Lisa Tate, a Ventura County, California, farmer talks about what's happening on farms in that county, where fruit and vegetables are grown to supply the whole country:
“'In the fields, I would say 70% of the workers are gone,' she said in an interview. 'If 70% of your workforce doesn’t show up, 70% of your crop doesn’t get picked and can go bad in one day.'"
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #ICE #WorkForce #agriculture #FoodChain
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theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
Ice raids leave crops unharvested at California farms: ‘We need the labor’
Trump’s immigration crackdown has made many immigrant farm workers scared to go to workGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"'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.'“
Why is this happening, this disruption of a significant agricultural process that helps feed the entire nation? Lisa Tate is clear-eyed on that point:
It's happening because of Trump and ICE, because immigrant workers are being terrorized.
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #ICE #WorkForce #agriculture #FoodChain
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Comparing the detention camps to similar programs in other countries, [Timothy] Snyder warns that incarcerated workers will likely be offered to employers on special terms, a concept Trump appears to have embraced with his suggestion that the administration will figure out how to put workers back in the fields and businesses by putting them under the authority of those hiring them."
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #SlaveLabor
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.…
July 5, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)Arthur van der Harg
in reply to William Lindsey • • •dch
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troy_friz_zell
in reply to William Lindsey • • •It's happening because Republicans are fascists.
Republicans.
All of them.
Scooter8647 🇺🇦 🇳🇿
in reply to William Lindsey • • •