Last week, ICE was rounding up immigrant workers in agriculture, swooping them up in the fields where they were picking berries and radishes, trimming the vines in vineyards, and preparing the soil for planting. This is backbreaking work. The videos I’ve seen were taken in California, so this must be part of Trump’s focus on crippling the big Blue state.
The slogan of the farm workers’ union, United Farmworkers, is “We feed you.” If they are all detained and deported, who will do the hard work they do?
Farmers in California are typically pro-Trump; some of them must have called Trump to plead that he stop arresting their loyal workers. That would explain why, on Friday, Trump directed ICE to stop arresting agricultural workers, as well as immigrants employed in hotels and the restaurant industry.
Trump heard them and posted this incoherent response on Truth Social:
“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. In many cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!”
Does Trump really believe criminals are slipping across the border to take jobs as farm workers?
Maybe Trump could launch a campaign to persuade MAGA patriots to pick the crops, not only in California but in Florida, Texas, the Deep South, Midwest and other states that voted for him. How many applicants would he get?
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Yep! I would love to see all those white MAGA members working here in the mid-day Texas sun! They would not last a day!
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Those, like Stephen Miller, claim ALL immigrants must go, no matter how long they have been here if they are not citizens by now. His head must be exploding at tRumps reversal of work place raids. It is easy pickings to go to farms, factories, and hotels. His 3K a day arrest quotas are more likely to be achieved from places of work and churches.
For all the loyalists that say Do It, there are plenty of new job openings in the hotel housekeeping, farm fields, and slaughter houses across the country. Go apply! I am pretty certain your job will be guaranteed at minimum wage.
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Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) – Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger
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This heartbreaking song by Woody Guthrie could have been written this afternoon:
Deportee
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting,
the oranges piled in their creosote dumps;
they’re flying ’em back to the mexican border
to pay all their money to wade back again
goodbye to my juan, goodbye, rosalita,
adios mis amigos, jesus y maria;
you won’t have your names when you ride the big airplane,
all they will call you will be “deportees”
my father’s own father, he waded that river,
they took all the money he made in his life;
my brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees,
and they rode the truck till they took down and died.
some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted,
our work contract’s out and we have to move on;
six hundred miles to that mexican border,
they chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts,
we died in your valleys and died on your plains.
we died ‘neath your trees and we died in your bushes,
both sides of the river, we died just the same.
The sky plane caught fire over los gatos canyon,
a fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills,
who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
the radio says, “they are just deportees”
is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
to fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil
and be called by no name except “deportees”?
Songwriters: Woody Guthrie, Martin Hoffman. For non-commercial use only.
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If the supply of cheap illegal migrant slaves was stopped, then yes wages would rise and you could find people to pick the crops. But, lets face it, you like open borders and the wage suppression that guarantees, so here we are. (You pretend your are anti immigration because you are all anti racist etc etc, but, its all about the cheap labor).
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