Thursday, January 23, 2025

Trump's Immigration Plans Already Wrecking the Food Industry

Fear of increased ICE raids have already negatively affected the nation's agricultural sector, causing alarm that food prices could skyrocket in the near future as a result of Donald Trump's aggressive immigration policies.

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"If this is the new normal, this is absolute economic devastation."

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-- Raw Story (@rawstory.com) January 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM

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The end result: acres of unpicked oranges roasting in the California sun at the height of the season.

So lots of free slightly rotten oranges ripe for the picking, so to speak? Trump really is bringing down the price of groceries!

#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-01-23 09:38 AM

He promised you he would do this AT THE SAME time he promised to lower food prices.

It's not our fault you were too stupid to understand he was never going to lower prices and that his actual policies were going to have an inflationary effect on them.

You idiots fell for his bull**** yet again.

"I love the poorly educated".

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-01-23 09:46 AM

I a sure that MAGA will adapt readily to a diet of beans and rice.

Eggs, oranges, and hamburger will become become dim memories and then stories told to MAGA children, who will refuse to believe them.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-23 10:17 AM

There is a profound mystery in all of this.

MAGA was told and told and told that this day would come.

Is this the day they wanted? I don't think so. So why did they let it happen?

Why bitch and moan for years about grocery prices and then make sure that those same prices went way the hell up"

Madness. Just madness. These people have to be mentally ill, all of them. They don't live in a world of cause and effect.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-23 10:21 AM

The news says that almost all citrus harvesting has stopped. That mostly hits the Red States. No more oranges from Arizona and no more ruby red grapefruit from Texas.

Or, at least, no more of them that MAGA can afford.

This is frankly bizarre.

MAGA voted for Donald to come raid their kitchens.

I'd advise them to make lemon aide out of lemons, but lemons are also citrus.

I wonder if MAGA knows that?

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-23 10:45 AM

#5 zed needs his slaves!

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-23 10:51 AM

Gee. Who could have seen this coming...

I also thought it was only going to be criminals. What number of broken promises are we up to now?

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-23 11:11 AM

Grocery prices will be going up.

Availability of produce will decrease.

America really was the greatest nation on earth, about 8 years ago.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-23 11:14 AM

Re 6

OneNut needs his lies!

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-23 11:14 AM

I also thought it was only going to be criminals.

Being an immigrant is a crime.

(Depending on your skin color)

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-23 11:15 AM

#5 zed needs his slaves!

#6 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

You don't get it. I will afford oranges.

MAGA is losing it's slaves.

Of course, MAGA could all go a' picking, and get this harvest in.

I mean, these are American jobs that are now going begging for, er. Americans.

#11 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-23 11:16 AM

Americans aren't going to fill these jobs.

These actions will directly make life for all Americans, worse.

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-23 11:17 AM

These actions will directly make life for all Americans, worse.

#12 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK A

There will be a ripple effect.

Bad things are going to happen to MAGA and I genuinely wonder if they will understand why?

#13 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-23 11:25 AM

We don't need slaves.

What we had was a work program for future citizens.

Come to America and work in the fields and your children will benefit from being born here.

Xenophobes are going to get their wish, no more immigrants doing the jobs Americans don't want.

Careful what you wish for.

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-23 11:26 AM

Private prisons are chomping at the bit to fill that labor need. Republicans in congress are heavily invested in private prisons. The math is simple.

#15 | Posted by qcp at 2025-01-23 11:33 AM

#5 zed needs his slaves!

#6 | Posted by oneironaut

Trumpers demand deflation! Where's it going to come from?

#16 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-23 01:45 PM

Egg prices, by the way, are now at an all time high. So much for that promise.

Well, Well, Well: Trump Can't Lower Egg Prices After All

#17 | Posted by qcp at 2025-01-23 01:54 PM

Those poor, poor MS-13 gang members.

#18 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-23 02:40 PM

" SNEAK PEEK: We embedded exclusively w/ ICE Boston today as they targeted egregious criminal aliens. We witnessed 8 arrests, including multiple MS-13, Interpol Red Notices, murder & rape suspects, & a volatile Haitian gang member w/ 18 convictions in recent years who told our cameras he "ain't going back to Haiti" and "f**k Trump, Biden forever!".

We also witnessed a "collateral" arrest, where ICE arrested an illegal alien who wasn't their initial target - but was with a MS-13 gang member who had been released by a sanctuary jurisdiction yesterday with an ICE detainer not honored. These collateral arrests are something that border czar Tom Homan has warned would happen in sanctuary jurisdictions. At one point, a woman yelled out "thank you" to ICE as a violent illegal alien was being arrested in her neighborhood. "

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The source is Bill Melugin. He's been boots on the ground on this issue for the past few years.

If y'all want to shed tears for these particular individuals, have at it.

#19 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-23 02:43 PM

Those poor, poor MS-13 gang members.

#18 | Posted by BellRinger

You love gang members. You just elected one.

#20 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-23 02:52 PM

I expect our prison industrial complex to backfill the loss of migrant labor. It's already happening in one of the S-Hole southern MAGAt states where they are holding prisoners beyond the end of their sentences because the hire them out and make money from their labor, there's a word for that, slavery.

#21 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2025-01-23 03:04 PM

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