There's a report this morning that the situation has become more dire for livestock producers amid growing absenteeism among workers fearful of being detained. “Those cows, they have to be milked every eight hours, so if milkhands are gone, what are you going to do? It’s sheer panic.”
Dairy farms across Texas are struggling to maintain routine operations as both undocumented and legal workers stay home to avoid potential encounters with immigration authorities, according to Bloomberg News. The increased presence of ICE agents, combined with confusion over federal enforcement policy, has led to widespread uncertainty.
Though Trump briefly suggested farms might be spared, the Department of Homeland Security reaffirmed Thursday that agents are to target anyone in the country without legal status. “President Trump was elected on his promise to enforce federal immigration law and he is doing just that,” Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson said.
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with 2 Batteries and Charger for only $ 149.00 for everything.
The same setup at Home Depot is $ 249.00
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Maybe you should hire some high school and college students. Pay them a decent wage and remove the stigma that this is work only for illegals. I wouldn't mind driving a tractor in the fields all day but they won't even consider you if you're not a latino. Of course the farms are owned by latinos too now and they don't hire gringos.
ReplyDeleteThis is going to finally force mechanization on the farming industry. It's about time. It's been at least 20 years since I learned that asparagus is planted from clones seedlings.... they grow at the same speed to the same height which makes mechanized harvesting easy. It may take a couple of years but I'm okay with that. Additionally, it should be good for our NAFTA (sic) partners (sic). Mexico and Canada can use all the undocumented laborers they want.
ReplyDeleteTeens who were happy to have a way of earning some money picking crops can no longer do so because of draconian child labor laws that benefit labor unions and the politicians getting paid off by them.
DeleteI've been arguing for mechanization for decades and it's finally happening little by little. Would have solved the illegal problem 30 years ago.
ReplyDeleteBecome immune to propaganda.
ReplyDeleteFact: H-1B Visa's exist to allow migrant workers into this country to do this work. Nothing has changed.
Fact: If the farmer's "are" using Foreign Nationals who do not have a Visa to work (a/k/a illegal aliens), they are not only committing worker's comp insurance fraud, but payroll tax fraud.
So besides an endless tirade of propaganda, the real problem is lack of enforcement of laws that exist for good reason, and it's not going to happen, because government, Federal, State, Local, and Municipality, is completely corrupt, i.e.,
Worker's Comp Insurance Fraud
Class 6 Felony, up to 2 years in prison, with potentially a $150,000 fine per violation
$150,000 fine x 100 workers = $15,000,000
USC Code re: Payroll Tax Fraud
Any person who willfully attempts in any manner to evade or defeat any tax imposed by this title or the payment thereof shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law, be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $100,000 ($500,000 in the case of a corporation), or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.
All this broccoli .... can stay and rot in the field. Plowed under it can at least provide some benefit to the soil for the next years crop
ReplyDeleteMark in PA
Adults can work those fields and many have however the mentality of doing manual work has been deemed below "me". Its a pay check to put food on the table, roof over your head and whatever else you may need, not want. Get off welfare and get some self respect.
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