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ICE raids on farms risk food supply chain disruption
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Farmworkers illegally in the US are in hiding
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Crops are unharvested and rotting
Manufactured crisis to enact a police state.
Don’t forget that it’s also bankrupting farms which will allow corporations to buy up the land for pennies on the dollar. Land which they can then work with prison labor (AKA slaves). Trump really is making America great again for white oligarchs, anyway.
Not that it was not great for them before.
First quote is the old lie:
“Most Americans don’t want to do this work“ ( at the wages we want to pay)
It’s not a lie and it’s not really the pay, it’s a terrible job that anyone with any other option is going to skip because it sucks and it ruins your body really really fast.
If it paid $30/hr a lot of people would be able to overlook the downsides.
The business was only viable because it could get people to break their backs for peanuts.
Not just peanuts: They could exploit undocumented immigrants by paying them less than minimum wage and abuse them without having to worry about getting sued or deal with paying unemployment insurance.
Industrial farming will never work without cheap labor so either you perfect robots or you look the other way about migrant labor.
Most countries don’t pay their farm workers below local minimum wage, and yet somehow they produce food.
It is often done by foreign workers, though. Just above board, above or at minimum wage, which goes a lot further in their home countries.
I’m sure the private prisons will offer their services.
Well, yes. That’s what Americans voted for.
Well, the Stupid-Americans did.
They are the majority of those who went voting.
By like 3% maybe.
And those 3% could have been prevented if you got your collective asses up.
The rest of you vote for it every day with your cowardly inaction (making a sign and going to a parade doesn’t count).
NOBODY saw this coming.
can’t wait for conservatives to blame the incoming food crisis on immigrants
