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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.

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 3 weeks ago

Hey the thing people along time ago said was going to happen is happening.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

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!"

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Who could have seen it coming, except those people?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Leopards who have an appetite for faces.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

And others?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

All part of the general plan to destroy the middle class

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

My shot was destroyed by the GFC. Never recovered.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

That's when my student loan debt was at its peak. Great way to start out.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Make America Famished Again

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Not ICE raids

Ethnic cleansing

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Who’s hungry for the rich?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

The raids are bullshit, but at least companies are finally facing some sort of consequence for their institutional, systemic exploitation of migrants.

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