Trump’s immigration crackdown has made many immigrant farm workers scared to go to work
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 US 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 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in the area’s fields earlier this month, part of Donald Trump’s immigration 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.“
Make food greatly expensive again! Thanks trump!
Pack on a few pounds now. Food’s about to get cripplingly expensive
Wish the corps and field owners hiring undocumented immigrants for chump change would be penalized. These farm workers are doing intensive labor and deserve way more pay.
Better yet, put every maga asshat out in the fields. This is exactly what they wanted right? Immigrants out of US jobs. I’m sure they are lining up right now.
I’ve got an idea, what if the landowners loaned plots of the farm to smaller farmers, and those farmers would pay off that loan by sharing their crops with the owner? you could even manage your conditional employees with an app, called Tuber or something
If you needed the labor you would do something, protest or talk to your rich friends to stop it.
But since neither you or the US citizens don’t really care, don’t complain.
Those articles are a spam, lead to nothing that we already know.This is bringing all the liberals out. Why are you ok with underpaid labour?
This brings that, this brings this, Trump said that, Trump did this. Not worth the spam since you change nothing.
I have no clue what you’re trying to say.
Isnt this what a national guard should be used for. They should be protecting California crops from Ice. Our country will loss so much in produce because of these ice raids that will ruin billions of dollars of food.
Initially I thought you meant the National Guard should be planting/picking crops…
No, that’s the National Gardeners.
So the national guard should be used to make sure farmers get to keep their slave labor?
ICE shouldn’t be doing what they’re doing, but if farmers paid their workers a living wage this wouldn’t be an issue.
if only ICE forced the owners to pay a fair wage, “wait no thats communism!” better arrest the workers instead its easier
The National Guard should be out picking the crops, defending the nation’s food supply.
I can definitely agree there
These ICE agents who are the same people who love to screech “THEY TAYKIN ER JERRBBZ” are…literally taking people’s jobs
They took our jobs!!!
DEY TERK ER JERBS!
The US will reap what it sowed and it won’t be pretty.
Source: US citizen, currently
It is time for a reckoning that should have happened after the Civil War.
Trump: … US citizen SO FAR. Shut up or you’ll be covfefed in a second. The US is beautifully great again! Even my friend Putin agrees.
The way things are going, “US citizen” is about to get changed to “US subject”.
No they won’t. They deported the reapers
The only one we have left is grim.
He’s been here on a work visa for a single hamster soul for decades now.
I heard hes now endebted to a couple of kids becsuse of it.
Maybe they can get some of those J6 Nazis to go harvest?
Prisons: "hey inmates, we have a field trip for you today!“ …and every other day while we are getting paid for your labour
California has a reputation for being liberal, leftist, and progressive… but remember that the vast, overwhelming majority of farmers in the state are as fascist and blindly, religiously Republican as the most red parts of the most red states. They voted for this.
They wanted to keep THEIR illegal workers. They just wanted everyone ELSE’S to be deported. Hypocrisy is live and well in the US.
They also voted against slave labor (not only the farmers, but the liberal progressive rest of the state).
And still the morons believe Trumps “Come unto me” bullshit.
US agriculture will collapse and the void will be filled by Silicon Valley tech bros with their vertical farms backed by VC money. Elon Musk’s brother owns a vertical farming business and Peter Thiel has invested in lab grown meat companies. Remember the goal of these techno fascists is to create sovereign territories aka “Freedom Cities”within the US, and agriculture is vital to make such a thing a reality.
Lol
Why isn’t Lisa Tate being arrested for labor law violations?
Cuz she’s the exploiter. The US only punishes the exploited. Especially if they’re not white.
Anything to keep Stephen Miller happy, eh?
