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In reply to the discussion: US farm groups want Trump to spare their workers from deportation [View all]Farmer-Rick
(11,538 posts)As a farmer who would never vote for Pedo Trump, I can honestly say these people in charge, those ignorant Trump MAGAts, don't know what the hell they are talking about.
There are perfectly legal migrant farm workers and food processing immigrants. H2-A visas I think.
You can hire foreign immigrants by the hundreds and hundreds to work your fields or process your animals for mere pennies.(they call it "process food" but it's corporate owned slaughter houses like Tyson, Koch industries and Smithfield, which have taken over all the slaughter houses so small farmers can Not compete with them.)
They are all migrants who are here in a special program that houses them at the farm or slaughter houses....some return across the border the same day, if they are close to Mexico. They are bussed in by Tyson or the farmers then bussed back across the border after work.
But some stay the full season to pick your fruits and vegetables. Then they go onto other farms to pick. It's a planned rotational seasons to pick throughout the US. And it's a perfectly legal system. Not ethical but legal.
But you can hire a farm labor contractor who gets you hundreds of desperate people to pick your vegetables. And the picker's pay is usually way below minimum wage. But you have to hire a minimum number. Not sure what that number is but a friend tried it and said they were required to hire 300 seasonal migrants.
But I think the MAGAts are going to round those people up too, because they are too stupid to know what a legal visa is. If they force them into concentration camps, then the US government can pick up the tab to send them out to slaughter houses, farms and warehouses for free slave labor. It frees up Tyson, Koch industries and Amazon from having to transport, house or feed them. It's what China does with prisoners and other farm workers.