"'Most Americans don’t want to do this work. Most farmers here are barely breaking even. I fear this has created a tipping point where many will go bust.'“
Why is this happening, this disruption of a significant agricultural process that helps feed the entire nation? Lisa Tate is clear-eyed on that point:
It's happening because of Trump and ICE, because immigrant workers are being terrorized.
#Trump#StephenMiller#Trump #immigrants#ICE#WorkForce #agriculture#FoodChain
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"'Most Americans don’t want to do this work. Most farmers here are barely breaking even. I fear this has created a tipping point where many will go bust.'“
Why is this happening, this disruption of a significant agricultural process that helps feed the entire nation? Lisa Tate is clear-eyed on that point:
It's happening because of Trump and ICE, because immigrant workers are being terrorized.
#Trump#StephenMiller#Trump #immigrants#ICE#WorkForce #agriculture#FoodChain
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"Comparing the detention camps to similar programs in other countries, [Timothy] Snyder warns that incarcerated workers will likely be offered to employers on special terms, a concept Trump appears to have embraced with his suggestion that the administration will figure out how to put workers back in the fields and businesses by putting them under the authority of those hiring them."
#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants#ICE#ConcentrationCamps#SlaveLabor
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"Trump has called the idea 'owner responsibility.'
'[T]hey’re going to be largely responsible for these people,' Trump said. This echoes the system legislators set up in the U.S. South during Reconstruction thanks to the fact the Thirteenth Amendment permits enslavement 'as punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.'”
#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants#ICE#ConcentrationCamps#SlaveLabor
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"A private police force with the power to conduct raids, surveillance, arrests, and disappearances—all without military oversight or congressional restraint.
With $170 billion behind it, ICE can now be deployed not just against immigrants but against anyone who threatens the regime’s ideological, economic, or political grip."
~ Jemar Tisby
"Anyone could be a target for harassment, imprisonment, or disappearing.
ICE is the president’s personal army to carry out his authoritarian will."
