Have a read - Trump and team are totally disconnected with reality.
Once the US loses its farm labourers, they will face large negative consequences - food shortages - and it will have a ripple affect on us as we'll pay the price in huge price increases and shortages.
The old Roman Emperors knew that without 'Bread and Circuses' the rabble would come for their heads. History loves to repeat itself.
Trump says ‘no amnesty’ for migrant farm workers after industry warns of disruption to food supply
Trump has received complaints from farmers that the administration’s immigration raids have negatively impacted the agricultural industry. Some in the industry have gone so far
as to warn of a disruption in the food supply.
Last week, Trump indicated he may defer to farmers who hire migrants without legal status. During an event in Iowa, he said, “They know better.”
During the speech, Trump said the administration is developing legislation to allow some undocumented migrants to remain in the U.S. to work on farms.
“We've got to give the farmers the people they need, but we’re not talking amnesty,” said the president.
Rollins said the program would protect farmers and ensure they have the workers they need,
but added that it would not deliver amnesty.
I can't underscore enough, there will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way.”
“And we move the workforce toward automation and 100 percent American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid, we should be able to do fairly quickly,” Rollins added.
According to figures from the Department of Homeland Security, roughly 42 percent of farm workers didn’t have legal status between 2020 and 2022.
California farmer Lisa Tate
told Reuters last month, “In the fields, I would say 70 percent of the workers are gone.”
"If 70 percent of your workforce doesn't show up, 70 percent of your crop doesn't get picked and can go bad in one day,” she added. “Most Americans don't want to do this work. Most farmers here are barely breaking even. I fear this has created a tipping point where many will go bust."
Last month, the president appeared on
Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News, saying he wants to help farmers and that the administration would develop a program to hand migrant workers a “temporary pass” to stay in the country.
“I’m the strongest immigration guy that there’s ever been, but I’m also the strongest farmer guy that there’s ever been, and that includes also hotels and, you know, places where people work, a certain group of people works,” said Trump.
“We’re working on it right now,” he added. “We’re going to work it so that, some kind of a temporary pass, where people pay taxes, where the farmer can have a little control as opposed to you walk in and take everybody away.”
So again - zero repercussions to the farmers/owners for hiring illegal immigrants and 'taking away' jobs from Americans but deport, deport and deport all the illegal farm workers that are keeping the entire US (and parts of Canada) with the food they help put on the table.
Roughly 42 percent of farm workers didn’t have legal status between 2020 and 2022
www.independent.co.uk
EDIT:
Rollins suggests Medicaid recipients can replace deported farmworkers
Good luck with that - I've said this a number of times in the past - if the unemployed of Windsor aren't willing to take previously offered, free transportation to Harrow/Kingsville/Leamington for FT jobs at the greenhouses, why would the US expect that their Medicaid receipts would be any better?
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