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Miles Archer

(19,920 posts) Tue Jul 15, 2025, 04:47 PM Jul 15

Trump's Ag Sec: We should be able to quickly replace deported farm workers with Americans who want Medicaid

With reports of more and more raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on migrant farm workers around the country, it would be a good time for Americans to learn about the labor that fuels our food supply — especially at a time when our current Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins is making an unrealistic pledge to create a “100% American workforce” in agriculture.

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“Ultimately the answer on this is automation, also some reform within the current governing structure,” Rollins said. “And then also, when you think about it, there are 34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid program. There are plenty of workers in America, but we just have to make sure we are not compromising today, especially in the context of everything we are thinking about right now.”

Rollins said there would be no amnesty for farm workers and that the mass deportations would continue “in a strategic and intentional way, as we move our workforce towards more automation and towards a 100% American workforce.”

Rollins also noted that given the number of able-bodied adults on Medicaid, “we should be able to do that fairly quickly.”

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-ice-raids-farm-workers-american-workforce-rcna218098

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Trump's Ag Sec: We should be able to quickly replace deported farm workers with Americans who want Medicaid (Original Post) Miles Archer Jul 15 OP

"Put down that bottle of fancy French wine, Rolly, and get serious." - Real People BoRaGard Jul 15 #1

Businesses have been using Medicaid as their benefits for years Blue Full Moon Jul 15 #2

64% of Medicaid recipients are already working Ritabert Jul 15 #3

They just wholly and completely believe their own bullshit. tanyev Jul 15 #4

They HAVE to pretend to believe it Ritabert Jul 15 #5

Those farms better have an ambulance on speed dial. nt allegorical oracle Jul 15 #6

BoRaGard

(6,559 posts)

1. "Put down that bottle of fancy French wine, Rolly, and get serious." - Real People

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Tue Jul 15, 2025, 04:51 PM

Jul 15

GOP fake farmer is offer her meds, or something

Blue Full Moon

(2,515 posts)

2. Businesses have been using Medicaid as their benefits for years

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Tue Jul 15, 2025, 04:52 PM

Jul 15

Ritabert

(1,414 posts)

3. 64% of Medicaid recipients are already working

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Jul 15, 2025, 05:04 PM

Jul 15

...but their employers don't offer health insurance or their employers keep the hours below 32 per week so the employees don't qualify. The other 36% are disabled, elderly or children. Hey Brooke how long would you last picking vegetables in the Central Valley? 15 minutes?