In interviews with the Washington Post, multiple farmers expressed their dismay with the loss of farm workers under Donald Trump's harsh immigration policies and his administration's waffling on subsidies.In a deep dive focusing on one farmer who voted for Trump, 36-year-old J.J. Ficke of Kirk, Colo...
Hard to say since a lot of immigrants with legal status have been kidnapped and trafficked out of country.
They stopped even trying to maintain that lie decades ago. 20 years ago the paper had an article with a local farmer vocally declaring “We can’t afford to hire legal migrant labor. Too much regulation. They make us provide toilets and pay minimum wage.”
I wasn’t surprised that farmers exploited migrants. I was surprised that it was so common that the farmer felt safe having his name and picture next to a quote in a regional newspaper declaring, “Of course I break federal laws.”
A lot, but it doesn’t look like the most, does it?
Hard to tell without due process.
The ones with paperwork registered and such are much easier to find so I would be astounded if the illegal ones are over half of the deported. Most likely the illegal ones are a very small minority.
There was a big document leak just the other day from ICE that showed that 2/3 of the people they arrest or something like that have no criminal records.
Are you a bot or something? I do not defend ice, nobody on fediverse would