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Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair: Mass deportation plan will increase grocery costs
The Hill ^ | 11/20/2024 | Ashleigh Fields -

Posted on 11/20/2024 1:34:23 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-Calif.) said mass deportations could cause a spike in costs for American families, including at the grocery store.

President-elect Trump has repeatedly pledged large-scale deportations of illegal immigrants, which could greatly impact the workforce.

“What we also see, I think, under mass deportations, as you’re going to see further cost for American families going up if you start deporting the agricultural workforce and people in the essential jobs that are putting food on the table, grocery costs are only going to go up,” Barragán said during a Wednesday afternoon MSNBC appearance.

She shared concerns about President-elect Trump’s plan, arguing that large groups of essential workers would vanish under mass deportation efforts

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: congressional; costs; deportation; gaslighting; grocercy; hispanic; liars; lol; mass
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I hate these people. Liar
1 posted on 11/20/2024 1:34:23 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If these jobs are so “essential then why wasn’t the immigration quota raised so they could enter legally?

Yes, a lying bitch


2 posted on 11/20/2024 1:35:49 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (What does the Deep State have on Dims and RINOs? Demand release of all tax returns)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrats are recycling their “well who’s gonna pick the cotton” arguments from the 1880’s.

Didn’t work then, won’t work now.


3 posted on 11/20/2024 1:37:19 PM PST by TonyinLA (I have insufficient information to formulate a reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Here comes the corrupt fedgov threats...Why, if you secure your border from millions entering from God knows where, you’ll pay!

More bull s**t.


4 posted on 11/20/2024 1:38:01 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We have had a very effective green card system that allowed sufficient laborers. The RAats wreck it and then try to blame someone else. Vile lying criminals.


5 posted on 11/20/2024 1:38:58 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Small price to pay to preserve national sovereignty.


6 posted on 11/20/2024 1:40:10 PM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why? Migrant workers can get temporary status for harvest season. Then they return to their own country. They did that for years. No one need permanent status for farm work, there are plenty of Americans who will do the other work. Farmers should be responsible for furnishing temporary housing and require workers to return to their own country after harvest.


7 posted on 11/20/2024 1:40:20 PM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And maybe things like rents and auto insurance and Healthcare will go down...


8 posted on 11/20/2024 1:41:36 PM PST by machman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Um. did he figure in how much we will be saving by not giving illegals free welfare, healthcare, education, housing? Hmmmmm.


9 posted on 11/20/2024 1:42:11 PM PST by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Cue the violins for all the excuses imaginable and then some.


10 posted on 11/20/2024 1:42:42 PM PST by MachIV
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Brussell sprouts? Good!
Beaver Cleaver


11 posted on 11/20/2024 1:43:20 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well except for the fact that 70% of our agricultural workers are US citizens. 😆


12 posted on 11/20/2024 1:43:33 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If so, make college students do it if they want to maintain their loans and grants. After all, delaying the writing of the 500,000,000th paper on A Midsummer’s Night Dream will not end society as we know it.


13 posted on 11/20/2024 1:44:48 PM PST by BobL
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To: A_Former_Democrat

“If these jobs are so “essential then why wasn’t the immigration quota raised so they could enter legally?”

EXACTLY - Guest worker program, 3 years at a time, no family, and then you must leave and re-apply.


14 posted on 11/20/2024 1:45:37 PM PST by BobL
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This will not stop the LEGAL temporary workers who come during season and then return home after.


15 posted on 11/20/2024 1:48:02 PM PST by Openurmind
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To: ChicagoConservative27
No...that could be true. At least to a degree. If wetbacks are picking lettuce,grapes,strawberries,oranges,etc their absense could result in smaller harvests...meaning higher prices. Or if the farmers manage to hire citizen replacements they'll clearly be paid more than the wetbacks...meaning higher prices.

But I'm willing to pay more for my orange juice if it means every wetback has been sent home.

True story...Tropicana has a huge plant in Bradenton,Florida...about 30 minutes south of Tampa. I've driven past it many times and I've also seen the huge trucks making deliveries. The trucks must have 20,000 (or more) oranges in each one. Those oranges don't pick themselves.

16 posted on 11/20/2024 1:52:14 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A bargain even if so!


17 posted on 11/20/2024 1:52:42 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Openurmind

No mention here of how drilling will bring down prices. Somebody’s gotta teach them.


18 posted on 11/20/2024 1:53:23 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: TonyinLA

That’s a good argument to use: “200 years ago people like you were warning about the price of cotton going up if we abolished slavery.”

Now, more people need to make such arguments on Threads, Reddit, etc.


19 posted on 11/20/2024 1:59:54 PM PST by lonewacko_dot_com
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Navigate to your favorite search engine and search for “how many republicans are members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus”. Let me know if you get a number.


20 posted on 11/20/2024 2:03:29 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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