The land of the $10 tomato: ‘Mass deportations would disrupt the food chain’: Californians warn of ripple effect of Trump threat

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1. “If we don’t flood the nation with peasants willing to work at slave wages, our food costs might increase a little”

2. Or maybe just give visas to those that want to work in that industry and have them come into the country legally.

3. This crying about “losing field workers is why mass deportation is bad” needs to stop. 

   People fleeing abject poverty are not here for the exploitation perpetuated on them by bad corporations. 

   “Usa people don’t want those jobs” is double speak for “those jobs are only for the undocumented most lowest worker of all because I’m sure not working a job that doesn’t pay enough and has very bad working conditions. Let them do it. They can’t be deported because then I’ll have to do a job with poor conditions”

4. Just the start.

   A little advice to the former middle-class Trumpstes; shit sandwiches are better with horseradish.

5. We have a new Border Cazr coming in to clean up the Democratic Party’s mess.

6. Pffff Trump doesn’t eat vegetables.

   He definitely doesn’t think about where ketchup and marinara comes from.

7. Real MAGA don’t eat vegetables/s

8. Ahh yes. Let’s just continue to allow the steady flow of unchecked illegals to come over.

   Also, what do you think that’s eventually going to do to our social systems? Which does what to our taxes?

   Stop. The border is a fucking mess. You blew it.

9. Gee… Didn’t say crap the entire time he touted this sitting the election… Wonder why…

10. “We should keep slave labor, because getting rid of it would make agricultural products too expensive.”

    Never change, Democrats.

11. Every shit ripple effect of the Dump Administration needs to be “thanks Trump”d into the fucking earths core

12. I grow my own tomatoes in my backyard. I get more than I can eat every year.

13. Of course it will. Americans won’t work those kinds of jobs for the wages illegal immigrants will. A lot of our industries rely on the illegal immigrants. Trump should and I don’t see how he doesn’t know this considering he owns a construction company… He’s probably only going to pay lip service to his constituents or he’s going to tank the economy so fast even the MAGA crowd is going to have to admit his “policies” were dumb as fuck.

14. Why did it even come to this?

15. I think they plan to hold tremendous numbers of these people in private detention centers and prisons, then lease them out for use as free slave labor, or at least even less than is paid to citizen prisoners already. The private equity investors and corporations profit by get paid by the government ( us) and Agricorp, Contractors, Manufacturers, etc. layoff unionized, better paid, and benefited workers en masse.

16. So food corporation have to hire legal workers and their profits might take a hit..?

17. The fruit pickers in Australia are making ~$25/hr. Are they paying $10 per tomato?

18. The most Trump ways of tomato is probably the ketchup on his quarter pounder, if that.

19. No. Hope this helps.

20. Make America Skinny Again, no more food.

21. There are a lot of homeless people that could do this work IF it paid a wage that afforded them a safe and affordable life – food, housing, retirement savings.

    Yes, not all homeless people can do this, but there is a significant homeless population that could be put to work doing this labour and using their income to pay for housing, *poof!!* no more homelessness or at least a lot less.

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