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Tuesday, July 01, 2025

California Produce Rotting in Fields Because of ICE Raids

In the vast agricultural lands north of Los Angeles, stretching from Ventura County into the state's central valley, two farmers, two field supervisors and four immigrant farmworkers said that the ICE raids have led a majority of workers to stop showing up for work. That means crops are not being picked and fruit and vegetables are rotting at peak harvest time. One Mexican farm supervisor, who asked not to be named, was overseeing a field being prepared for planting strawberries. Usually he would have 300 workers, but on this day he had just 80. Another supervisor at a different farm said he usually has 80 workers in a field, but on that day just 17. Link: YouTube.com .

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 08:33 AM | 30 COMMENTS | permalink

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In office just five months, Donald Trump has been destroying the US economy while enriching himself, the Trump Family, and US oligarchs. His son Barron recently made $40m in cryptocurrency trades. Meanwhile ICE raids have been terrorizing immigrants, tearing families apart, and wrecking the US agricultural sector. Trump's idiotic tariff policies have also increased the price of consumer goods in the US. AIPAC-funded House Democrats stifled a recent impeachment bill against Donald Trump after he ordered a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, which is a priority for Israel, but not the hardworking American taxpayer. A recent poll reflects that American pride has slipped to a new low: Pride among Democrats tumbled, while Independents sunk to a new low, more than offsetting an increase in pride among Republicans. Link: Gallup Poll.

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The worst US president in the history of the world also wasted 2.2 billion gallons of water earlier this year, when Dummkopf Trumpf recklessly ordered the US Army Corps of Engineers to open up two dams in northern California. Meteorologists predict a drought in America's southwest this year and a heat advisory was already issued for parts of the US, making Trumpf's waste of water an epic blunder.

Simply put, Dummkopf Trumpf is America's Godzilla, destroying the US from within, starting with the agricultural sector.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-01 04:24 AM

On top of everything:

A satellite program that has historically been a key source of weather forecasting data will be discontinued by 31 July as the US enters peak hurricane season, according to the already resource-strapped NOAA. The federal agency, which includes the NWS, initially said that it was going to lose access to the satellite data by 30 June. But in a recent update posted online, NOAA said the deadline to decommission the satellite system was pushed to 31 July, at the request of a top official at NASA. Hurricane season runs through 30 Nov and NOAA forecasters said in May that they expected this one to be more active than an average year. The season typically reaches its "peak," its most active period, around August and September.

Link: www.cbsnews.com

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-01 05:16 AM

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#3 | Posted by shoeless at 2025-07-01 08:45 AM

Don't worry, some MAGA s*&^bag like ScottS for fistedp%&&^ will be along shortly to explain why not having strawberries or other fruits and vegetables is a good thing.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-01 09:31 AM

Arrest the farm owners.

#5 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-07-01 10:21 AM

I TOLD YOU SO HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

#6 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-07-01 10:29 AM

The only thing honest with that entire article was from the embedded video - over three quarters of the nation's fruits and nuts comes from California. Clownshack - you are a fruit - are you a California fruit?

You know what was missing from that article? How about a picture of a field full of rotting crops. You know if they actually had one, they would have included the picture. More liberal BS.

#7 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-07-01 10:30 AM

#7 | POSTED BY SCOTTS

The proof will come in the form of increasing produce prices, you flaming idiot.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-01 11:07 AM

Time to start using prison labor for road and farm work. We have to house and feed them, put them in Chain gangs.

#9 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-07-01 11:21 AM

If that isn't enough labor start rounding up whiney Liberal's and call it re-education camp.

#10 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-07-01 11:23 AM

^ This is the type of stuff the Soviets and Chinese communists did and still do.

I always figured fartknocker for a communist pig. He wants socialism for himself and his fellow pigs; everyone else can go work in the fields to feed him.

Aint that right, pig?

#11 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-07-01 02:24 PM

At least they caught that evil taco lady. She was there doing her evil taco schemes and hiding in plain sight!

That was some impressive police work right there.

I feel so much safer knowing the evil taco lady is now behind bars soon to be sent to a foreign gulag to pay for her evil crimes.

#12 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-01 02:27 PM

#11 was for fortfisher, who's dumb posts were deleted for being pro-communist propaganda.

#13 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-07-01 02:27 PM

Arrest the farm owners.
#5 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Nationalize the farms.

Force detained migrants to work the farms as slaves under the Thirteenth Amendment.

#MAGA

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-01 02:33 PM

"You know what was missing from that article? "

You know what's missing from your brain housing group?

Common sense.

Harvest season is still approaching.

If 50% of the farm workers are undocumented and 70% of farm workers are not showing up to work can you do the math as to how much of the crops will not be harvested?

I bet you can. You just refuse to.

In California, particularly in regions like Ventura County, a significant number of farmworkers have reportedly stopped showing up for work, with estimates reaching as high as 70%. This mass exodus is attributed to fears of immigration raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, stemming from President Donald Trump's intensified immigration enforcement campaign.

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-01 02:37 PM

#14: "Hey, there youse picaninnies! Git back to work 'fore I smack you upside the head!" res.cloudinary.com

#16 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-01 02:38 PM

If that isn't enough labor start rounding up whiney Liberal's and call it re-education camp.
#10 | Posted by fortfisher

^
Pol Pot, welcome to the Drudge Retort!

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-01 02:43 PM

Out in Temecula there are lots of lemon trees. Lemons all over the ground.
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#18 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-01 03:32 PM

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#19 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-07-01 04:40 PM

All the people who got fired by DOGE could go to work in the fields.

#20 | Posted by Charliecharles at 2025-07-01 04:54 PM

All the people who got fired by DOGE could go to work in the fields.

#21 | Posted by Charliecharles at 2025-07-01 04:54 PM

All the people who got fired by DOGE could go to work in the fields.

#22 | Posted by Charliecharles at 2025-07-01 04:55 PM

All the people who got fired by DOGE could go to work in the fields.

#22 | POSTED BY CHARLIECHARLES

Not nearly enough of them.

Happy lettuce $20 a head.

#23 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-01 05:00 PM

@#21 ... All the people who got fired by DOGE could go to work in the fields. ...

Why?

Because they were fired, without justification, from a position they were qualified to perform?

That aside ...

OK, let's go there ...

How many people have been fired by DOGE?

Now, how many people do farmers need?

Also, add in the wages paid.

Yer up, please provide numbers to substantiate your view.

#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-01 10:55 PM

Arrest the farm owners.
#5 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Nationalize the farms.
Force detained migrants to work the farms as slaves under the Thirteenth Amendment.
#MAGA

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-01 02:33 PM | Reply

That's genius. We arrest the farmer, and make him farm his own farm with people from his cell block. We have to do something, Trump importing greatly persecuted white South African farmers doesn't seem to be working out.

#26 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-07-02 11:52 AM

The only thing honest with that entire article was from the embedded video - over three quarters of the nation's fruits and nuts comes from California. Clownshack - you are a fruit - are you a California fruit?
You know what was missing from that article? How about a picture of a field full of rotting crops. You know if they actually had one, they would have included the picture. More liberal BS.
#7 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-07-01 10:30 AM

Banking on societal collapse must be draining, so I understand your low-hanging assary.

Speaking of which, how much damage does ICE do to local economies?

As a man of numerals at what stage does ICE manufacture a profit and where?

They just abducted a beloved immigrant in the Oregon wine community.

These aren't law enforcement operations, they are terrorism.

The economic impact isn't stopping anytime soon.

#27 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-07-02 11:58 AM

"Canada, which remains the top export destination for California lemons, has imposed a 25% retaliatory tariff on U.S. lemons, and Sayre said he thinks the added duties "should slow exports" to the North American trading partner."

Fat Donnie Loser strikes again.

#28 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-02 12:52 PM

"The latest data shows that in fact, under pressure to meet quotas of 3,000 arrests a day, immigration officials have detained less than 6 percent of migrants known to have committed murders and at most 11 percent of those convicted of sexual assault, with more than two-thirds of detainees having no criminal background at all."

Heckuva a job, Adolf.

#29 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-02 01:03 PM

Canada, which remains the top export destination for California lemons

I just checked my local store and the lemons were from South Africa.

#30 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-02 01:45 PM

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