Mass Deportation - Planning underway— Tom Homan to be “Border Czar”

[Duke Mu]

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America’s food-supply chain relies on a predominantly immigrant workforce for some of its most challenging jobs, such as picking fruit, applying pesticides on crops, operating machinery and slaughtering livestock. About two-thirds of U.S. crop-farm workers are foreign-born, and 42% aren’t legally authorized to work in the country, according to a Labor Department report.

Agriculture trade groups are lobbying the incoming administration for the expanded use of temporary work visas. Some farms and meatpackers are forging deeper ties with recruiters who can ensure a steady labor supply.

… During the first Trump administration, the plants were a target for immigration officials, who led raids of pork facilities in Ohio and a Mississippi plantowned by large poultry producer Koch Foods. In an interview with a New York television station earlier this month, Homan said he expects raids of meatpacking plants and other workplaces to occur again.

Desperate for labor in the Covid-19 pandemic’s wake, meat processors hired migrants from Haiti and other countries who could legally work in the U.S. under the Temporary Protected Status program, according to industry officials. Executives worry that, if Trump ends the program, it could jeopardize the legal status of the people working in their plants. …”

Exactly right. Think about the level of inflation on the American consumer when Tariffs and disruption of the supply chain by idiotic deportations are implemented.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

“…
America’s food-supply chain relies on a predominantly immigrant workforce for some of its most challenging jobs, such as picking fruit, applying pesticides on crops, operating machinery and slaughtering livestock. About two-thirds of U.S. crop-farm workers are foreign-born, and 42% aren’t legally authorized to work in the country, according to a Labor Department report.

Agriculture trade groups are lobbying the incoming administration for the expanded use of temporary work visas. Some farms and meatpackers are forging deeper ties with recruiters who can ensure a steady labor supply.

… During the first Trump administration, the plants were a target for immigration officials, who led raids of pork facilities in Ohio and a Mississippi plantowned by large poultry producer Koch Foods. In an interview with a New York television station earlier this month, Homan said he expects raids of meatpacking plants and other workplaces to occur again.

Desperate for labor in the Covid-19 pandemic’s wake, meat processors hired migrants from Haiti and other countries who could legally work in the U.S. under the Temporary Protected Status program, according to industry officials. Executives worry that, if Trump ends the program, it could jeopardize the legal status of the people working in their plants. …”

No shit. This is what many people have been saying for years and years will happen if you eliminate immigrant labor nationwide. And while it has been brought up here many times, it's worth repeating that the GOP-controlled Alabama state government already tried doing this in 2010 and it was such a disaster that the state's farmers - many of whom were Republicans - ended up begging the state government to back off, as their crops were literally rotting in the fields and they couldn't find enough workers to pick them. I believe another state ended up using prison labor to pick the crops, but that didn't come close to solving the problem either. I've already seen posts from Trumpers about this claiming that there will be more than enough US workers who will be willing to replace immigrants doing this. I think they're deluded and are going to be very sadly mistaken.

 

[mpaer]

No shit. This is what many people have been saying for years and years will happen if you eliminate immigrant labor nationwide. And while it has been brought up here many times, it's worth repeating that the GOP-controlled Alabama state government already tried doing this in 2010 and it was such a disaster that the state's farmers - many of whom were Republicans - ended up begging the state government to back off, as their crops were literally rotting in the fields and they couldn't find enough workers to pick them. I believe another state ended up using prison labor to pick the crops, but that didn't come close to solving the problem either. I've already seen posts from Trumpers about this claiming that there will be more than enough US workers who will be willing to replace immigrants doing this. I think they're deluded and are going to be very sadly mistaken.

I know two guys that worked in meat packing plants
Cause they were prisoners in the NC Correctional system You have gloves-but your arms are stuck in 35 degree water as you cut and slice constantly.I seriously think they build on at least 1 carpel tunnel surgey per employee every couple years