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.

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    While certain things can be automated the robotics technology to fully replace humans is probably still decades away.

    Mostly likely they will use prison slave labor, using the same immigrants.

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      The tech to automate most of the stuff already exists, it’s just not being used as long as abusing humans ends up being cheaper.

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        How do you automate the harvesting, ground work and maintenance? For example a peach tree?

        When I was in the valley, 2 inches of rain basically stopped a whole day’s work for entire fields. Ground machines aren’t even workable on that day.