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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUndocumented immigrants account for 48% of all farm workers.
When Trump starts his deportation force I wonder how the Deplorables will feel about paying five dollars for a cucumber.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)The ones the idiots think he was talking about are gone forever
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Many of the Latin Americans have left all ready for safe havens. Down right interesting how this will play out here in Nevada and California. Going to be some yelling coming from our Right Wing Rag owned by Sheldon Adelson.
What is sick,the racist comments many of the retail workers are getting from non Minority Shoppers.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)$5 for a head of iceberg lettuce, not organic. Americans don't want this kind of labor at so little per hour, so little per bushel.
NickB79
(19,274 posts)And hey, bending over cutting asparagus and picking strawberries all day until your back breaks is a job, right?
eleny
(46,166 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)crop picking jobs for less than minimum wage under the table and zero bennies. Not to mention all the backbreaking and dangerous roofing jobs and those big money lawn care jobs, hotel maid jobs etc.
No really the fuckin idiots think Dump is going to cause US auto plants and steel plants and huge coal mines to spring up in the rust belt overnight payin 20 bucks an hour or better that a (white) high school dropout can snag no problems. I'm sure Dump will get right on that! LOL!
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Sadly the US economy has relied on illegal immigrants as a form of low wage semi slave labour for a very long time now. 48% may be the number in the farm sector but there are huge numbers in the service industry, manual labour and much more. Not only are these jobs that Americans by and large refuse to do because of their criminally low pay and backbreaking nature, there simply aren't enough free Americans to fill those positions if you deported all of the illegal immigrants. I suspect that Trump is going to have to walk back a lot of what he's said. Although possibly and equally likely scenario is that he really will try much of what he has said and America will just grind to a halt and spiral down the drain.