Who's gonna do the work?
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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
