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patphil

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11. Without people to work the farms and orchards, we could easily become a nation that can't feed it's people.
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 12:18 PM
Jun 20

It's not just the agricultural workers, it's the meat packing and food processing companies that won't have enough workers to do the job.
And then there's the warehouses, trucking companies, and supermarkets...all throughout the food chain we'll see labor shortages that will drive up prices as food scarcity becomes a real thing in America.
We already have low unemployment; not enough American workers to step in and take over the jobs lost by this reckless, downright stupid anti-immigrant program. Take away a million or two immigrant workers and we'll see food rot on the vine., and thousands of farms go bankrupt.
Remember, this is only the food industry we're talking about here. Many more businesses are going to be devastated by the mass deportation of black and brown people. Whole sectors of the economy will grind to a halt.
It's all just beginning.

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