Farmers Are Panicking Over Trump's Deportation Plan - The Logical Leftist

[TexasTowelie]

President-elect Donald Trump's deportation plan is causing widespread "panic" among farmers at risk of losing staff and business.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. The easiest deportation targets will be the people who pick our fruits and vegetables.

Can't wait to see the hordes of eager Americans to take these jobs. Higher prices for food coming, yes indeed. And lets pay another 17% for everything we consume.

[onecaliberal]

2. It's them getting what they voted for. What in the fuck did they expect.

[czarjak]

9. The next Mexican that a Republican cares about.

Will be the first Mexican a Republican cares about. Unbelievable!

[Historic NY]

3. Get them lazt MAGA bro's out in the fields

[BOSSHOG]

4. Okay farmers who voted for trump

Share with us how you did not know he would do this. And what will his tariffs do to what you have left. Make farming great again. Yahoo!!

[JT45242]

5. Wait... I thought you'd only deport the brown people working in. Democrat cities

Oh shit...these fuck stick racists are about to enter find out stage.

How I wish mango Mussolini would also enforce penalties on the employers who were using undocumented immigrants. Lose their workers and have to pay hefty fines.

Stupidity and racism might just have consequences.

Of course, I firmly believe part of the plan is to enslave people who are enemies of the state on work prisons. After of course mango Mussolini and his donor oligarchs get their huge skin cut off the top.

[czarjak]

10. Don't forget those ag subsidies.

You know, the good socialism.

[sheshe2]

6. So, I'm curious....

How did they vote?

[33taw]

7. Rural America is solid Trump country.

[sheshe2]

11. I know.

It was really just a rhetorical question. They bought it and now they own it.

Sure, we will feel the price increase however I live in a blue state and have small farms here. I will be buying locally. F*** them.

[33taw]

13. I live in a rural county in a purple state. This will have a huge impact on corporate farms - too bad.

I will buy from organic and local growers. I can also use my own garden.

[elleng]

8. as it should

[Metaphorical]

12. There may be some interesting side effects here

* Migrant workers are going to go to blue states, where we'll happily take them
* Red states are going to find that they can't get migrant workers at any costs, especially as those who are in the country legally get picked up in the deportation process. This happened during Covid in the South, when farmers couldn't get enough labor to work the fields, staff the processing plants, or butcher the livestock and watched as their farms failed.
* Take out immigrants, and it becomes evident that US population is SHRINKING, and this rate is highest mainly in red states. This will push up labour costs, and make many businesses that have essentially been subsidized by subpar wages to immigrants go belly up.
* The vast majority of all farms that use immigrant labour are factory farms owned by corporations, not private farms owned by families.
* I see a rising movement in the blue states (who are the primary purchasers of those products) in boycotting these forms, and encouraging grocery stores to go local. This is already happening, but it will accelerate.
* I suspect that in 2026, there will be a major backlash against the GOP in the House and the Senate. In 2024, the GOP was defending 10 states while the Dems were defending 24. In 2026, that switches, with the GOP defending 24 states vs. 10 Democrats, with an unpopular president in the White House. Trump "won" the popular vote by the tiniest margin since the 19th century, he has a paper thin majority in the House (and a fractious leadership) and a Senate that is only slightly more forgiving (and less in Trump's pocket). The devastation on the farms is going to carry a lot of impact.