surprised Pikachu face
Has anyone figuted out how long it will take for this to affect our food supply? Surely at least prices will increase, if not outright shortages happen?
Fuck these farmers for relying on exploited immigrant labor then playing the victim when the people they voted for take that away from them. No sympathy. The immigration crackdowns are wrong but seriously fuck these guys too.
Yes, the fact that the whole system relies on illegal immigrants is fucked up. Just tells that they’re not willing to pay proper wages. Not to mention the workers’ rights issues.
There needs to be a legal pathway for these workers to become full citizens.
Farmers in CA are largely Trump voters. Just sayin.
From the paywall link:
Lisa Tate is a sixth-generation farmer in Ventura County, California, an area that produces billions of dollars worth of fruit and vegetables each year, much of it hand-picked by immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
Tate knows the farms around her well. And she says she can see with her own eyes how raids carried out by agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the area’s fields earlier this month, part of President Donald Trump’s migration crackdown, have frightened off workers.
“In the fields, I would say 70% of the workers are gone,” she said in an interview. “If 70% of your workforce doesn’t show up, 70% of your crop doesn’t get picked and can go bad in one day. Most Americans don’t want to do this work. Most farmers here are barely breaking even. I fear this has created a tipping point where many will go bust.”
This is the goal. I hope everyone is ready for great depression 2.0
this has created a tipping point where many will go bust
Concepts of a plan
Getting tired of posting pikachus
Now we get to starve great job MAGAts.
Awesome, great opportunity to make farmer worker jobs great again. Everybody should hurry to apply.
