Donald Trump’s Deportation Plan Causes ‘Panic’ Among Farmers who can’t find enough workers

What you're talking about is not a "work release program", dumbass.

It's the equivalent of prison chain gang labor.

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Nope,...dumb ass who voted for a loser like Kamala Harris who got her fat ass kicked,...this TOO you are wrong about.
 

(Bloomberg) — President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of mass deportations risks hurting US agriculture, dealing an additional blow to a sector already struggling with labor shortages and bracing for trade disputes.


It definitely has an impact,” the chief executive officer said during an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Balance of Power.” “It’s still a very human-intensity business that we’re in.”

While the rural US has seen some population growth in recent years, it experienced an overall loss of population in the prior decade, according to the US Department of Agriculture. That makes the labor dilemma even more challenging as older farmers and ranchers find it tougher to pass down operations to younger family members.

The effect of deportations could be especially acute in areas such as California, which abounds in specialty crops like fruits, nuts and vegetables and relies on seasonal workers from Mexico and other countries. The USDA has said nearly half of hired crop farmworkers lack legal immigration status.

The grain and soybean-dominated Midwest also could be at risk, according to Carstens. The region depends in part on the government’s H-2A program that allows certain US employers to bring foreign nationals into the country to fill temporary agriculture jobs.

Trade Tension On the trade front, any new tariff clash with China — the world’s largest importer of agriculture products — would hit American growers as they battle lower demand for exports and a plunge in crop prices. “When you lose volume like we have to China, that has a long-term ripple effect, and it’s hard to recover from,” Carstens said. Rural communities overwhelmingly backed Trump in his election win last week over Kamala Harris, even after a trade war with China during his first term put US growers at risk of losing global market share in the long run. Soybean sales alone to the Asian nation plummeted by almost 79% in the first two years of Trump’s presidency, though $28 billion in subsequent farm aid eased the pain.

Well over a decade ago when Republiclowns launched one of their attacks on immigration and reduced the number of workers available to do agricultural labor (field hands) I read an article in Forbes Magazine about farmers in Washington state having to choose between which crops they'd harvest and which ones they'd have let rot on the ground.

When asked why they couldn't hire Americans at a good wage to do the work, the answer then was the same as it was on the news a couple of nights ago.... Americans just will not do that kind of work at any wage. Offer them $30 per hour and they still wouldn't do it. The ones who respond to the ads work a half a day then haul ass by lunch without even picking up their pay.

The way these things usually work is that right-wingers make a lot of noise about deporting brown people who talk funny just to fire up the morons for an election then after they get in office, lobbyists for industries which use immigrant labor convince them to back off.
 
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Nope,...dumb ass who voted for a loser like Kamala Harris who got her fat ass kicked,...this TOO you are wrong about.

I guess dumbasses like you who voted for a loser like trump who got his fat ass kicked in 2020... were wrong about that like everything else.

"Debating" with no-brainer rednecks like you is a waste of time and effort.

You don't know shit about anything.

At least we didn't shit our drawers and throw a mass temper tantrum like you losers did.
 
Finding farmworkers from outside of America, as we have done successfully for many decades, gets a lot harder when the Regime hands out several thousands of dollars a month in cash and benefits to illegals, demanding no work.

We did it to ourselves, and it has nothing to do with possible deportations, which are unlikely to happen to a significant degree.
Plus a lot of migrant farm workers are working in jobs like construction taking those jobs from Americans. We can allow enough J visas to allow migrant farm workers to return for farming jobs.
 
Plus a lot of migrant farm workers are working in jobs like construction taking those jobs from Americans. We can allow enough J visas to allow migrant farm workers to return for farming jobs.
Maybe.....I will point out that farmers/ag industry saw this problem coming......they have been spending a lot of money on automation.....I am not up to date on how successful this has been.
 
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