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.
There are, and people are getting deported despite doing everything right.
ICE is literally arresting people outside of their immigration court hearings. It's fucking cruel.
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.”
Most Americans don't want to do this work.
Well, yeah. Excuse the generalizations, but we don't live 6 to an apartment or farm housing and ship our wages back home where the dollar goes further. We have to survive here long term and farmers don't pay COL, savings, and retirement.
Americans don't do this because it's a bad deal.
Given they also said the farms barely break even mostly means produce doesn't pay well enough to afford a good deal to workers, either. These things should cost quite a bit more but don't thanks to immigrant exploitation.
Not sure what the good deal solution would be, though. Still, people attacking undocumented folk definitely live in a racist fantasy world.
this has created a tipping point where many will go bust
Concepts of a plan
This is the goal. I hope everyone is ready for great depression 2.0
Absolutely nobody could have seen this coming...
Except everyone paying attention.
Thought inflation was bad before? We ain't seen shit yet.
The selection of produce is already getting worse, and has been for months.
In a year we’re going to be in a famine because of this nonsense.
Stock up now while you can still get semi-affordable foods. I started gardening even though I’ve never done it before.
We're a long way from famine. We may have to eat food we're unaccustomed to. We may be forced into vegetarianism. Lots of grains, whatever vegetables can be harvested mechanically. But the amount of food this continent can produce is truly phenomenal.
A garden is a good idea
Happy cake day, seems like you might want to ration that cake though...
Seeing American industries collapse in real time because they were built off neo slavery is fucking wild. And the American right is all "thank god they're gone, they're illegals >:) " and the American left is like "noooo our cheap, expendable, unregulated labour force is being crippled and its hurting businesses >:((" it's like I'm having a fever dream
Source for the 'american left' opinion please, it sounds like projection / bullshit.
The reasoning is the important part of why these two opinions exist. The right has no replacement for the labor so when shit inevitably hits the fan and we end up with at best shortages at worst artificial holodomor style famine they will have been the cause. The left is generally smart enough that as a whole even if they hate the system they aren't stupid enough to more or less collapse it without at least a fallback system if not an outright replacement.
It's the type of irony that occurs with reactionaries on occasion where they attack an actual problem but it's done in such a fucking asinine way where that problems traditional opponents have to defend it.
Thank you! This argument that we should love immigrants because they will "do the work no one else wants" has never sat right with me. It's more like no sane and rational person would do this work, in these conditions, for this pay.
What does it say about us that we need an endless stream of impoverished brown people to make our society functional? We can't build our own buildings, harvest our own crops?
We've got a real nasty history and habit of coerced labor in this country.
Now we get to starve great job MAGAts.
Getting tired of posting pikachus
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?
Read as "leaves cops unharvested" and wow what a horrible image
Awesome, great opportunity to make farmer worker jobs great again. Everybody should hurry to apply.
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