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ICE raids on US farms leaves crops rotting (www.newsweek.com)

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Immigration enforcement operations on farms have left crops rotting and farm operations disrupted in major agricultural states including California, Texas, and Pennsylvania.

Farm owners and industry representatives report that up to 70 percent of workers stopped reporting to work following Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions, resulting in significant crop losses and financial strain.

"We do not have enough workforce in the United States to do manual work, to do those jobs that other people are not qualified to do and do not want to do it," Alexandra Sossa, CEO of Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project, told Newsweek. "For example, we are running into a problem where we do not have enough farm workers to grow the food we eat every day.

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

This is all just so a handful of billionaires don't have to pay taxes. There's not that many of them, and they wouldn't even notice if they paid 90% of their money in taxes.

[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 42 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Hey the thing people along time ago said was going to happen is happening.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

We already tried this shit in Florida, with the exact same results, had to dial it way back.

Florida: "Let's try again on a national level!"

[–] kubica@fedia.io 7 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Who could have seen it coming, except those people?

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

And others?

[–] IAmLamp@fedia.io 3 points 16 hours ago

Leopards who have an appetite for faces.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago

Not ICE raids

Ethnic cleansing

[–] karashta@sopuli.xyz 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

All part of the general plan to destroy the middle class

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

After decades of consistent employment and a bachelor's, I won't ever break nto the middle class.

I did choose a lot of non profit and conservation work, though. Oh well.

[–] karashta@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

My shot was destroyed by the GFC. Never recovered.

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

That's when my student loan debt was at its peak. Great way to start out.

[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago

Make America Famished Again

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Who’s hungry for the rich?

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago

The raids are bullshit, but at least companies are finally facing some sort of consequence for their institutional, systemic exploitation of migrants.