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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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To: BobL
No one talks about it, but the vast majority of the jobs these migrants do could be replaced by machinery (some of which doesnt yet exist, but could) You would be amazed at how much of that equipment is already available.
Check out modern harvesting equipment on YouTube.
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posted on
04/02/2020 7:01:01 AM PDT
by
itsahoot
(Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
To: mewzilla
If you pay to do nothing, and more if you have a child, then you get more of it.
To: Lurkinanloomin
Yes, that’s the rumor. That he’ll have Lindsey Graham draw up the paperwork. He may have Hillary work on it with him.
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posted on
04/02/2020 7:25:47 AM PDT
by
Bon of Babble
(In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby)
To: itsahoot
I have read that a lot of this mechanical harvesting equipment was developed in Australia because they simply didn’t have a 3rd world country to exploit for farm labor.
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posted on
04/02/2020 7:26:48 AM PDT
by
Bon of Babble
(In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby)
To: Bon of Babble
Flimsey Grahamnesty has never stopped working for amnesty.
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posted on
04/02/2020 7:51:01 AM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Bratch
Sometimes nations have to learn lessons the hard way.
What will we have learned?
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posted on
04/02/2020 9:55:28 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
To: IndispensableDestiny
Mechanization is reducing the need for pickers of many crops.
Mechanization has produced rubberized tomatoes.
To: central_va
FYI: $50 watermelons without foreign labor, says globalist shill.
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posted on
04/02/2020 1:02:02 PM PDT
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
To: NobleFree
FYI: $50 watermelons without foreign labor, says globalist shill. LOL. The cost of labor per head of lettuce is $.25. Doubling labor raises the per head cost to .50/head. You globalist pigs scare tactic don't work. We are on to you.
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posted on
04/02/2020 1:17:31 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn....)
To: Bratch
Trump is so damn wrong about this one. I call balls and strikes like I see them.
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posted on
04/02/2020 1:19:46 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn....)
To: Bratch
I've already heard people say that we'll have food shortages this winter because of all the coronavirus disruptions, etc.
Buy more food?
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posted on
04/02/2020 1:19:55 PM PDT
by
blam
To: be-baw
Migrants have been coming from Mexico to Michigan since at least as the late-1950s Doesn't make it right.
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posted on
04/02/2020 1:20:52 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn....)
To: SanchoP
Hey Sancho us white boys are hard workers too it’s just we have enough self respect to not work for a pittance.
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posted on
04/02/2020 1:23:38 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn....)
To: bkopto
Id 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.
____________________
bears repeating.
stop the welfare train.
and pay the prevailing rates.
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posted on
04/02/2020 1:23:42 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
To: bert
The only pity here is that globalistas are still sucking air.
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posted on
04/02/2020 1:24:38 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn....)
To: itsahoot
Boy O Boy. That’s some equipment.
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posted on
04/02/2020 1:26:41 PM PDT
by
blam
To: billyboy15
If Trump would make a big deal out of killing H-1B and really touts it as an accomplishment for the Americans worker then he would never have to worry about this election. Goes for all Republicans.
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posted on
04/02/2020 1:27:33 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn....)
To: SanchoP
That's a no brainer. Watermelons would be $50 a piece,maybe even higher. You are an economic retard Sancho. The PER melon price is not the same as the PER hour cost of labor. Stick to stealing hubcaps and impregnating dogs you loser.
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posted on
04/02/2020 1:31:01 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn....)
To: blam
Boy O Boy. Thats some equipment. Amazing stuff. I have nothing but time on my hands and can spend the time to watch some of the stuff. There is a video of the construction of the worlds tallest bridge that boggles my mind. Railroads installed by a half dozen men, or mining machines that replace all the hand dug coal operations. Then for a change of pace I watch Mr. Chickadee who does amazing carpentry with absolutely no power tools.
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posted on
04/02/2020 1:56:58 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
To: itsahoot
Strawberries, tomatoes.
Don’t compare apples with oranges.
Yes, strawberry harvesters on on the way, but they aren’t here in 2020.
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posted on
04/02/2020 2:12:27 PM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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