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Trump: ‘We’re Not Going to Have Farms’ Without H-2A Foreign Visa Workers
Breitbart ^ | April 1, 2020 | John Binder

Posted on 04/02/2020 4:31:30 AM PDT by Bratch

President Trump says he has committed to American farmers to continue admitting large numbers of H-2A foreign visa workers to take agricultural jobs, even as jobless claims are set to climb above 3.3 million in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis.

During a press briefing on Wednesday, Trump suggested United States farms would not survive without a continuous flow of H-2A foreign visa workers who are brought to the country by farmers. There is no limit to how many H-2A foreign visa workers can be admitted to the U.S.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: artofthedeal; bracero; cheaplabor; farmers; hardtruth; immigration; potus; trusttheplan; visas
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Migrants-Doing the slave labor Americans won't.

1 posted on 04/02/2020 4:31:30 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch

Drivel......... your comment is balderdascious drivel


2 posted on 04/02/2020 4:34:00 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Bratch

Hardly the time or the place for this.


3 posted on 04/02/2020 4:36:57 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Bratch

If we make welfare less lucrative than work, we’ll have enough laborers.


4 posted on 04/02/2020 4:38:56 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Bratch
Trump please explain why YOUR DHS Head is pushing thru
a Indian H1Visas for 80,000 people ?
We having millions of American unemployed and he is
peddling Foreign labor invasion .

Trump picked the firmer head of Indian Outsourcing firm for DHS ?

Did Trump benefit from these visas at your hotels and resorts too ?....

So much for America First .

As we face record unemployment Trump and His DHS guy
push foreigners in American jobs .

Good luck getting reelected .

5 posted on 04/02/2020 4:40:28 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globa)
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To: Bratch

Farmers say they “can’t” get workers. But what if you “farmed out” that recruiting job to a go-getter? I think American workers can be found - it just takes effort.


6 posted on 04/02/2020 4:41:08 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: bert

Bert the ostrich strikes again


7 posted on 04/02/2020 4:43:12 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: \/\/ayne

I don’t think so. Migrants have been coming from Mexico to Michigan since at least as the late-1950’s to work the farms, especially the cherry orchards. But my understanding then was they were coming in the spring and going back and the end of harvest.


8 posted on 04/02/2020 4:45:10 AM PDT by be-baw
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To: eartick

As is always common among many conservatives, you are deserting the cause for lack of perceived purity by people who disagree with you

Shame on you


9 posted on 04/02/2020 4:46:25 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Bratch
Also continue outsourcing production to china, IT to india.

Continue slave labor in IT sector via h1bs, continue importing indians and give them green cards.Make more billions for tech companies and MAGA.

Keep building democrat majorities. Great going trump.

10 posted on 04/02/2020 4:47:21 AM PDT by va22030
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To: Bratch

So while we’re all sitting idle sheltering in place for fear of the GREAT VIRUS, Central Americans and Caribbean Islanders will drive or fly into the country and harvest our crops for us for a pittance.


11 posted on 04/02/2020 4:48:59 AM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: mewzilla
If we make welfare less lucrative than work, we’ll have enough laborers.

Worth repeating...

If we make welfare less lucrative than work, we’ll have enough laborers.

12 posted on 04/02/2020 4:49:39 AM PDT by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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To: mewzilla

Current recipients of which, fortunately, haven’t seen a “pay cut” yet due to the current crackdown.


13 posted on 04/02/2020 4:50:29 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Bratch

Farms could/would have improved their work and pay conditions by now had we not been feeding them cheap imported labor for decades. What’s worse, of course, is we’ve spread it to the rest of farming (and most labor) in the US.

They all need to go home. We need to adjust the economy to our workers and supply and demand.

But I give Trump a one-time pass on this right now, since he is fighting the push to crash us to an economic apocalypse—and we don’t need our domestic food supply disrupted right now.


14 posted on 04/02/2020 4:53:58 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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I’d be happy to oay more for a salad then f I knew that the natives were harvesting it. Farmers have a wage problem disguised as a labor shortage.


15 posted on 04/02/2020 4:54:31 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: Bratch

Unemployed American College Educaed Socialists and Communists should be sent to the collective’s as service on the front lines of the revolution is mandatory....


16 posted on 04/02/2020 4:55:46 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: be-baw

That’s also when cars are found on blocks after their tires are stolen. Every year in my farm community it was the same thing in Ohio.


17 posted on 04/02/2020 4:56:51 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: ncalburt
So much for America First .

Yup. It’s money and profits first; everything else is secondary, like crime, jobs, social cohesion, etc, etc.

18 posted on 04/02/2020 4:59:24 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: Bratch

You’re correct


19 posted on 04/02/2020 4:59:42 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: \/\/ayne
Have you actually seen the work these people do?

I lived in a small farming town where the population more than doubled at watermelon harvest time. It's brutal.

In a conversation with 2 farmers:
Farmer 1:"Do you think these hands smoke marijuana?"
Farmer 2: "Gawd,I hope so."

20 posted on 04/02/2020 5:01:40 AM PDT by SanchoP (Secede!)
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