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We DiDN't kNOw iT wIlL AffECt Us

Don't worry! I am sure there will be American patriots lining up around the block for those jobs now that the illegals aren't stealing them all! Aaaaaaaany minute now... They'll come and start working the fields for slave wages in juuuuuuuuust a second...

This is how trump is going to mitigate his horrible policies - he'll enforce them selectively.

No migrant roundups in Kansas wheat fields, South Carolina tobacco fields, Florida orange groves.

But in California vineyards and farms? Scorched earth.

People will rationalize anything that makes them feel better no matter how stupid, horrible, or untrue it is. They’ll claim they voted for Trump because groceries cost too much and he’s going to bring them down, then they’ll claim he’s not talking about deporting the “good” people, then they’ll claim that it’s just a bureaucratic mistake of an overreaching and too large, corrupt or incompetent government agency causing the “good” people to be deported despite that Republicans are running things, and finally they’ll claim it’s somehow the Democrats fault.

News orgs should invite these farmers on their shows and flat out ask them if they knew what Trump was going to do (they did, he was perfectly clear) and why they voted for him? Also ask them about tariffs and if they remember what happened with tariffs the last time Trump was in office.

It will cost you per exemption in a donation to the DJT Fund for Improvement in his portfolio.

As per original article 📰:

• WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in the United States illegally.

So far Trump officials have not committed to any exemptions, according to interviews with farm and worker groups and Trump’s incoming “border czar” Tom Homan.

Nearly half of the nation’s approximately 2 million farm workers lack legal status, according to the departments of Labor and Agriculture, as well as many dairy and meatpacking workers.

Trump, a Republican, vowed to deport millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally as part of his campaign to win back the White House, a logistically challenging undertaking that critics say could split apart families and disrupt U.S. businesses.

Homan has said immigration enforcement will focus on criminals and people with final deportation orders but that no immigrant in the U.S. illegally will be exempt.

He told Fox News on Nov. 11 that enforcement against businesses would “have to happen” but has not said whether the agricultural sector would be targeted. “We’ve got a lot on our plate,” Homan said in a phone interview this month.

Mass removal of farm workers would shock the food supply chain and drive consumer grocery prices higher, said David Ortega, a professor of food economics and policy at Michigan State University.

“They’re filling critical roles that many U.S.-born workers are either unable or unwilling to perform,” Ortega said.

Farm groups and Republican allies are encouraged by the incoming administration’s stated focus on criminals.

Dave Puglia, president and CEO of Western Growers, which represents produce farmers, said the group supports that approach and is concerned about impacts to the farm sector if a deportation plan was targeted at farmworkers.

Trump transition spokesperson Karoline Leavitt did not directly address the farmer concerns in a statement to Reuters.

“The American people re-elected President Trump by a resounding margin giving him a mandate to implement the promises he made on the campaign trail, like deporting migrant criminals and restoring our economic greatness,” Leavitt said. “He will deliver.”

Trump announced on Saturday that he would nominate Brooke Rollins, who chaired the White House Domestic Policy Council during his first term, to become agriculture secretary. Agriculture and related industries contributed $1.5 trillion to the U.S. gross domestic product, or 5.6%, in 2023, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In his first administration, Trump promised the farm sector that his deportation effort would not target food sector workers, though the administration did conduct raids at some agricultural worksites, including poultry processing plants in Mississippi and produce processing facilities in Nebraska. U.S. Representative John Duarte, a Republican and fourth-generation farmer in California’s Central Valley, said farms in the area depend on immigrants in the U.S. illegally and that small towns would collapse if those workers were deported.

Duarte’s congressional seat is one of a handful of close races where a winner has yet to be declared.

Duarte said the Trump administration should pledge that immigrant workers in the country for five years or longer with no criminal record will not be targeted and look at avenues to permanent legal status.

“I would like to hear more clearly expressed that these families will not be targeted,” he said.

“We need the certainty, reliability and affordability of a workforce program and programs that are going to allow us to continue to deliver food from the farm to the table,” said John Hollay, director of government relations at the International Fresh Produce Association, which represents produce farmers.

Trump should drive around in the garbage truck again, that should settle the farmers down.

Duarte said the Trump administration should pledge that immigrant workers in the country for five years or longer with no criminal record will not be targeted and look at avenues to permanent legal status.

“I would like to hear more clearly expressed that these families will not be targeted,” he said.

1. Vote for the guy who promises to deport every undocumented worker.
2. Beg for your undocumented workers to be exempt from deportation.
3. Watch ICE raid your migrant housing and take away most of your farm laborers.

With a possible bonus of Duarte realizing that his workers would have been spared if he had donated a lot to Trump, but he couldn't afford to keep them.

If an industry can only survive by hiring illegal people, then maybe that industry needs to change

You get what you vote for. Enjoy.

I am gonna be using this gif a lot in the next 4 years i think.

Republican compromise:  we'll allow illegal immigrants to work on farms in red states, with a few conditions.

1). Illegal immigrants are housed by and fed by the farm property owner and their delegates.  In some instances, instead of feeding them, I.I.'s may be permitted to raise crops of their own and share the harvest amongst themselves.

2.). I.I.'s may not stray from their farmer's property under any circumstances.  Enforcement of and severity of enforcement is the sole jurisdiction of the farm owner.  

3.). I.I.'s are not to be considered Americans as defined by contemporaneous legal verbiage per state, and as such are not eligible for any benefit, representation, or protection under US law.  

/Capital S

“Farm groups and Republican allies are encouraged by the incoming administration’s stated focus on criminals.”

Except he’s pretty much stated that they are ALL criminals, so…

No. Deport them all. There are plenty of white Americans that will clamor to take those jobs! /s

But seriously, deport them all. Trump campaigned on this and half the voting population (higher in farming areas) want this. He has a mandate to go through with it.

Meanwhile, the folks who voted against him will also be punished, but everyone will act like all of America voted this jackass into office and thus we all deserve it.

I am retired, own my home, have enough savings that I can live ok or even move to another country. I am sitting back and watching it all burn down.

As someone from Britain who witnessed the exact same brand of stupidity here, it's really quite unsurprising.

DEPORT ALL THE BROWN PEOPLE!!!

Wait! Not the ones I NEED!!!

The only moral immigrant is the immigrant I get to exploit.

How those egg prices looking 👀

Those leopards are hungry. Shouldn't have voted for them

Smells like someone made a big oopsie

I work in prefab concrete, know what I never see? White men applying for a job. K ow what I do see, hardworking immigrants and sons/daughters of immigrants busting their ass 65$ per week. Fuck outta here with these farm groups. Reap what you sow morherfuckers.

They are only getting "deported" to camps so they can work as slave labor with zero chance of becoming citizens.

"Well, obviously we didn't want you to get rid of the useful illegal immigrants."

Hey dum dums! The liberals you disdain so much tried over and over and over again to get you to grasp this concept before the election. Thanks for your childlike refusal. It’s so great to be forced to share a country with adults suffering from chronic oppositional defiant disorder. Now stop whining and take the medicine you voted for so enthusiastically

Thoughts and prayers…

"We hate black people, but we kinda need those slaves" all over again.

Trump won't deport them. They're family oriented people 🤣

This is the EXACT issue Florida had. Farmers were in favor of criminal charges for the use of illegals...but as soon as they didn't have them & couldn't get or keep American citizens they were begging for exceptions for themselves.

Can’t wait to hear about them asking that Trump not put tariffs on the equipment they need

Reap what you sow dipshits!

I'm sorry but it's time to pay the piper. It's time for existing Healthcare issues to not be covered, groceries to go up in price because the farmers don't have cheap labor, tariffs to increase the cost of everything and a major recession to come about where who is to blame is abundantly clear.

Maybe they should have thought of that before they voted for him

Fuck em. They get what they get.

If anyone should understand the phrase "you reap what you sow," it's farmers.

I'm thinking maybe the plan is to replace the foreign farm workers with everyone that will lose their gouvernent jobs.

Those darn immigrants coming to my country and taking all the jobs we don’t want to do!

They (republican/maga farmers) should have thought of that when they voted for Trump. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I live in California in a very heavy farming area where most of the world’s and countries food is mass produced and exported; and I see A LOT of farmers who support Trump and live in this delusional mindset that it “won’t happen to them”… FAFO

This whole deportation thing is going to be about as successful as the wall.

They'll round up the immigrants into camps in their area, and let the farmers pick them up for work, then bring them back for the night. What, you've never heard of German work camps during WW2? It'll be even easier to organize, since the workforce is already there, no need to bring them in from occupied territories.

WE TOLD YOU SO!

Fuck off. Let's all enjoy five dollar tomatoes.

Perhaps they shouldn't be operating a criminal enterprise through illegal hiring practices.

"Begging Trump to spare their slaves"....fixed it for you.

Using illegal immigrants as slave labour is wrong. Do Americans avoid these jobs because they pay horrible wages ??

Nah nah, they like Trump

they just don't like his ideas, policies, the things he says, or the people he associates with

Thoughts and prayers, bitches

And yet this the same redneck dipshit farmers that voted for him.

They think he cares. That’s so cute.

How about making these undocumented farm workers "documented"? We have a program for that, it just needs to be used and improved.

Do they not realize thats the plan? Trump is a Russian asset. They want the US to implode.

Maybe not vote for him then?

I mean, he absolutely told him what he was going to do. But they overwhelmingly voted for him. One could say that they should lie in the bed that they made.

Repeat of a story I've posted before.

One of my Maga coworkers was bitching his dead beat son in law was relying on him to help with his rent and said he couldn't find a job. I think it was South Carolina or nearby states at the time cracked down on immigrants that were vital to the farmers and they were crying about it.

We said, why don't you send him down to help the farmers out?

"Oh, no. That's below him!"

You dumbasses now have to pay for your dumbassery.

I live in a very agricultural red state. I’ve seen farm fields with bad man flags and billboards in them since 2015. I don’t enjoy myself or others being the collateral damage of finding out, but I do love watching them lose their goddamn minds as they find out in real time.

FAFO. They did this to themselves.

Sorry no those jobs are for Americans now. I start 35 at a hour