelled to “save American jobs” — even as wages fall for everyone. They split the working class along racial and national lines, ensuring that instead of fighting their real enemy — the bosses — workers are pitted against one another in a bitter, violent scramble for survival.

5. Building the Infrastructure of Domestic Counterinsurgency

Every ICE raid, every detention center, every surveillance database built to hunt migrants today will be turned inward tomorrow. The machinery of deportation is the same machinery needed to crush uprisings, suppress strikes, and neutralize political dissent. Deportations allow the state to normalize paramilitary policing, biometric tracking, and mass internment — all under the guise of “protecting America.”

Technofascist Labor Recalibration is not a side effect of deportations. It is the goal. By purging, terrorizing, impoverishing, dividing, and surveilling the working class, the ruling class clears the way for a new era of colonial-style exploitation inside the heart of the empire. Mass deportations are simply the first hammer blow — with many more to follow if we don’t organize to break the machine before it breaks us.

VI. The White Ruling Class and the Settler Colonial Project

None of this — not the mass deportations, not the labor terror, not the descent into technofascism — makes any sense unless we put it in its proper historical context: the United States is, and always has been, a settler colonial empire.

From the moment Europeans set foot on Indigenous land, the American project has been about conquest, extermination, and exploitation. The white ruling class rose to power not through industry alone, but through the theft of land, the enslavement of African people, the annexation of Mexican territory, and the ruthless division and disciplining of labor along racial lines. Capitalism in the United States has always been built on a colonial foundation — and that foundation demanded a labor system soaked in terror and divided by color.

Mass deportations today are a direct continuation of that project. They are not a betrayal of American “values” — they are the fulfillment of its oldest values: white supremacy, labor exploitation, and imperial domination.

But there’s a twist. Unlike in earlier eras, the white ruling class is no longer offering broad material bribes to the white settler masses. The New Deal is dead. The postwar boom is dead. The suburban dream is dead. What remains is a triage operation. The ruling class is slicing off chunks of its own settler population — the poor, the lumpenized, the downwardly mobile — and preparing to throw them into the fire alongside the colonized and the migrant.

This is not the end of settler colonialism. It is its mutation into a more desperate, more violent form — one where whiteness alone will no longer guarantee safety, but where colonial logic will still shape who is policed, who is worked to death, and who is thrown away.

By purging migrants, smashing wages, and militarizing the economy, the white ruling class is trying to reboot the colonial engine that built the empire in the first place. They are attempting to create an internal Third World inside the imperial core — a society stratified by race, class, and surveillance, where a loyal managerial caste enforces order, and the majority are kept in a state of permanent precarity and fear.

Mass deportations are not just about managing labor. They are about defending empire. About preserving stolen wealth. About suppressing the seeds of rebellion before they can grow. About ensuring that, even as the global order shifts and the empire’s grip weakens, the domestic population remains too broken, divided, and terrorized to resist.

Trump’s deportation campaign, and the broader technofascist project it belongs to, is not an aberration. It is the logical outcome of a settler empire facing its own decline — and doing what settler empires always do when the walls close in: doubling down on violence, division, and terror to cling to what they cannot keep forever.

VII. Conclusion: Weaponizing Theory for Struggle

Mass deportations are not just another cruelty piled onto a cruel system. They are a blueprint for the future the white ruling class is trying to build — a future of fear, division, terror, and total labor subjugation inside the heart of the empire.

Technofascist Labor Recalibration is not a side effect of Trump’s policies. It is their core logic. It is the strategy the ruling class has chosen to survive the death spiral of neoliberal globalization. If they cannot extract cheap labor abroad, they will recreate the conditions of the periphery here at home. If they cannot rule through consent, they will rule through surveillance, policing, and organized terror. If they cannot buy settler loyalty with material comfort, they will enforce it through scapegoating, division, and despair.

Mass deportations are only the first strike. What begins with migrant workers will metastasize across the entire working class. Black workers. Indigenous workers. Poor settlers. Lumpens. Anyone who stands in the way of empire’s recalibration will be targeted, crushed, or disappeared.

That’s why understanding the real meaning of Trump’s deportation campaign is not academic. It is a matter of survival. Without a revolutionary analysis, we will be picked apart sector by sector, community by community, until resistance becomes impossible. But if we recognize this for what it is — a systemic attack on the entire working class in the service of imperial survival — we can begin to forge new alliances, build new solidarities, and strike at the heart of the technofascist project before it consolidates its power.

We must reject the false divisions they throw at us. We must reject the poisonous logic that says some workers are “illegal” and others are “deserving.” We must recognize that their borders, their prisons, their drones, and their surveillance grids are all part of the same machinery — and that none of us are free until all of us are free.

The era of liberal illusions is over. We are entering the era of open class war. The only question that matters now is whether we will fight like an organized class or perish as scattered, broken individuals.

Technofascism can be defeated. But only if we understand its nature, weaponize that understanding, and move with the urgency that history demands. No deportations. No recalibration. No surrender.

Organize. Resist. Recalibrate the struggle — before they recalibrate our lives into oblivion.