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This was 3 weeks ago--I imagine things have gotten worse---more crops rotting in the fields.
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According to Reuters, up to 70% of farmworkers stayed home, terrified of deportation, leaving fruits and vegetables to spoil unharvested during peak season.
Farmers warn these disruptions threaten the $60 billion California agriculture sector www.reuters.com/business/imm...
According to Reuters, up to 70% of farmworkers stayed home, terrified of deportation, leaving fruits and vegetables to spoil unharvested during peak season.
— ðª·MsGrumpyBunny𪷠(@msgrumpybunny.bsky.social) 2025-07-22T20:05:07.302Z
Farmers warn these disruptions threaten the â¯billion California agriculture sector www.reuters.com/business/imm...
Fear is spreading across the supply chain because the impact isnt limited to California.
The UFW union reports laborers across New York and elsewhere are terrified to show up, even though many are legal or undocumented workers filling vital roles.

www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...
and could drive up grocery prices nationwide.
— ðª·MsGrumpyBunny𪷠(@msgrumpybunny.bsky.social) 2025-07-22T20:05:07.303Z
ð¨ Thereâs a boiling frog analogy here somewhereâ¦
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

brush
(61,033 posts)Last edited Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:40 PM - Edit history (1)
causng prices to go up...not good.
BaronChocula
(3,373 posts)that are subject to the TRUMP TAX.
brush
(61,033 posts)ImNotGod
(1,140 posts)riversedge
(77,932 posts)the kids have said they won't be able to do that once school starts.
Dr. T
(412 posts)that your orange god promised have finally surfaced. Get to it! Those cows ain't gonna' milk themselves.
travelingthrulife
(3,344 posts)Scrivener7
(57,287 posts)to get through this time. They are facing a choice to starve or get disappeared.
riversedge
(77,932 posts)From farm to table, at least one in five jobs in the food industry is carried out by immigrants, the equivalent of 14 million workers across the sector. Illustration: The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/17/how-many-immigrants-food-industry-workers
calimary
(87,905 posts)JT45242
(3,637 posts)Whether they are citizens, green card holders, on a visa...they are the easy targets because you can pick them up at hearings, paperwork renewals, etc.
Easier still just stand outside a church, grocery store, etc. and gran every brown person who does not actively have a passport open on a lanyard around their neck.
Hekate
(99,538 posts)




I despise Homan the Inhuman and every thug associated with ICE.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,105 posts)Not real clear on how thorough any citizenship test is being done.
Hekate
(99,538 posts)This is unsustainable just like dairy cattle who dont get milked will either dry up (if they are lucky) or sicken the nations salads and veggies cant exist without tending.
What the hell did people think was going to happen?
calimary
(87,905 posts)Many only cared about how ballsy trump presented himself to be. And that was somehow supposed to be enough or some magic instant fix-it. That kind of high is extremely short lived.
Btw - my husband is watching a documentary called How the Nazis Lost the War. I just heard the narrators voice saying a God-complex rarely ends well. Pardon the pun but - HOLY COW!!! Could be my next quote of the week*
*as one of the writers of my Indivisible groups weekly Call to Action emails, they always start with a quote, and I wind up being the one who picks the quote. This one sure packs a punch!
Hekate
(99,538 posts)dutch777
(4,720 posts)...at his place and it was for $17k and in the line item breakdown was a line for Tariff fee-- $500. The work required aluminum components. There is a cost for this nonsense and it is starting to show.
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druidity33
(6,829 posts)it's "i've got mine" bullshit. A LOT OF PEOPLE cannot grow their own anything. For a whole host of reasons. It's privilege that you're talking about. Please recognize it. And if you have enough... SHARE.
swong19104
(525 posts)Shovels and baskets and get to work harvesting produce. Theyre getting paid pretty well. So go for it.
BoRaGard
(7,586 posts)republicons are trashing America
mountain grammy
(28,241 posts)Hassler
(4,546 posts)California grapes last year were $1.78lb and now $2.48lb
AZ8theist
(6,902 posts)And didn't bother to explain to the MAGATS that they will soon be paying $12 bucks for a single piece of fruit.
All because he's a self-hating Jew with a bad case of xenophobia. A vile low-life if there ever was one.
Gimpyknee
(680 posts)relayerbob
(7,278 posts)While you still have some.
BurnDoubt
(1,044 posts)Wait 'til they find out they can't eat Bitcoin!!!!!
DumbFucks.
calimary
(87,905 posts)With apologies to horses and other legitimate stable inhabitants everywhere.
liberalla
(10,703 posts)... and thank you Guardian for the reporting.
DJ Synikus Makisimus
(1,108 posts)This is the perfect scenario for them. Not only does WOKE California's economy get trashed. Not only do the racist xenoophobes get satiated. Not only does the union (UFW) take a big hit. But food shortages mean that prices will go up to the consumer, and further profit can be tacked on because "expenses have risen while supply has shrunk," and the few get even wealthier. Also, probably, shortages mean food banks have less to distribute to the poor, so they starve. Win, win, win, win, win for the GOP!
What a shithole country.
twodogsbarking
(15,961 posts)dalton99a
(90,385 posts)twodogsbarking
(15,961 posts)vegetables. Forget I said cotton.
LilElf70
(1,100 posts)What kind of financial idiot would approve of such actions? How could you not see this coming? Not only does he want to destroy democracy, he wants to take the economy too.
How any magat can still support this loser, when he putting all of us in the poor house, is way beyond my comprehension. Wait didn't he promise lower prices? Hmmmm, yet another friggin lie. This is unbelievable. I am hoping I wake some day, and find this all a very bad dream.
wolfie001
(6,210 posts)Those idiots, most of 'em have to buy velcro tennis shoes.
BWdem4life
(2,752 posts)And promised safety from deportation....
I jest.