Around 75% of immigrant farm workers in Bakersfield, California, ditched their shifts after Trump ramped up his threats by removing protections against ICE raids in “sensitive areas,” including schools and workplaces.

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    7 days ago

    Mmm, can’t wait to pay $15 for produce. Fucking idiot Americans voting against their own interests.

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      6 days ago

      Let me start to say that I’m on our side (probably), but are you implying that you want those workers to be underpaid and have no worker rights so your produce price stays low?

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      I think the real issue is we’re using undocumented immigrants to do these jobs. They don’t get the same protections that legal workers get.

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        Absolutely, but we are well past people using logic and reason. We wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place, and we could have spent time actually solving legal immigration (among many other things) instead of years of focus on her emails and all the nonsense of 2016-2020.

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        That may be an underlying issue but when the baby is incessantly screaming and crying, it doesn’t help to throw boiling water on it

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        Anyone I know who voted for trump for “economic reasons” are people I know to have the weakest grasp on what economic factors determine the price of eggs.