Posted on 12/26/2024 3:43:12 PM PST by DFG
California farmers could soon enjoy bumper crops thanks to President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to lift water restrictions. But who will pick them if he follows through on his deportation threats?
The country’s largest agricultural constituency backed Trump in November, bucking California’s deep-blue electorate over his campaign promises to “open the faucet” and deliver more water to the state’s parched, conservative-leaning Central Valley. But now it’s reckoning with an uncomfortable contradiction: Trump also campaigned on mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, who make up at least half of the state’s agricultural workforce.
That’s left California’s agricultural barons, who employ the most farm workers of any state in the nation and grow half the produce consumed in the United States, nervously parsing Trump’s rhetoric.
“To say it would have an impact on California would be an understatement,” said Chris Reardon, vice president of policy advocacy at the industry group California Farm Bureau Federation. Reardon, who declined to say who he voted for, has been fielding calls from members asking him what exactly will happen to workers.
“We just don’t know yet,” he’s told them.
Trump has appointed anti-immigration hawks to top positions, like Thomas Homan as border czar, and pledged to begin deportations on “Day One” of his administration, through executive orders crafted to evade legal challenges and by undoing Biden-era restrictions on deportations. Dave Puglia, the president and CEO of the Western Growers Association, called the prospect of sweeps on farms “very troubling.”
Deporting hundreds of thousands of undocumented farmworkers from California would be logistically difficult and time-consuming, to say nothing of the legal challenges California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta and other Democratic officials are already preparing. Homan has said the administration would prioritize deporting undocumented people who’ve committed serious crimes.
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What Bull$hit... Migrant farmers have been part of the California central valley my and your entire lives... this is a non issue. And it actually works for both Mexico and the US. Further, for their kids, they get a chance by joining the military to get full citizenship and they typically do extremely well... because they work and get $hit done. Bonus... most of them never need transgender treatment... because their parents are sane human beings.
Let's worry about the first million criminals now in our jails and loose on our streets.
Then we'll go after the second million.
In the meantime, we need to stop the illegal entries....whatever it takes...
They’re no longer getting water anyway, thanks to Democrats, so it’s no big deal if they lose their ‘hands’ (a little farm lingo that Rio Linda understands).
The OBVIOUS solution is guest workers if today’s Americans won’t work. People would come here from Third World countries, WITHOUT THEIR FAMILIES, and then work for a set period, maybe 3 years (so Trump can get rid of them before a Democrat has a chance to take over).
Then, of course, tell the onion-striped gnat-catcher (or whatever) that it’s time to find a new home, and if not, tough.
It’s not fruit pickers he’s deporting. There is a complete system set up for temporary migrant workers. It’s the pocket pickers, freeloaders, criminals, drug traffickers, and people who are here illegally that have committed additional crimes beyond the federal crime of illegally crossing our border.
They can hire all the Biden, Harris, and Schumer staffers who will be looking for a job come January.
Right, because the migrants setting fire to New Yorkers are picking crops during the day.
Or they could invest in automation and forgo the need for illegals altogether.
What? You are questioning the thorough and deep knowledge of U.S. agriculture by someone named Camille von Kaenel?
I have been watching these youtube videos about people who appear before judges for arraignment.
The common denominator is:
1. No job
2. Lengthy prior arrest record.
3. Violation of probation.
I believe we need to go back to Prison Farms where a criminal works on a farm each day and stays in jail at night. Thus the cost of jailing the criminal is about equal to the wages earned on the Prison Farm.
Just maybe we would not need illegal immigrants if the deadbeats were forced to work.
Why do you think “family farms” once were the norm?
Because chillens is a built-in labor force.
The old ‘we can’t afford to get rid of slavery’ argument, just like 1860.
And those farms didn’t exist prior to 2021?
Just what did this 15,000,000 illegals do before 2021 to
ensure those farms survived?
You know, I’ve had enough leftist droppings to last a
lifetime.
If they know they’ll be in trouble, they’ve known they’ve been breaking the law.
But if all farmers are required to hire legally, any increased costs will be competitively required nationwide.
Also, some farmers may be helped by tariffs to come.
It’s illegal to hire illegals.
You ain’t MAGA.
Politico via yahoo.....EFF off with your misinformation propaganda 🖕
No, no, no. Illegals and dirt-cheap “guest workers” have enabled farmers to avoid paying living wages to Americans.
Farm workers should be paid like other Americans.
It’s time for agriculture to automate, we don’t pick cotton by hand anymore and most crops can be harvested by machinery
And every state has a program for legal migratory workers.
This is total bs.
The democrats lie about everyone having a high minimum wage, then they import millions of slave laborers.
The democrats make a filthy mess of everything.
The farmers are dying of thirst, which Trump will reverse, but somehow that means they need illegals.
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