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ICE Is Raiding Farms Again - Truthdig

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How come they don’t raid country clubs, golf resorts or large hotels? Especially down in Florida.
- The same reason that the people employing 'illegal aliens' never go to jail.
I'm a dairy farmer. A lot of my friends and associates are too. Our community is built on immigrant labor.
This is wrecking shit. The paranoia is at levels you cant imagine. The workers are scared. The owners are scared. Regardless of income level or status, everyone is stressed to say the least.
The only consolation I have had was, just this past weekend, I got to look at my neighbor who was stressing and venting about what he will do when ice shows up. And I looked this man dead in the eyes and told him "you got exactly what you voted for, and exactly what you supported"
And he looked at me and agreed. "Yeah, you are right" he was defeated. To say that to me is an acknowledgement of absolute defeat.
It's funny It sounds nice to think "I warned you". That smug superiority sounds good in your mind. It's vindication. It's another thing entirely to watch you community terrified to move because they collectively fucked up. Vindication doesn't help the people kidnapped from your community. The destruction of generations of work and mutual cooperation.
What a fucking shitty consolation prize.
That's what I consider a lose-lose scenario. The farms and food processing sites will seriously suffer, but their owners will probably double down with slogans like "Why did Biden drive away our workers?"
Isn't harvest season in the USA just around the corner? (Asking for a friend)
- July is prime fruit harvesting time across the lower 48 US States.
  Off the top of my head: In July we harvest corn, beans, squash, zucchini, cucumber, avocados, tomatoes, peaches, plums, blueberries, cherries and rhubarb.
  100% sure I am missing dozens more, but that's the limit of what my family's farm has grown over the decades.
  edit: Typo and misspelling.
  
  The "asking for a friend" part is usually a sign of sarcasm. Still like your extensive answer though. Thanks for that. For what I know, Harvesting usually has a narrow timeframe. It requires a big staff in a short period of time. These raids will affect the harvest, much can/will fail. Assuming availability abroad, there are tariffs when importing. What where they thinking?
Can't wait to see food prices go insane.
How long until they're forcing prisoners to work the fields?
Or is the plan to just kill as many of us as possible through social murder?
- I heard it is already happening in CA migrant camps. They’re selling the migrant labor and giving them only 1$ a day. It costs $5 to make one phone call.
- Heh. Most of the guards are Latino.
- Well, I heard he does not rule out deporting natives with criminal, behavior so a chain-gang in the fields isn't likely to happen either.

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