Immigration enforcement operations on farms have left crops rotting and farm operations disrupted in major agricultural states including California, Texas, and Pennsylvania.
Farm owners and industry representatives report that up to 70 percent of workers stopped reporting to work following Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions, resulting in significant crop losses and financial strain.
“We do not have enough workforce in the United States to do manual work, to do those jobs that other people are not qualified to do and do not want to do it,” Alexandra Sossa, CEO of Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project, told Newsweek. "For example, we are running into a problem where we do not have enough farm workers to grow the food we eat every day.
Hey the thing people along time ago said was going to happen is happening.
We already tried this shit in Florida, with the exact same results, had to dial it way back.
Florida: “Let’s try again on a national level!”
Who could have seen it coming, except those people?
Leopards who have an appetite for faces.
And others?
This is all just so a handful of billionaires don’t have to pay taxes. There’s not that many of them, and they wouldn’t even notice if they paid 90% of their money in taxes.
All part of the general plan to destroy the middle class
After decades of consistent employment and a bachelor’s, I won’t ever break nto the middle class.
I did choose a lot of non profit and conservation work, though. Oh well.
My shot was destroyed by the GFC. Never recovered.
That’s when my student loan debt was at its peak. Great way to start out.
Not ICE raids
Ethnic cleansing
Make America Famished Again
Who’s hungry for the rich?
The raids are bullshit, but at least companies are finally facing some sort of consequence for their institutional, systemic exploitation of migrants.