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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If these jobs are so “essential then why wasn’t the immigration quota raised so they could enter legally?
Yes, a lying bitch
Democrats are recycling their “well who’s gonna pick the cotton” arguments from the 1880’s.
Didn’t work then, won’t work now.
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.
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.
Small price to pay to preserve national sovereignty.
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.
And maybe things like rents and auto insurance and Healthcare will go down...
Um. did he figure in how much we will be saving by not giving illegals free welfare, healthcare, education, housing? Hmmmmm.
Cue the violins for all the excuses imaginable and then some.
Brussell sprouts? Good!
Beaver Cleaver
Well except for the fact that 70% of our agricultural workers are US citizens. 😆
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.
“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.
This will not stop the LEGAL temporary workers who come during season and then return home after.
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.
A bargain even if so!
No mention here of how drilling will bring down prices. Somebody’s gotta teach them.
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.
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.
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