Will our crops rot in the fields?

[WisconIndependent]

Watching talking head in California watching Ice helicopters flying over fields of strawberries in California. He suspects that they are looking for farm workers who can then be picked up by Ice crews. What happens then to these and other crops when we no longer have the workers needed to pick our crops, they will just rot in the fields. The end results beyond the rotting crops is that we will have to import more of the fruits and vegetables we now grow in this country from Mexico and Canada and prices will spike.

 

[Fearandloathing]

Watching talking head in California watching Ice helicopters flying over fields of strawberries in California. He suspects that they are looking for farm workers who can then be picked up by Ice crews. What happens then to these and other crops when we no longer have the workers needed to pick our crops, they will just rot in the fields. The end results beyond the rotting crops is that we will have to import more of the fruits and vegetables we now grow in this country from Mexico and Canada and prices will spike.

What would happen if the Mexican laborers went on strike?

It is a right in America to form a labor union and use a strike mandate. Facing huge loses on those strawberries the owners would be forced to put pressure on the government to legalize the practice that has been in the open all my life!

Two, three days and the owners will be begging. Especially with strawberries!!!!

 

[Bodecea]

They are already letting tomatos rot in the fields in Florida.

 

[Fearandloathing]

They are already letting tomatos rot in the fields in Florida.

...and I just paid the same amount per pound for a big ripe juicy red tomato as I would for prawns!

 

[Napoleon]

No.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

No.

Who or what is going to pick them?

 

[Questerr]

Who or what is going to pick them?

Slaves. That's what Republicans want.

 

[Napoleon]

Who or what is going to pick them?

You.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

You.

Not unless they pay me $100 an hour

 

[Hamish Howl]

Nothing like hunger to bring people back to reality.

 

[CaughtInThe]

Yes

Tons of Republican business owners are ****ed.

 

[Napoleon]

Not unless they pay me $100 an hour

You’ll be paid the same amount as the laborers you want to keep.

 

[aociswundumho]

What happens then to these and other crops when we no longer have the workers needed to pick our crops, they will just rot in the fields.

Yep.

The end results beyond the rotting crops is that we will have to import more of the fruits and vegetables we now grow in this country from Mexico and Canada and prices will spike.

Much higher prices.

Cheap labor is a gift, and Trump is throwing it away.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

You’ll be paid the same amount as the laborers you want to keep.

Who said I want to keep them?

I asked who is going to pick the crops, I won't do it for less than 100 an hour

 

[Napoleon]

Who said I want to keep them?

I asked who is going to pick the crops, I won't do it for less than 100 an hour

Like them, you won’t have the option. You’ll be paid $1.40 per bushel.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

Like them, you won’t have the option. You’ll be paid $1.40 per bushel.

I certainly have the option as I have a job that pays the equivalent of $77 an hour sitting at a desk in an air-conditioned office

To get me to pick crops in the high heat would take 100 an hour

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

Looks like illegal immigrants will be staying

Trump backed down like a taco again

 

[Greenbeard]

I certainly have the option as I have a job that pays the equivalent of $77 an hour sitting at a desk in an air-conditioned office

To get me to pick crops in the high heat would take 100 an hour

Trump doesn’t want Americans doing well-paid knowledge work, he wants us doing back-breaking labor in fields and factories for shit wages. That’s the MAGA agenda.