Summary

President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed mass deportation plan could severely impact California’s agriculture, where many of the farm workers are undocumented immigrants.

Experts warn that deporting these workers could disrupt the U.S. food supply chain, drive up prices, and increase reliance on imports.

California’s $24.7 billion agricultural industry heavily depends on immigrant labor for producing key crops like almonds, strawberries, and lettuce.

Farm worker advocates argue Trump’s immigration policies aim to discourage labor organizing by creating a more vulnerable workforce. California leaders, including Governor Gavin Newsom, are taking steps to safeguard immigrant rights amid growing concerns.

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    6 months ago

    And you thought grocery prices were high now.

    I’m not sure how Trump benefits from this. Sure it causes chaos in the short term, but what’s his actual goal here? Just to trade favors with Russia to keep himself out of prison?

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      The thing is he could do nothing, and then tell his supporters, “I did it! I deported all the bad guys!” And they would cheer and say, “Wow everything is better now. We love Trump.”

      When you’ve convinced the people of a fake problem you can just give them a fake solution. “I scared away the monster under your bed.”

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        Even if it gets worse, it’s not like his supporters will ever make the connection.

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        Unfortunately both the voter and the politician are lying, they aren’t trying to solve a problem, they want actual ethnic clensing. They don’t want to see brown kids of any status legal or otherwise around schools. All there efforts are trying to kill non whites faster and increase white birth rates, while ethnicity clensing non whites. If you aren’t aware of this, welcome to the thing the USA has been doing since 1776.

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        5 months ago

        I think this is the most likely solution. He knows that removing immigrants is bad for the economy, he just needs his racist supporters to believe that he is kicking them out.

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      This one won’t be for Trump, this will be for the cabinet members who are white nationalists.