New objective for ICE. They can be reassigned to pick fruit when they have rounded up everyone who is currently doing it. Should go well. They are all hard workers... right?
Apparently the convicted felon does not remember that during his first administration misguided policies the produce started rotting in the fields ad there was no one to harvest them. The national guard should have be called to get ICE members into the fields.
It has already started. Restaurants are closing. Wait times are drastically increasing. Inflation is returning. He is destroying this once-great country.
They won’t show up. Raids aren’t necessary. They know they would be easy targets, so they will stay away from farms. No one will be available for harvesting.
I worked fruit sheds in the 70s. Started swamping (grunt, loading freight cars), moved up to forklift. The only white guy. Lines of Hispanic women and men; pickers - the women, pulling culls and boxing - and swampers (grunts). Trump's policies will destroy agra-business.
Well MAGA morons are losing their jobs in a FAFO moment maybe they will be willing to get out there and work 14 - 16 hour days and then all live in one big building night after night with 30 - 40 other ppl. After this month I promise you ppl are going to start feeling the increases in the stores.
When I first moved to Portland, had a down time, picked cukes on Sauvie's Island for two days.....before my hands were screaming from the nettles and my back froze up. Hah, I wanna watch rows of Meal Team Magas out in the fields. Bring popcorn.
Me too. I had a housemate from Mexican that was illegal and one of the drunks in the neighborhood was trying to turn it into a big deal. I pointed out the guy took damn near 75% of his check and sent it to support his wife and two kids week after week. Not buy beer or drugs let most ppl in the hood.
I have stood in lines at the neighborhood corner store watching them Western Union money back to their families. They would cash their check and immediately wife the money... Still in dirty dusty ass work clothes. Then they would get a case of beer and leave. No liquor or weed papers!!
I'm the only white guy on the block. And each one of my Hispanic neighbors is a hard working family. Their kids go to school, they're buying homes, paying taxes. And now....they're hunted by goons on the basis of their race. I'm sure that sounds familiar.....what a nasty country we are.
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