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Written by MicheleV_AK on 2025-01-24 at 21:54

Farmworkers are NOT showing up for work because of this! Food will rot in the fields and prices will go up.

“We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting. This sent shockwaves through the entire community,” said Casey Creamer, president of the industry group California Citrus Mutual, on Thursday. “People aren’t going to work and kids aren’t going to school. Yesterday about 25% of the workforce, today 75% didn’t show up.”

He pushed back on the Border Patrol’s claims they’re targeting bad people. He said they appeared to be general sweeps of workers...“If this is the new normal, this is absolute economic devastation,” said Richard S. Gearhart, an associate professor of economics at Cal State-Bakersfield...“So, you WILL see, in the long run, food inflation and food shortages,” he wrote in a text message."

[#]HumanRightsAbuses #FOTUSInflation

https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/surprising-immigration-raid-kern-county-foreshadows-what-awaits-farmworkers-and-businesses

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Written by The Drop Bear 2.0 on 2025-01-24 at 22:13

@MicheleV_AK I mean, who could have predicted this 🤷‍♀️ Those poor people must be terrified

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Written by NotMaddie! on 2025-01-24 at 22:16

@MicheleV_AK Exactly what the American people voted for. Enjoy your new grocery prices dummies.

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Written by Jargoggles on 2025-01-24 at 23:05

@madrobin @MicheleV_AK

This might surprise you, but people who didn't vote for Trump need food to live, too.

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Written by NotMaddie! on 2025-01-25 at 01:16

@jargoggles @MicheleV_AK We’re all going to feel the pain, sadly

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Written by MicheleV_AK on 2025-01-25 at 04:06

@madrobin @jargoggles Indeed! It's not going to be pretty at all.

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Written by Scooter 🇺🇦 🇳🇿 on 2025-01-24 at 23:42

@MicheleV_AK Ironically, Bakersfield is one of the most MAGA parts of California, Devin Nunes' former district.

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Written by Guillotine Jones, Boulevardier on 2025-01-25 at 00:12

@MicheleV_AK

"Nobody could have seen this coming," said no one who had 2 or more working brain neurons.

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Written by Pēteris Krišjānis on 2025-01-25 at 00:15

@MicheleV_AK predicted perfectly by the book.

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Written by Firehorseart lives! on 2025-01-25 at 00:22

@MicheleV_AK

We've been through the problems of no migrant workers = no-one to pick our food in the UK after Brexit.

It's a bonkers policy. Trained migrant seasonal pickers, working for low wages, can't easily be replaced.

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Written by Ivey Janette McClelland on 2025-01-25 at 01:45

@srfirehorseart @MicheleV_AK They'll hire inmates from the county jail.

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Written by MicheleV_AK on 2025-01-25 at 04:06

@IveyJanette @srfirehorseart I don't know about CA, but in Texas, they will use prisoners as forced labor.

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Written by Lee on 2025-01-25 at 00:59

@MicheleV_AK NO surprise! And tariffs to that and whew!

Americans voted for him and you’re going to get exactly what they deserved

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Written by MicheleV_AK on 2025-01-25 at 04:08

@tleekeene I didn't vote for him, but I get to suffer right along with those who did. Fucking fools!

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