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California Crops Rot as Immigration Crackdown Creates Farmworker Shortage
Fortune ^

Posted on 08/10/2017 4:25:13 PM PDT by SMGFan

Vegetable prices may be going up soon, as a shortage of migrant workers is resulting in lost crops in California. Farmers say they're having trouble hiring enough people to work during harvest season, causing some crops to rot before they can be picked. Already, the situation has triggered losses of more than $13 million in two California counties alone, according to NBC News.

The ongoing battle about U.S. immigration policies is blamed for the shortage. The vast majority of California's farm workers are foreign born, with many coming from Mexico. However, the PEW Research Center reports more Mexicans are leaving the U.S. than coming here.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: fakemedia; fakenews; fakeresearch; propaganda; wrongconclusions
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To: SMGFan
Lettuce Harvesting Machines
61 posted on 08/10/2017 5:40:40 PM PDT by Oatka
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To: bigmak007
He sends buses down to the border every year, to pick up workers legally. He grows for major food chains. He pays over minimum, and treats the workers well.

I have absolutely no problem with that arrangement, and that's the way it should be. Those people are not "wetbacks".

God bless them for their work ethic, and for doing it the right way.

62 posted on 08/10/2017 5:46:11 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs and RINOs...same thing)
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To: Fiji Hill

“Braceros were promptly replaced by illegal aliens, but I don’t recall Jesse Jackson, Vernon Jordan or other so-called black “leaders” protesting that they were continuing to take jobs away from blacks.”

It’s because at the time all of this was going on, these two still didn’t have any pubic hair!


63 posted on 08/10/2017 5:50:45 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: odawg

They can into the country to pick produce, then moved up the food
chain doing jobs Americans can and will do, such as construction jobs.


64 posted on 08/10/2017 5:51:10 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: SMGFan

Ah do declare! We just caint grow our crops without slavery!!


65 posted on 08/10/2017 5:52:50 PM PDT by Yaelle (We have a Crisis of Information in this country. Our enemies hold the megaphone.)
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To: SMGFan

Too bad welfare and food stamps caused the rotting crops.


66 posted on 08/10/2017 5:54:15 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: SoConPubbie
Pay enough money so that American Citizens will want to work for you.

Cut welfare and food stamps for able bodied citizens so the slugs go back to work. Or they can starve.

67 posted on 08/10/2017 5:58:12 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: SMGFan

All the slave labor is drying up eh?


68 posted on 08/10/2017 6:00:10 PM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: Thank You Rush

“I seem to remember it was one of the BROWNS in CA who botched that up - either father or son...”

It was Jerry The Fairy’s dad, “Pat” Brown. He was even goofier than Jerry has turned out to be. It’s small wonder California is where it is today. Collectively, “The Brown’s” ( That’s the if it’s brown, flush it Browns) have been governors for TWENTY-FOUR EFFING YEARS! Worse yet, when you add in Gray Davis tenure (he was Jerry The Fairy’s Chief of Staff) who was governor for four years before being the first governor in history to face a recall. So in sum, we’ve had 28 years of The Browns.”
Then to cap it off, we elected that feckless turd Arnold The Awful Schickelgruber, who’s only claim to fame for eight years was knocking up his Mexican maid.


69 posted on 08/10/2017 6:01:53 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: upchuck

“... PEW Research Center reports more Mexicans are leaving the U.S. than coming here.

Hallelujah! At last.”

I don’t know. I can think of a sub group of “Americans” I’d rather see go than the Mexicans,


70 posted on 08/10/2017 6:20:46 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: central_va

What you say is no doubt true.

I was being sarcastic and playing off of a ten year-old meme from when the illegals were staging their demonstrations. A common liberal meme of the day was ‘do you want to spend $10 for a head of lettuce?’.

The rejoinder was we already do, etc.


71 posted on 08/10/2017 6:21:13 PM PDT by x1stcav (White. Male. Unreconstructed. Never owned a slave.)
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To: montag813
Back when Eisenhower unleashed "Operation Wetback" in 1955 or so, it was widely predicted that tomatoes would rot in the fields. Within 18 months, we had mechanized tomato picking equipment everywhere.

The early adopters made a killing.

72 posted on 08/10/2017 6:29:13 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: SMGFan

Long past time to end slave labor in the U.S. Pay a wage commensurate with the work and you crops will be picked.


73 posted on 08/10/2017 6:34:37 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: SMGFan

God forbid they should offer higher pay to get more workers.


74 posted on 08/10/2017 6:38:46 PM PDT by Thud
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To: SMGFan

Driscoll invented an automated strawberry picker. Why can’t they?


75 posted on 08/10/2017 6:53:34 PM PDT by brianr10
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To: brianr10

If they already lost $14,000,000.00, had they paid $30/hour for pickers they would have gotten 500,000 hours of picker labor. That picks a lot of stuff to sell...in those 2 counties. I call BS on the growers’ griping.


76 posted on 08/10/2017 7:35:06 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Round up university students and require that they work in the fields for 2 summer semesters. Room and board and any money earned would go to reimburse the treasury for grants and the costs of U.S. higher educations. For most Students it would be like taking a semester abroad. Give them a couple of credits for work/life experience and a semester abroad for their Spanish language program! Solidarity with the agricultural workers and the collective!


77 posted on 08/10/2017 7:40:25 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

The farmer pays for their food on the road trip, and maybe breakfast during the harvest, but brings them into town in the evening. Our small convenience store is overwhelmed with sales of quart beer and fried food selections. Great for the store owner, but no fun to be in line. But I confess, being 6’3” behind 5’3” people makes me feel like Jeb Bush.
Plus, that’s all they spend on themselves, the rest is sent back to their families...


78 posted on 08/10/2017 7:42:56 PM PDT by bigmak007 (They who can't control their own passions, want to passionately control others.)
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To: SMGFan

This is a crap report based on 2015 data. That amount, btw, is less than 1% (ONE-PERCENT)of the total crop value in CA.


79 posted on 08/10/2017 7:54:30 PM PDT by ataDude (.)
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To: SMGFan

So the farmers are admitting they use illegal and cheap labor to make a buck while the rest of us pay for those criminal invaders social cost?

I hope their crops don’t get harvested. Maybe next year they will plant crops they can harest with legal labor or machinery.

UnAmerican Pukes!


80 posted on 08/10/2017 7:55:25 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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