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.
i mean… trump sucks…
but if an entire industry relies on exploiting undocumented workers, then i’m not sure trump is the only bad guy here
It’s almost as if we’re seeing the end result of decades of bad immigration policy.
Maybe if everyone knows a law sucks, and no one obeys the law because it sucks, and a huge chunk of our ability to not have famine is based on not obeying that law… maybe, just maybe that law should change to one that people can obey without anybody starving to death.
That would be less profitable.
That’s probably the only good thing about Trump. Trump is so brazen with fucking around that the rest of America gets to experience the finding out part. Trump is fucking with illegal immigration and America is about to find out how much they depend on illegal immigrants (because I doubt it’s only this one industry).
He could offer these immigrants some sort of work for citizenship plan or start treating them like fellow humans.
I mean, I agree megacorps making bank off the back of undocumented workers is horrible, but one way to solve that is to grant them citizenship, let them vote and form unions.
This ^
The answer is open boarders and the elimination of our foreign intervention. All the reasons for hard boarders are antiquated and are used to divide the working class. You have more in common with any working class person from anywhere than any wealthy individual.
Wouldn’t have to be citizenship either, just anything acknowledging them as humans whom are there to work. But Trump doesn’t dö smart
The industry only relies on cheap labour because farmers aren’t getting their fair share of the upstream profits.
Capitalism
Absolutely.
Framing this whole thing as if we would be rallying behind the mega corps who run on (what should be completely illegal) exploitation is a bit weird.
At the same time, let those who immigrated here enjoy the benefits of being a human in America. Our President of the United States of America needs to stop demonizing brown people. Help them instead.
At the end of the day it’s a lose lose situation. Those of us in the states pay more for our food (or just have shortages) and the ones working the field get kicked out.
Lose lose for you maybe… Fuck everyone else I guess.
Both are bad, but this is only making everything worse.