Do these people not understand what illegal immigrant meant? It means not a US citizen, not documented here, no VISA.

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    They use that old lie “locals don’t want to do this kind of work” failing to add “at the wages I want to pay”.

    Their business depended on below-market wages so they’re upset locals demand a fair share.

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    Everyone who complains that their undocumented immigrants have been abducted should be arrested and charged with hiring undocumented immigrants.

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      Fucking preach. I fucking hate these people that say immigrants are taking jobs whilst simultaneously hiring nothing but immigrants due to costs and availability. Fuck them I hope they lose their farm.

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    I really wish people would add the word “Trump” to the title of every post about him so that my block filter picks it up

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    Why do we never see anything happen to the farmers who knowingly and illegally hire undocumented immigrants? Nothing ever happens to those who get rich from illegal labor practices (whether its wage theft or knowingly hiring those without the right to work)

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    And yet the article closes with a farmer saying he’d vote for Trump again, despite the destruction of his labor force and the damage to his livelihood. The cultists are sick.

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      Immigrant labor was a huge deal during Trump’s first term, so if they didn’t see this coming them there is no chance they will ever learn.

      https://www.wisfarmer.com/story/news/state/2018/08/24/where-migrants-documented-undocumented-fit-into-wis-ag-workforce/1085101002/

      Under the Trump administration, dairy farmers and their immigrant employees say they are facing increased hostility and fear crackdowns that could jeopardize their livelihoods. Meanwhile, there have been legislative efforts to expand guest worker programs to include the dairy industry as it grapples with a growing reliance on undocumented immigrants for its workforce.

      “If we couldn’t bring these seasonal workers over, we would have less horticultural production here,” said Jette Nantel. “And, we’d be buying products from other places and would have no say on the labor or environmental conditions there.”

      They then voted for BOTH fewer immigrants to work their farms AND higher tariffs.

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      That’s why I feel zero empathy with them. After all these years I think I figured it out.

      It’s a kink. A masochistic one.

      The general conservative wants to get fucked, hard. Like break my choker through my ass kind of hard. That’s why they voted Trump twice into office. They acted as if they cared about political correctness or Mexicans or Trans people or whatever show they put up to be angry about nowadays. Everything a lie. It’s only about being daddy’s little slut. And like the common Twitter Weeb, they want to make their fuck fantasy everyone else’s problem too.

      Don’t believe me? Then explain this article. I wait.

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        Yup. MAGAs want to be RULED. They’ve always wanted a mommy and daddy figure to tell them what to do, because thinking for themselves just makes their pore heds hurt sumpthin’ awful.

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        I’m not even sure why you’re mad at the above poster. It doesn’t look like they had a chance to disagree with your point even. If anything it looks like they are on the same page as you. Who is it exactly you’re challenging and why?

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          I am not? I know we are on the same page? I vented, but not at him. I am sorry if my comment appeared as such.

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            So are you are using ‘?’ Here Because you’re not asking a question? Is this how you express emotions instead of asking questions?

            I can’t see your face or hand gestures or tone so emotion doesn’t convey very well in text form on it’s own. the end part looked like you were demanding an answer from someone. At first I wasn’t sure who that was directed at given everyone is on the same page here. I was expecting you were using punctuation the same as it was intended for communicating. Now I can’t understand if you’re angry, asking questions, or making demands. Or if you’re some sort of shitty AI bot glitching.

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        It’s all they fucking want cos they hate themselves deep down. I treat them like shit since that’s what they put out.

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      Yup, that’s why I treat magats like the scum they are and give them no leniency. Make them feel very fucking uncomfortable for them demanding our attention so badly that they decided to fuck everyone’s future over it. They wanted attention so let’s get them our unhinged fucking attention

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    Can we point out the obvious? Farmers rely on exploiting desperate migrant workers in violation of labor laws. Milk should cost more than it does, because it is perishable and labor intensive to produce.

    It is not a good thing that ICE is sending people to death camps, nor is it ok that we are abandoning the rule of law to do it. But those are the victims. The farmers who have lower profits because they can no longer access illegally cheap labor are the real criminals.

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      They’ve been deporting those who are there legally too.

      With an insufficient workforce, pay rates going up isn’t necessarily enough to get you workers. Moving regions to get a new job isn’t usually cheap or fast.

      I don’t know if the previous pay rates were illegally low (the US’s definition of illegally low is itself low), but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they couldn’t & wouldn’t pay ~$20-30/h if there were workers available.

      Going from a labour-cheap world to a labour-expensive world also implies that people want to increase mechanisation and automation, and that’s not cheap or fast either.

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      Get fucked I never once in my life met any poor farmer like you are speaking of, those days are long gone. Maybe one day I will shed a tear for a business that isn’t viable because they depend on exploiting labor to extreme measures and not paying a living wage. We are all victims of the capital class, you’re just one step away from being a millionaire though right?

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    “It’s scaring the farming community,” Machia admitted. “We didn’t think they’d come for the people who help us milk cows.”
    Even though Machia says he would still vote for Trump, the recent crackdown has prompted a deeper reckoning within his community — and perhaps, unexpectedly, a new sense of appreciation for those they once took for granted.

    “I enjoy having leopards chew my face, and I beg for more.”

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      Since the same farmers had issues with Trump screwing them over by targeting immigrants during his first term, we know that they would absolutely vote for him again because they love getting their face eaten.

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    People going to be living in an Amish Paradise pretty soon!

    At 4:30 in the morning I’m milkin’ cows
    Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows…fool
    And I’ve been milkin’ and plowin’ so long that
    Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone