Getting tired of posting pikachus
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.
Farmers in CA are largely Trump voters. Just sayin.
That’s great but if they go bust, we starve.
California should just buy the farmers for pennies when they go bankrupt.
Use it as a way to help people become citizens.
I’m actually kinda concerned that’s part of the plan, but with the federal government instead of state. Plan a big “bailout” that involves buying all the bankrupt farmers and then use that to withhold food from dissidents.
Maybe we can learn to bake.
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.
Absolutely, if it paid well enough people would do it. Same problem as always: “how do I replace my slave labor force if there aren’t other slaves anymore?!”
this has created a tipping point where many will go bust
Concepts of a plan
Now we get to starve great job MAGAts.
Awesome, great opportunity to make farmer worker jobs great again. Everybody should hurry to apply.
