Who's gonna do the work?
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@wtg said in Who's gonna do the work?:
What do you do when the country they're being deported to won't let the planes land?
Better stock up on coffee if you drink Colombian.
Following Petro’s announcement, Trump criticized him on social media while announcing a slate of new sanctions and policies targeting Colombia, including a 25% tariff on all imports from the country, a “travel ban” for Colombian citizens, and a revocation of visas for Colombian officials in the US along with “all allies and supporters.”
Trump also ordered stricter inspections of cargo shipments arriving from Colombia, along with banking and finance sanctions and visa sanctions on “all Party Members, Family Members, and Supporters of the Colombian Government.”
“These measures are just the beginning. We will not allow the Colombian Government to violate its legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the Criminals they forced into the United States!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/26/politics/colombia-tariffs-trump-deportation-flights/index.html
Why does everything have to be turned into a fight and chaos?
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Apparently this is all in accordance with current law:
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Send them to El Salvador.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-eyes-asylum-agreement-el-salvador-deportation-migrants/
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Except Red states will demand expulsion of their workers too. It’s what they voted for.
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@Steve-Miller posted this a few days ago. Raids in California. True, it's a blue state. It also grows a ton of our food.
https://wtf.coffee-room.com/topic/1147/no-oranges-for-you?_=1737819414658
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Maybe not so much any more.
https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/161317/farm-workers-ice-raids-food-prices
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Pennsylvania, too. Even legal workers may leave ag jobs, out of fear, especially if their family is made of of mixed immigration status people.
Iowa.
"Ag will be significantly impacted, because we rely on immigrant labor," said Chad Hart, an Iowa State University agricultural economist. “We learned during COVID-19 that even slowing production down can have dramatic impacts that are felt by consumers across the nation.”
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I predict that u-pick farms will be very popular this summer.
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I would expect the same thing, but my today social media feeds lit up with stories and photos of ICE raids on Mexican restaurants and various businesses in Cleveland, of all places. I’ve done the fact checking I’ve been able to do and the reports appear to be legit, although the papers remain silent.
Pity. I like those restaurants.
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California wonk here.
They’re targeting the Central Valley, where the vast majority of crops are exported, and appear to be ignoring the Imperial Valley where most of the produce is grown for the US market.
Seems odd.
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Dangerous criminals being rounded up.
In the Atlanta suburb of Lilburn, ICE agents arrested Walter Valladares, a 53-year-old undocumented immigrant from Honduras, according to family members who spoke with CNN.
Aside from a ticket for driving without a license, for which he paid a fine, Walter Valladares had no criminal record, his brother Edwin Valladares told CNN. He worked in construction and lived in Lilburn alongside his wife and four children, Edwin Valladares said.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/26/politics/chicago-immigration-trump-ice/index.html
