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Illegal immigrants not showing up to work for fear of ICE raids: ‘It’s sheer panic’
NY Post ^ | Ariel Zilber

Posted on 06/20/2025 11:42:42 AM PDT by DFG

A crackdown on undocumented workers by the Trump administration has sent shockwaves through the nation’s farms, factories and food supply chains — prompting warnings of worker shortages and higher prices.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller sounded the alarm this week as immigration raids continue to disrupt labor across the state’s farming industry — particularly in dairy operations.

Miller told Bloomberg that the situation has become more dire for livestock producers amid growing absenteeism among workers fearful of being detained.

“Those cows, they have to be milked every eight hours, so if milkhands are gone, what are you going to do? It’s sheer panic,” he said.

Dairy farms across Texas are struggling to maintain routine operations as both undocumented and legal workers stay home to avoid potential encounters with immigration authorities, according to Bloomberg News.

The increased presence of ICE agents, combined with confusion over federal enforcement policy, has led to widespread uncertainty.

Though Trump briefly suggested farms might be spared, the Department of Homeland Security reaffirmed Thursday that agents are to target anyone in the country without legal status.

“President Trump was elected on his promise to enforce federal immigration law and he is doing just that,” Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson, told The Post.

“The Trump Administration is primarily focused on deporting criminal illegal aliens, especially prioritizing those in dangerous Sanctuary Cities.”

Jackson added that “any suggestion that enforcing immigration law will hurt the workforce misses the forest for the trees – over one in ten young adults in America are neither employed, in higher education, nor pursuing some sort of vocational training.”

“There is no shortage of American minds and hands to grow our labor force.”

The Department of Agriculture estimates that more than 40% of US farmworkers are undocumented.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; labor; ohnoanyway
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1 posted on 06/20/2025 11:42:42 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

The plan is working!

Motivation to self deport must be strongly applied.


2 posted on 06/20/2025 11:45:48 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: DFG

Nows the time for legal U.S. residents to get off their butts and get a job. It sounds like Yellowstone is about to blow a gasket and all the buffalo will be gone.


3 posted on 06/20/2025 11:46:02 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: DFG

‘“Those cows, they have to be milked every eight hours, so if milkhands are gone, what are you going to do? It’s sheer panic,” he said.’

Don’t hire illegal aliens!


4 posted on 06/20/2025 11:47:01 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Nows the time for legal U.S. residents to get off their butts and get a job.

Why would they? They have benefits. We are giving it to them.

5 posted on 06/20/2025 11:47:25 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: DFG
so if milkhands are gone, what are you going to do?

Hire Citizens or legal immigrants a better pay.

6 posted on 06/20/2025 11:47:36 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: DFG

These companies should not be slave camps. Hire Americans just do it!!


7 posted on 06/20/2025 11:47:53 AM PDT by toddausauras (47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 )
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To: DFG

PANIC \o/


8 posted on 06/20/2025 11:48:29 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: DFG

They sure aren’t panicking here in Texas. They are everywhere either shopping with their U.S. Sponsored Free Money Cellphone ATMs or dining out somewhere.


9 posted on 06/20/2025 11:48:39 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: DFG

I was in a diner yesterday here in NJ and was watching the staff. Aside from the waitress, everyone working there was Hispanic. They may have been legal, most probably they weren’t. I thought what a great deterrent this is, if everyday you show up for work and wonder if you are going to get hauled away. Seems like a great incentive to self deport.


10 posted on 06/20/2025 11:49:09 AM PDT by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th and 47th President of the United States of America!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Jackson added that “any suggestion that enforcing immigration law will hurt the workforce misses the forest for the trees – over one in ten young adults in America are neither employed, in higher education, nor pursuing some sort of vocational training.”

“There is no shortage of American minds and hands to grow our labor force.”

11 posted on 06/20/2025 11:49:47 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: DFG

On the other hand, their arms may be tired from looting downtown LA, burning cars and buildings and waving their Mexican flags. Advanced Auto Parts are catching hell. I bet the hub caps are the first things to go.


12 posted on 06/20/2025 11:52:50 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: DFG

Excellent!


13 posted on 06/20/2025 11:52:53 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than saving to WORK of !US:-)p)
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To: DFG

We are so sorry you relied on your politicians to create policies that forced you to hire illegal aliens to make a profit.


14 posted on 06/20/2025 11:53:17 AM PDT by Racketeer
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There are going to be job openings.

There are a lot of unemployed Americans. Many of them are living off the government dole, and blame their problems on people who are actually working.

Well, voila, a solution comes to mind. Put the unemployed to work at these newly-open jobs. They will develop a feeling of self-worth, and stop blaming their failures on other people. Once they are productive, they will stop committing crime and stop taking drugs.

(OK, I’m dreaming. I know it will never happen.)


15 posted on 06/20/2025 11:53:25 AM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT! )
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To: TheDon

Nailed it. Why does it take 21 million slave laborers from below the border to clean America’s toilets. Are we really that nasty?


16 posted on 06/20/2025 11:54:42 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: DFG

Employers should face heavy fines. You have to hit the problem from all sides.


17 posted on 06/20/2025 11:55:20 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: MinorityRepublican

Pin head comment from a globalist rino.


18 posted on 06/20/2025 11:56:27 AM PDT by central_va (The I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: TheDon

I have some sympathy for the business owners. Not hiring illegals when all their competition does would price them out of the market. Yet another benefit of enforcing immigration laws is it takes away the impetus to hire illegals from all employers, leveling the playing field for businesses and employees alike.


19 posted on 06/20/2025 11:57:25 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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20 posted on 06/20/2025 11:58:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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