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RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 3 days ago

Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms at risk

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Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms at risk

www.japantimes.co.jp

RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 3 days ago
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In the vast agricultural lands north of Los Angeles, farmers and field supervisors have said that ICE raids have led a majority of workers to stop showing up.

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  • DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone
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    The wealth, stability, and growth of the US was built first on slavery and then on desperate people willing to work undesirable jobs for less than minimum wage in unpleasant or even hazardous conditions. When those desperate people are rounded up and deported, maybe it’s time to rethink the basis on which this society depends.

    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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      So you’re saying now is the time to right this systemic wrong?

      • DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone
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        150+ years ago is a good time. Now is the second best time.

    • FerretyFever0@fedia.io
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      Socialism music begins playing with increasing intensity

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    It would be a good idea to start paying actual reasonable wages for field work again.

    Then probably there wouldn’t be a shortage of workers there.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    I gotta wonder what this administration does if food prices start climbing again, after a record poor harvest season.

    Presumably, the first step will be to bail out the big agriculture landlords. But then, after that, I have to assume something with soylent.

    • DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone
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      1. Blame Biden
      2. Create or increase tariffs on imported food

      There, problem solved.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      blame someone else.

  • gheesh@lemmy.world
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    Only in California? What about redder states more reliant on agriculture?

  • AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.net
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