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20–40% Workforce Loss: How ICE Raids Devastated California’s $49 Billion Agricultural Industry (lemmy.world)

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[–] QuadDamage@kbin.earth 14 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Bit controversial but honestly deserved, most of those farms are growing water intensive crops AND only hire migrants so they can blackmail them for terrible wages.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm only a little torn about this. On the one hand, I'm all for ending the exploitative labor practices that abuse migrant workers.

On the other, deporting or detaining them is the worst way to do it. It punishes the wrong folks.

[–] QuadDamage@kbin.earth 5 points 4 days ago

Agreed, if someone was really concerned about "protecting jobs" they'd arrest the farmers that hire and abuse migrants.

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