Martha's Vineyard ‘afraid' of losing low-cost labour following ICE raids
'They're afraid that they're not going to have their low-cost labour,' Mr DeAngelis told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
'Now that Trump is trying to go the other way on the same issue and to deport immigrants from Martha's Vineyard, now all of a sudden, they come out with their Trump Derangement Syndrome.
'That's all this is – it's more of a political argument than anything else.'
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