75% of immigrant farm workers didn’t show up yesterday in Bakersfield because of fears of ICE raids under the new residency.
America’s rural and agricultural regions will be the hardest hit from trump’s immigration policies. Food prices are going to skyrocket.
“People aren’t going to work and kids aren’t going to school,” mirroring mass school absences following past workplace raids in states like Mississippi, New Mexico, and Tennessee.
ICE agents in unmarked Chevy Suburbans rounded up and detained immigrants in the area, profiling individuals they believed to be field workers, as the harassment of naturalized U.S. citizen Ernesto Campos amid the Bakersfield raids can attest to.
The end result: acres of unpicked oranges and vegetables roasting in the California sun at the height of the season.
No vegetables? yuck! Let them eat cake. – trump, probably.
Our dystopian present/future:
75% of immigrant farm workers didn’t show up yesterday in Bakersfield because of fears of ICE raids under the new residency.
America’s rural and agricultural regions will be the hardest hit from trump’s immigration policies. Food prices are going to skyrocket.
“People aren’t going to work and kids aren’t going to school,” mirroring mass school absences following past workplace raids in states like Mississippi, New Mexico, and Tennessee.
ICE agents in unmarked Chevy Suburbans rounded up and detained immigrants in the area, profiling individuals they believed to be field workers, as the harassment of naturalized U.S. citizen Ernesto Campos amid the Bakersfield raids can attest to.
The end result: acres of unpicked oranges and vegetables roasting in the California sun at the height of the season.
No vegetables? yuck! Let them eat cake. – trump, probably.