Officials with Culinary Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165 in Las Vegas see Trump's shifting position as an attempt to thread the needle between his promise of the largest deportation program in American history and appeasing business leaders frustrated by the effects of those deportations.

At the same time, Ted Pappageorge, secretary-treasurer of the Culinary local, said the people Trump put in charge of his immigration program were “as right-wing extreme as you can get.” They’re looking to “purify the country,” he added.

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“Most people didn’t vote for what’s going on right now, and so Trump is in a real pickle and he’s backtracking,” Pappageorge said. “One week he’s saying he’s going to help out the farmers and the hotel companies, the next week he’s saying they’re going to find and deport every single person here that is undocumented.”

Pappageorge also believes that Trump’s attempt at mass deportation, alongside the president’s global trade war, is fueling a slowdown of visitors to Las Vegas.

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“It’s economic chaos and a fear of a Trump recession. That’s what’s going on here,” Pappageorge said. “The stock market is booming, but those aren’t the people that we rely on to fly to Vegas. The average folks … are holding on to their money.”