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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers

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'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers

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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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In interviews with the Washington Post, multiple farmers expressed their dismay with the loss of farm workers under Donald Trump's harsh immigration policies and his administration's waffling on subsidies.In a deep dive focusing on one farmer who voted for Trump, 36-year-old J.J. Ficke of Kirk, Colo...
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    The point is racism and cruelty.

    The Republicans don’t give a fuck about workers wages.

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      they prefer slaves.

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      The fuck are you talking about? It’s the Democrats saying we need a slave class, that we can’t deport them, not the Republicans.

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        Psst: the deranged focus on deporting every single undocumented immigrant actually makes it easier for employers to exploit undocumented immigrants. You can’t threaten to deport someone for organizing labor if the government is only deporting criminals.

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          Removed by mod

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            The vast majority of the immigrants being deported are being forced to leave against their will. Why do you think they should have no say in the matter? Forced deportation is violent and cruel, and results in the separation of families.

            If either party actually cared about the people, or budgets, or morality, instead of spending tens of thousands of dollars to remove each person, they would just check them in, have them sign a piece of paper, and grant them legal status.

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        To what Democratic policy or policies are you referring?

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          The one against deporting illegal immigrants?

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            Okay, but like specifically what law, proposed or enacted?

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        25 downvotes, no upvotes?

        Downvotes don’t change the past and the fact that Democrats enabled slavery.

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          • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
          • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_United_States_presidential_election
          • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_realignment
          • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat

          Leaving this here instead of removing this dumbfuck comment for disinformation based on an intellectually dishonest half-truth.

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            Sorry but I didn’t mean it in that historic perspective and neither did OP.

            It doesn’t matter what people say, it’s important what happens. By keeping illegal immigrants in their exploitive conditions, and by e.g. not prosecuting those who employ illegal immigrants, the Democrats created the current situation, together with the Republicans. The Democrats are complicit.

            Nevertheless, those are interesting links.

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          I’m used to it. Lemmy has problems with the reality of the democrat party.

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