Trump’s Immigration Plans Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry
newrepublic.com
Immigrant farm workers are too scared to show up to work.

Summary

Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policies, including heightened ICE raids, are disrupting the U.S. agricultural sector.

In California’s Central Valley, a key food-producing region, undocumented farm workers—over half the workforce—are staying home out of fear, leaving crops like citrus unharvested.

Bakersfield saw up to 75% of workers absent, sparking concerns of economic devastation and rising food prices.

ICE is also targeting sensitive areas like schools and churches after rolling back Obama-era protections.

Experts warn these policies could lead to widespread economic repercussions.

  • @Maggoty
    35•1 month ago

    They’ve tried. They can’t abuse American workers the way they do immigrant workers.

    • @nwilz
      -18•1 month ago

      So should we allow immigrants in illegally so they can be abused?

      • @Maggoty
        30•1 month ago

        We should institute an agriculture work visa that includes a Spanish language lesson on their rights and go after the corporations that make them work in the fields while pesticide is being sprayed.

        • WrenM
          3•1 month ago

          This is brilliant. Absolutely this should be a thing.

        • @nwilz
          -17•1 month ago

          Then no one would hire them

          • @Maggoty
            18•1 month ago

            Well they have to hire someone if they want to make money. If they throw us into a food crisis because we won’t let them abuse people then we’ll just nationalize the fields.

              • Flying Squid
                -2•1 month ago

                I wouldn’t be turned on by that. America can legally use prison labor as slave labor.

            • @nwilz
              -4•1 month ago

              So put a gun to their head and steal it

      • Flying Squid
        2•1 month ago

        Yeah, you’re right. We should just abuse the ones already here by putting them in concentration camps- oh wait, that’s the plan!

        • @nwilz
          -7•1 month ago

          No the plan is to deport them

          • Flying Squid
            0•1 month ago

            Where do you think they will put them before they can be deported? You do realize they can’t just stick them on a plane, right? Deportations have to be negotiated, and the country might not want to take them back. So they need to concentrate them in a camp or camps until such time as they can deport them. If they can ever be deported.

            I’m pretty sure there’s a term for a camp where people are concentrated. What do you think that term might be?

            • @nwilz
              -5•1 month ago

              Prison, where criminals are kept

              • Flying Squid
                2•1 month ago

                Which prison has room for the 20 million people Trump is planning to deport? Please name it.

                • @nwilz
                  -6•1 month ago

                  Lol they’re not gonna keep them all in one place at the same time

                  • Flying Squid
                    1•1 month ago

                    So you think that Trump’s plan, despite his claim, is to put a few people who have overstayed their travel visa in prison at a time? With rapists and murderers? How do the people who get imprisoned get chosen?

                    And you do know that prisoners can legally, as per the 13th amendment, be used as slave labor, right?

                    And you’re okay with all that, are you? Slaves getting raped for the crime of staying in a country too long?

                    And then there’s the legal asylum seekers that Trump is also planning on deporting… guess their slavery and rapes are okay too?

        • @nwilz
          -7•1 month ago

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