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.
60% of you Bakersfield fucks voted for this.
May your town go bankrupt.
The results of these actions will affect us far more than those immigrants.
To be fair, this only affects people who eat.
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Thank you for genuinely making me laugh amidst this horror show.
Oh no! The agricultural oligopoly might need to pay employees more to secure a sufficient quantity of labor? Gasp!
Economic devastation is when living wages.
I was in Georgia when they enacted the Live scan law. Let me tell you how it went down. Farmers, as in individual/family farms that weren’t owned by large corps, didn’t have the liquidity to pay more for labor. Those small/medium farms went on the news and begged for people to come and work, talking about how they had stuff rotting on the vine and how most folks wouldn’t even finish out their first day. Mid size farmers aren’t exactly poor, but most businesses don’t survive just not having labor and not turning revenue, and by the end of that first growing season, a whole lot of small and mid-size farms ended up selling the farm to large corps or else just outright shutting down.
There is practically zero chance that the farm industry will start paying living wages overnight. They might could do it, given time, oversight, direction, and aid (there’s A LOT of downward pressure on the prices farms sell at), but it’s just not going to happen in one growing season. Realistically, this could be real, real, real bad. The central valley has a huge ag industry, and we grow a LOT of non-grain crops (except corn) for the rest of the country and the world. There’s some crops, like Pistachios, where the central valley is one of two places in the whole world where there’s meaningful agricultural operations for them. We also produce a lot of the good eating oranges (have you ever eaten a Florida Valencia Orange? They taste like eating pure sour armpit, there’s a reason they make them into juice) and other citrus. So, not only are we going to see food shortages (and some pretty specific food supply shortages for the rest of the world), but probably a lot of the farms around here are going to end up being corporate owned, leaving everyone here poorer and worse off than they were before.
Nah, they’d rather the country starve and they go under than do that
And basic amenities like places to poop, pee, wash your bands and getting raped more gently. Thanks fellow immigrants!
Costco has a peach fire sale! Just $59.99! Per slice! It comes a glass bottle with 3 peach’s in sugar! All American made materials and food. The glass is so strong, you can drop it. That’ll be $543 and 73 cents please! Yes the glass does break when you drop it, we’re just saying that it’s strong and you can drop it, if you want.
Something tells me egg prices aren’t going to go down.
Eating affordable food is woke, we can’t allow it. Living in affordable housing is woke, we can’t allow it. Choices are woke, we can’t allow them. Life is woke, we can’t allow it.
His real estate deals have always been a shitshow, how can anyone sane expect him to handle a national situation
Maybe it will be things like this will start the ball rolling towards the allowing dumber half of America finally see what they stood behind.
So many people are going to suffer for their decision. And while I am generally not the type to wish ill on others, I’m glad that they’re all going to be suffering right along with us. It’s good to know those that caused the oncoming disaster won’t be spared the consequences of their action.
Serves them right.
No one will learn anything. They’ll blame it on someone as always. “Democrats want higher minimum wage so it forced companies to hire immigrants”.
There is always a way to blame it on someone else and idiots will always believe it if someone keeps repeating it.
I’ve a feeling that you’re probably a lot closer to reality on this than I am.
Some people used to put “Biden did this” sticker on everything. In a few… months? weeks? I can see a trend of “you all did this” stickers popping up.
I did that - Trump
Can we stop blaming Trump for companies hiring undocumented workers so they can pay them less? I hate the guy but he didn’t cause this. We can’t allow companies to bypass laws by not paying benefits and taxes to employees.
The problem didn’t appear overnight and trying to “fix” it overnight is going to cause chaos.
Just one example: there was a bipartisan bill a few months ago that had most of the things republicans asked for. Trump pressured the republicans to not vote for the bill because he wanted to campaign on illegal immigration and do this kind of cruel and stupid shit when he got elected.
Trump doesn’t try to fix things, he just likes showy displays of power and cruelty because he’s a fucking asshole.
Then they should hire Americans
They’ve tried. They can’t abuse American workers the way they do immigrant workers.
So should we allow immigrants in illegally so they can be abused?
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.
This is brilliant. Absolutely this should be a thing.
Then no one would hire them
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.
So put a gun to their head and steal it
Yeah, you’re right. We should just abuse the ones already here by putting them in concentration camps- oh wait, that’s the plan!
No the plan is to deport them
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?
Prison, where criminals are kept
Which prison has room for the 20 million people Trump is planning to deport? Please name it.
That should help grocery costs go down, right?!?
Oh right, we should allow them in the country illegally so they can get slave wages to pick cotton… I mean do ag jobs
No, we should make the process for naturalization reasonable and set honest expectations for cost of living.
honest expectations for cost of living.
And how would you do that?
Statistics, history, systemic research, epidemiological inferences, consult and trust experts in the relevant economic, agricultural, and socioeconomic trends. Ya know…normal stuff that’s has been available for ages, but largely ignored in favor of inflammatory hyperbole.
No, we should allow all immigrants. Open the border. I’m not kidding. There can’t be illegal immigrants if they’re all legal.
That’s what’s been going on the last 4 years lol
It literally hasn’t.
It literally has
Source?
So they’re all here as legal citizens? No risk of deportation?
Pretty sure the idea is to use prison labor.
