Around 75% of immigrant farm workers in Bakersfield, California, ditched their shifts after Trump ramped up his threats by removing protections against ICE raids in “sensitive areas,” including schools and workplaces.

  • Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    I’m fine with prices going sky high so long as we are eliminating exploited labor.

    The reality is though these folks will seek jobs elsewhere and without any social safety nets they are in for some harsh times. I can only hope they have enough friends and family here to make it.

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      Don’t worry, it would t be like this for too long. They’ll solve this “problem” by rounding up everyone brown into concentration camps private prisons. Then, they can hire them back out as slaves to the farms at what they were paying them before. The exploitation is about to get a lot deeper.