7mo ago

A Trump-Voting Farmer's Warning: Mass Deportations Would Be a Disaster

financialpost.com

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Should have thought about that first you racist troglodyte lmao
It's like the guy married to a lady from South America waiting for her immigration papers voting for Trump: those "Trump-voting farmers" knew full well what their racehorse intended to do, yet they bet on him, he won, and now they're bitching and moaning.
I dunno but... What in the name of all that's holy is wrong in those people's noggins??
- Because they honestly believe there is a mass of "bad immigrants" who Trump will be going after and not the "good ones" they know.
  
  FTFY: they ~~know~~ own.
Of course they would be, which is why they're not going to happen.
The deportations serve three main purposes:
They appeal to Trump's racist base and further divisions between the people broadly.
They establish precedents for the detention of whoever the Trump administration declares to be rightfully detained (which will certainly not be limited to, or even primarily, undocumented immigrants).
They make the remaining undocumented immigrants just that much more desperate and willing to endure oppression.
To fulfill those purposes, there's no need to deport all undocumented immigrants or even any really significant percentage of them. All that's necessary is to make the deportations that will happen as merciless and vivid and well publicized as possible.
And once those purposes have been served, the program can be quietly moved out of the spotlight and American businesses can take advantage of the cheap labor provided by undocumented immigrants who are even more desperate than they were before Trump took office.
- I don’t appreciate that people are still under the assumption that Trump cares about the success of America or is trying to preserve it.
  The tariffs contradict all of the conclusions you just drew and so does the psychopaths he put in charge of the deportations and handed a blank check too.
  
  Trump could hand over the US nuclear codes to Putin on live TV and people would still be making excuses.
THEN YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE VOTED FOR THE MAN WHO PROMISED TO DO THAT YOU WORTHLESS IGNORANT FUCK
Mass deportations of farm labour makes the price of domestically produced food skyrocket, then tariffs make the price of imported food prices skyrocket.
Good times are going to be had for sure. Hopefully their suffering will teach them, but I wouldn't get my hopes up unfortunately
- Hopefully their suffering will teach them, but I wouldn’t get my hopes up unfortunately
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- It's obviously a punishment from god for not persecuting the gays hard enough.
He should talk to the central CA farmers who just had this year's irrigation water flushed down the toilet by the Army Corps of Engineers on drumpf's order.
- well, that's one way to lower the demand for low-cost labor. they ain't gonna be needing as much.
So they didnt want them deported, and wanted them.....so they wanted to own them?? Like they were just voting to make slaves again, I swear all the MAGA people said this wasnt a thing for them....
- Slavery is alive and well with convict labour. A big incarceration push will follow in farming country
Didn't this already happen in Florida when DeSantis tried to get rid of immigrants and all the farmers there lost their shit over losing their work force?
- Florida, Arizona, Alabama, Georgia. They all tried it, they all fucked around and found out but they never let facts stop them.
  Who would have thunk that White Republicans are too soft for farm work.
You mean the ones that are already happening?

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