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ICE raids leave crops unharvested at California farms: ‘We need the labor’
(www.theguardian.com)
Make food greatly expensive again! Thanks trump!
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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
Pack on a few pounds now. Food's about to get cripplingly expensive
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.
The National Guard should be out picking the crops, defending the nation’s food supply.
I can definitely agree there
if only ICE forced the owners to pay a fair wage, "wait no thats communism!" better arrest the workers instead its easier
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.
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.
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".
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).
These ICE agents who are the same people who love to screech "THEY TAYKIN ER JERRBBZ" are...literally taking people's jobs
Then pay living wages. It's hard to feel sorry for you when you're crying about losing your slave labor.
This is a problem that's been brewing for a long time. Their business model is untenable at the scale they're at without relying on near slave labour. Their massive profits come more from scale, than absolute margin, so if they actually payed a living wage they'd be in the red.
So now y'all will have to wait until the coming food shortages drive up prices before the pay is enough to interest other Americans that'd otherwise have no interest in those sorts of jobs.
The owners won't play ball without getting their pound of flesh.
We could subsidize the farms that grow actual food crops picked by humans at a high enough rate that the food is affordable and the workers are paid reasonably well. And do that instead of subsidizing farms that grow feed corn, ethanol corn, and grain/soy for export.
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what’s wrong? no labor? pay more.
Have you seen American history? We will do anything we can to not have to pay for labor. Even after slavery, using gray area immigrants has been commonplace for well over a century. Anything to save a buck.
The best outcome at this point would be to build machines that can harvest all the various unique crops to break the cycle, we may even be technologically advanced to finally do it, if we don't destroy ourselves first.
How do other countries handle food harvesting labor? I'll research in parallel, but curious, I've never actually thought about that question before.
capitalism. the problem is not american history but instead capitalism. it needs to go.
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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.
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Bout time for them farmers to pull up their bootstraps and get out into their fields. Get to work! Those pesky immigrants are no longer in your way
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
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