“There are a lot less local people that want to do [this work], so we have to have this program,” said the owner of an apple orchard. “Without it, we’ll just be out of the industry. We go away.”
“There are a lot less local people that want to do [this work], so we have to have this program,” said the owner of an apple orchard. “Without it, we’ll just be out of the industry. We go away.”
Imagine you are a Mexican who comes to the USA every year to work in the fields and pick produce, or to work in a slaughterhouse, or any of the other myriad jobs that Americans won’t do for themselves. Now imagine hearing that brown people are having their work and student visas suddenly cancelled without trial and are being grabbed up and shipped out of the country, again with no trial; Many of being them sent off to a torture prison in El Salvador, even people who are not from El Salvador to begin with.
How hard are you going to think before coming to this country to work knowing that you could end up on one of those flights to El Salvador and that you’ll never see your family again? I fully expect produce to be rotting in the fields all across the country this year.
They’ll find ways of letting the undocumented immigrants work on farms. They just want them to be scared and terrorised so they’ll be easier to exploit.