Immigration Reform: Our Farms and Food Depend on It.

[@brianapena6972]

most of these farmers are complaining if they do send immigrants back to where they came from but then half of them voted for Trump... I'm confused!

[@raulvillanueva846]

Briana Peña son hipócritas

[@pauljohnston9446]

Briana Peña ....you aren't half as confused as those stupid sob's that voted for trump and are going to lose their farms in a trade war started by. ... trump

[@imafriend1336]

Briana Peña was there another candidate?

[@boosteddaily1294]

@@imafriend1336 What?!?!?! Lmao.

[@margeregan7497]

Because of the China trade deal. They could afford Americans if they had a guarantee income from shipping to China. If they want immigrants, let them hire new Visa applicants then help them become American Citizens before their Visas expire!

[@velascojidon390]

Those employers have get together and go talk to the government and let them Know what's going on.they need workers.respect for the immigrants that work hard everyday without benefits.

[@RM-qw2rw]

It doesn't matter if you are legal or illegal, people are showing they true colors. My family been in the U.S.A for many year's my grate grandfather fighting for our country in WW2, my uncle in Vietnam and my brother Iraq and Afghanistan but still we get judged by our skin. Being in the U.S documented doesn't change the way you get viewed.

[@justsayen2024]

Indeed

[@RagnarRobledo]

Nope !! They get tunnel vision ,they hear your name and or last name or see that you're Brown colored and immediately assume that you are from Mexico 😂 , I was talking to a woman the other day and she straight up told me I don't speak Spanish 😂 and I was like I haven't said a single word in Spanish ! I don't even speak Spanish fluently 😂😂😂😂

[@gustavotrevizo6957]

If you guys (owners), take care of your business make a union with every farmer in this country and fight agaist crazy politicians and crazy laws.

[@bobbyclay4006]

good you just won't cheap workers

[@juanfigueroa9148]

@@bobbyclay4006 I'm pretty sure you want cheap food

[@cathiehutcheson6556]

They won’t do that; they all voted for Trump who is going to deport all farm workers.

[@leoclaudiobarocio9535]

They voted for this! They are just getting what they wanted.

[@kingdavidandkingjeho]

I've worked on farms, the rancher refuses to pay more and no lunch breaks and no portable restrooms.

[@Brad-sh2wn]

Should say what farm it is.

[@artemiovargas1928]

there you go my fellows American's go get it, go ahead and get your jobs.

[@mauriciochavez914]

artemio vargas very true they won't make it . let them have there jobs see what happens

[@artemiovargas1928]

Mauricio Chavez hahaha that's right.

[@noahsilva4708]

artemio vargas I think you're saying this as a joke right Americans don't do hard labor

[@weirdfan88]

XD I used to do it since I was 8 I don't mind going back

[@weirdfan88]

Benny Hill Yeah right what?

[@lifeistoshorttolookback]

I will pick cabbages but only if you pay 40 dollars an hr and it's union with benefits....

[@fakku6356]

well said brother

[@noecamarena1896]

Martinez 1965 hell yeah

[@mein214]

Martinez 1965 LOL

[@seattlelite3136]

Even if you get $100/hr you won't last a week hahaha I really wish fucking piñata Trump build the wall and deport all illegal work force so we can see this fucking racist country fall to the ground, then he will be in his knees begging for Mexicans to come back. hahaha

[@iruverchere5969]

Marco Karreon pay 5 times more the food, now you are happy. enjoy it.

[@matiasgutierrez435]

people in the us would not work a garden to feed themselve or clean their own homes

[@friodetuahusencis.francisc879]

You're right American people don't work in the not even construction landscaping

[@cmleoj]

I’ve been doing both for sixty years. Not sure why you think a small subset represents the whole population.

[@Tazos-boxing]

nice joke lol

[@machen-j5p]

Garden 😂😂😂

[@cmleoj]

@ I keep a garden. It’s good stuff!

[@shaunestorm8621]

Can someone please get me on the farm work program in the states? I'm ready to work

[@fhuber7507]

Farmers don't want legal immigrants... they'd have to pay a fair wage.

[@juanfigueroa9148]

Legal immigrants don't want farm jobs

[@RagnarRobledo]

I was reading an article the other day regarding a farmer that was advocating for visas getting isaued to the farmworkers , the thing is that farmworkers that have visas don't want to work in the fields anymore.

[@95bochamp]

Apparently there are a lot of unemployed people in Kentucky. Why don't they advertise there?

[@mlugo9154]

Any comments to this reality? Where is the people whom normally post stupid comments about immigration reform? I see they are getting ready to go pick vegetables and fruits.

[@elimonjal]

have Trump give temporary work status to illegals

[@jaunfigueroa1385]

M Lugo we did it before we would do it again

[@copkhan007]

People do not appreciate a good thing when they have it, they realize only after it is gone. All the immigrants should charge 4 times as much, plus paid vacation and benefits now.

[@ed713ca]

Get American teenagers of their asses and make some honest money. What did we do in the past . Slavery aside. Come on folks. Lets Make America great again. ✊✊✊✊✊ Make America Great Again.

[@parambond]

This is ultimately a sociologicall issue for humans to blame somebody for there problems which they are responsible for. America is going through a phase where they are blaming,Mexico,Canada,Europe,Chiba,India,Iran etc for every thing under the sun. Last decade it was Russia,Afghanistan,Libya,Iraq,Yemen,Syria, In the 70s it was Korea,Vietnam,Cuba etc. Think about it.

[@MiguelMunoz-h2l]

Good one.

[@rhvreramon]

Did you try Kentucky

[@vetotelez9271]

trump supporters gonna have to eat dust

[@janebook294]

FUCK YOU PEPPER BELLY ,LEAVE

[@terryjohnson3479]

I only eat beef and have for several years. It doesn't need picking

[@Brad-sh2wn]

​@@terryjohnson3479that's funny you may get gout.

[@FedericoRodriguezfedechef]

Thank you trump !!!

[@thermanuelrivera1009]

Thank him by taking these jobs

[@luissantibanez8074]

who wants to work hard?

[@19azul89]

I used to ... ... but then I met internet and videogames and I justdont want anymore... ... I mean , I prefer to live gaming all day in my parents house than work, for me and for many others , work is just not attractive anymore

[@tonyrodriguez6031]

nobody wants to work hard ,collect employment

[@santosvelasquez5688]

hey guys we have a lot of panhandling in Lake Worth come pick them up see if they'll work like we would do

[@teresamorales6444]

Trump doesn't care how it harms farmers.

[@gallegoc6005]

now even food comes from Mexico. great good thing we are so rich here in the USA who needs farms

[@gabeilanvm]

all we want is work and better quality life but some people call us rapers, criminals some of us maybe but, not all of us!!!God bless this great nation.

[@martybritton267]

Then apply for legal residence pay taxes and insurance from every paycheck you earn and most people won't have a problem with you as long as you are a legal citizen and pay your fair share it's that easy

[@gabeilanvm]

@ I think you’re not well informed even people without legal permit pay taxes.

[@martybritton267]

@gabeilanvm the problem is they broke laws by being here illegally

[@gabeilanvm]

@ I am agreed with that but, saying not pay taxes? That’s not true.

[@martybritton267]

@gabeilanvm ok so they pay taxes but they broke laws being in the United States illegally

[@leothelion2001]

yes you can have homeless and prison crew working there no problem but it would never be a fair trade to the farmer , people keep forgetting that the prisoners and homeless are on their predicament for one same reason : the inability of making honrdt money through hard labor

[@curtisforcum]

Good idea!

[@firestarter5038]

Leonardo di parma They tried that and the farmers have to go back and redo all the work the prisoners did because it was shitty work

[@theuglykwan]

Doesn't work because you need people who are fit and can endure the hard work. Such people do not have the motivation to do backbreaking work when prisoners in some states are forbidden from earning more than 40cents a day. Not even an illegal would work for that. They need to reach the productivity levels of the illegals or the crops rot and there are losses. So it is better to not plant than to gamble due to the outlays.

[@charlesputnam9370]

Putting prisoners to work on private farms sounds like slavery.

[@charlesputnam9370]

What farmer s do is pay a piece rate so if picker works hard make s s good wage. The farmer know s how much it will cost per pound. Unmotivated worker has to be paid minimum wage. Cost goes up to more than farmer need s to make a profit. Good harvesters can make $ 20 an hour must be in good physical shape and high motivated people.

[@grandmadynomite7]

GIVE THE WORKERS, TEMPORARY WORK PERMITS

[@mariohernandez8675]

and now we are dealing with Trump... where is America's perception of reality gone ...

[@janebook294]

FUCK YOU ,YOU FILTHY TACO CRUNCHING WELFARE SUCKING PIECE OF SHIT ,GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY COUNTRY

[@bengalejandro8917]

WE HAPPY TO WORK IN THE FARM PILIPINO, MEXICAN

[@johnnyflores8116]

I feel sorry for those farmers myself a word 21 years in farming😢😢😢🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

[@elimon3095]

At the end U.S. civil people are gonna pay the consequences because if the farmers hire 20+ dollars laborers he's gonna have to raise the price on his products, and then we're going to see higher prices on the market. In other words we the people of the United States are gonna pay the price in the end.

[@donshilo2024]

the problem with this is we loosing the hard workers to canada new Zealand and other countries wich we all will end paying the high prise for this im not really worry but the ones who dont whant illegals here they will be the most affected because the poorest unemployed people are the ones complaining and even with the illegals gone this people will not work

[@cmleoj]

A $4 head of cabbage would improve the health of a lot of Americans.

[@simbimuniafu4925]

They should come in the right way...not thru the fences..you as farmers should get them by going for them and registering who will be working on your farms!cheap labour!

[@cristobalvillalpando7451]

Mr Farmer get maga to come and do your work is that simple

[@billpenicks8837]

I was a white farm worker for dairies, I worked both union and nonunion dairies and they were as different as night and day. These farmers that hire immigrants without checking on their legal work status have poor farming practices or greedy and don't want to pay a fair wage. Both the union and nonunion dairies were paid the same amount for their milk but the union dairies paid more and health benefits with legal work force. Nonunion depends on illegal work force to pay less

[@devastatn]

Farmers should be responsible to hire legal immigrants. Pick them up from the border with their papers in hand. Take them to their farms and house them. Work them. Put them on a bus back to the border they go. Signing out of u.s. customs. Come back next year. How is that scenario a problem.

[@loyddussault5101]

The fact that they don't wanna pay 11.00 per hour is the problem. It's time farmers made some adjustments, it's time that Americans figure out that food ain't cheap unless you hire people who will work for far less than a living wage . I can't wait for the next 4 years . Y'all going to own that vote .

[@MrJoshuacx]

Immigrants was taken American jobs. NOW AMERICAN GO GET YOUR JOB!!!

[@patatoh71]

yall need us

[@ElPerpuli]

The problem who alot of you people dont see is who this kind of work require alot of effort, energy and is hard, is a ver thought labour who you normally dont gonna get the enough money for do it, for inmigrants this works because at take this dollars to they countries is alot more than they gonna get making the same bad pay it work for rate change, but this work keep being bad pay in your own country, and that happen in every country. Work in a farm is very extenuant, and you dont get enough for the work, you wanna take it? Ok you gonna do it for 10 buck at hour? Of course not, you gonna ask at least 20 bucks for hour plus benefits, now you are discovering who inmigrants has been overexploted for decades, if you get this work, and get the payment who you are asking the prices gonna go up, because as always, the sellers, transporters, farmers and you american worker dont gonna lose they money, so the extra cost of this USA workers gonna be paid for consummers GG thanks for play

[@edgardeloera2874]

ElPerpuli If they país people more food would cost more than oil.

[@genewooster2233]

Well if those people who want Welfare Benefits like Ebt, Cash Assistance,Med,Sec8 or any of that other free shit they will have to do community service at 40 hrs per a week in them farmer field's if they want those welfare benefits this is a good why for them to payback there debt to taxpayer & government. And then we have those people that are in our prison system they can be working in them farmer fields too and they can do the 40 hrs per a week of community service to and this is how they can payback the taxpayer & government for housing them in those prison

[@MiguelMunoz-h2l]

Not a bad thought.

[@jackjones3001]

Every American who needs a job and voted for Trump, should go and work in the fields. Not just pimp patriotic, is time to do the walk.

[@bettydavis563]

Stop welfare for people who can work..no food stamps..if you can work .restart the brasaro program. Stupid that gave pre better workers permits..come work s crop..go home... Now they go to welfare office..don't tell me they don't..I am from California..get hurt go to emergency room..given care ..tax payers pay..not farmers..dig into this all sides..

[@johnbreakfield8225]

Should have prisons bus in work crews

[@russ5064]

John Breakfield

[@trevorsmit2454]

what,u r saying that criminals should do this jobs i would never eat vegetables touch by criminals

[@russ5064]

Trevor Smit I guess in a roundabout way is what we're saying is there's other resources. so stop fooling yourselves that we need illegal immigrants to do these jobs. because by that time even the prisoners won't be illegals. They will be legal prisoners because we will have already handed over the illegal ones.

[@russ5064]

well maybe even with a welfare check you get it Pickers check if you do the work there's always a way

[@trevorsmit2454]

Russ Elliott no sir i only was talking about prisoners if the US needs or not ilegals IS NOT MY BUSINESS

[@SteelFabricator-os7sx]

This was like 11 years ago! Good thing Trump will be coming into office,he will make things much better

[@vivianamcdaniels8237]

put the Yankees to work. I am sure he vote Trump , so don't cry

[@Bbbbbbb486]

I’m confused- can’t they eventually sponsor the immigrants after knowing them for a while? Genuine question

[@elgallitodemorelia1603]

i need at least 28 a hour and dental care and 2 weeks vacation pay holidays pay and bonus by the end of the year

[@davidrodriguez-rk4ee]

And I can bet that all of these people voted for trumpo! YOU REAP WHAT YOU VOTE FOR!!

[@Jose-gj8hv]

Get Irish-Americans to pick them. 😂😂😂😂

[@johnbreakfield8225]

Sentence criminals to farm labor

[@russ5064]

John Breakfield and stop welfare checks. or better yet to get a welfare check along with a paycheck go do some picking

[@elimonjal]

they are lazy and crooked

[@russ5064]

elimonjal they may be criminals but they're legal criminals. so I don't care if it takes all damn day to pick one cabbage.

[@dmggarcia3845]

Russ Elliott actually anyone who has committed a crime is illegal because going againts the law is illegal from what white america has interpreted it to fit the narrative! you fucking moron! the only difference is the "immigrant" part! so you can say their illegal citizens!😉😂😂.. and that is accurately interpreted by your ignorant logic!.. but you guys are too stupid to realise that you are confusing your selves! that's how stupid you guys really are!😒..sad isn't it!

[@johnbreakfield8225]

DMG GARCIA you are a racist idiot

[@ikecruzii9643]

timing is critical , and who can you trust for that timing migrant workers , always on time , hard working , diligent , excellent work ethics and now crops are rotting and farmers are losing millions and even their businesses. Who do we have to thank for that ? guess?

[@joecain3710]

you must pay your American workers 150 a day to get them to pick your fields

[@1tiredcitizen796]

It's not that people in the US don't want to do the work as much as it is that people want to make a decent wage. None of these people even mentioned how much they are paying their workers, but it's obvious that they want good workers to work for less than the job is worth.

[@joycejune5172]

what could be more important than food? I'm working to match local labor with farms that want to provide decent housing, clothes and a lifestyle that works! watch me!

[@ronaldlogan3525]

Sending children to school is too expensive. Send the kids out to pick crops. We will have a whole new generation of crop workers with no education and no rights.

[@jaunfigueroa1385]

I will pick cabbage I did it before 40 years ago

[@williamstephenson6387]

Americans would work the hell outta these jobs! Just not going to do it for min. wage.

[@troypolamalukingtroysouthe8054]

lol. just say you're lazy man c'mon. spit it out

[@stevensteelman3030]

Brothers are not going to work on the farms. Only a small percentage have ever done that. Mexican and some other Spanish speakers are the ones that work in the fields and Ranches. What the farmers have to do is build temporary housing near the farms or on the farms for the workers. The Asians use to work on the rail roads In the US. Now they are buying Many corporations and companies Then sending the profits back to the far East. The Indians are buying the liquor stores and hotels and pay the Mexicans peanuts to work there. Choose to live like GOD says in the holy Bible, revenge is mine And forgive everyone everything! And you will live and learn the way our forefathers instructed US. Teach the new generation not to be so touchy feely about everything and get in one of our five branches of the military and go and serve overseas! Jesus loves you When you learn about him in your heart you realize man made religions do not cut it

[@florineyoung3266]

Where is Trump and his kids? They would be GOOD. At it.

[@albertgonzalez1423]

Make the homeless work the fields. Theirs an idea

[@jessforester4486]

Wow a whole11.00 per hour pay rate. I know why they don’t get local for that low rate.

[@jacojonker7735]

if the American work on the farms a cabbage wil cost like 40$

[@joelwisch2]

"We are going to import our fruits and vegetables, or we will import our labor. NOT true. If you pay the wages that allow men and women to live, you will get your labor. That has been the rule ...always... And if we do not, we have workers who cannot afford to buy medical care, or almost anything that living in the United States requires. Anyone who has inspected migrant labor camps know the abuse the employers have used on their work force and that abuse is just everywhere. That ends too.

[@joelwisch2]

It is far less expensive to buy fruits and vegetables from over seas than it is to maintain an illegal alien work force in the United States. Good places to research: www.cis.org www.fairus.org www.numbersusa.com www.immigrationcounters.com

[@juanfigueroa9148]

Can you say $35 for 2 tomatoes at the local supermarket...higher wages for crop pickers means higher food cost

[@abelcerrillo2162]

before i was paying 1dollar for 4 mangos now they are $1.77 each.....i was getting my 20 mangos for 5 bucks an really enjoying my stack of mangos

[@crazyhorse3275]

It’s just a matter of time food price will go up so bad everything will be coming from other countries.

[@maryewer7322]

Use prisoners who don't pay child support

[@pizzapocket7878]

It's sad that American farmers are have to stop growing crops cause they have no workers. Only I'm America

[@michaelbaker9746]

they need smaller farms that they can manage

[@whitneya.6930]

Michael Baker 2% of the population are farm owners. If we all scaled back to homesteads we could manage within the immediate family, you all would starve.

[@rhvreramon]

Oh well. Popcorn please.

[@jerrybronson1984]

they should have employed local Labour first

[@AnnaAnnaYes]

Bet they voted for Trump!!

[@jerrybronson1984]

maybe you should go to the schools and employ children like I had to do when I was in high school food to eat and clothes to wear

[@MercedSolis-h9h]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@delsabelardo8422]

Let the unemployed american people to work in farm land and don't depends on foreighn immigrant worker's,the problem of Americans are employment and their homelessness,due to high cost of rent ,so these are their chances to end up food shortage and unemployed american people .

[@adrianhidalgo9699]

Wow. Sad about those farmers

[@Beebop121]

I'll pick some cabbages. No problem.

[@Dleon918]

asdfasdfadsfasdfasdfa did you make it to the farm?

[@frankgomez6445]

Gustavo Duran ikr they think it's so ez I'd like to see them try

[@andreazambrano6428]

that,s what they wanted!

[@lance8080]

End welfare you will have loads of workers then.

[@abelvargas5473]

o.k. now, who's gonna pay 5 bucks for a head of cabbage ??

[@cmleoj]

Everybody would be better off if it cost that much. A bunch of huge butts streaming into Walmart looking for dirt cheap prices. But healthy food, picked with a living wage, and we’ll all be better off.

[@johnsimon4263]

No No No US citizens are hard workers😂

[@jerrybronson1984]

brother's people out of work and why are they out of work are they trained not to work they should not be overfed overpaid to be lazy

[@-badkarma--1562]

Immigration and migrant workers are two different issues ......

[@whoahorseywhoa4685]

the farmer sound foriegn

[@cathiehutcheson6556]

Too bad the farm bureau and farmers voted for Trump. They will be put out of business.

[@anuragg-p8k]

So without cheap slave labours these landlords have to give market rates 😢

[@saullozano8068]

if i get pay 40 dollars an hour i would too

[@georgeaguilar1162]

why people can do the job but the thing is it's more pay for them and that means vegetables fruit whatever it is at cities the price for those vegetables is going to be higher it's one thing for the other

[@cristinamorris4339]

thats a fare price to pay for your workers

[@Jeff-ni4rn]

how about actually taking a week to train the unemployed so they can do the job a migrant has done all his life, labor is labor it takes time to train...

[@juanfigueroa9148]

If those people had the same motivation as the illegals then chances are they wouldn't be unemployed and definitely wouldn't want to work a crap job like picking crops. Oh the karma....lol

[@johnsmith-zv8ws]

its the construction jobs they take from americans

[@Rob-xv6bx]

Start paying a FAIR wage, Try that !

[@patmahomesofGMs]

Yep, we're ok with even more inflation!! I'm with you brother! I'll pay three times for my groceries to get American labor great again!

[@erickrosas775]

yo. pienso. que. necesitamos. ayuda. de. tadas. la. empresarios. que. se. venefician. de. nuestra. labor. algun. dia. tendre. mis. papelez. y. los. cuidare. porque. es. lo. que. anelo. para. poder. trabajar. como. dios. manda. solo. este. gobierno. save. cuando. nos. daran. esa. libertad. para. poder. trabajar

[@eduardoocon4954]

Come on! The greatest nation on earth can’t solve a common sense problem? We have competent leaders we just have some making too much out of a broken system both financially and politically.Don’t criminalize hard working humans and fix the problem.

[@virginiasoto1859]

u know what why not put the prins

[@stevencampbell365]

This article is dated 10 ago years what happened??

[@terriroot7665]

Not for a non liveable wage

[@GSXSF1k]

You guys voted for the orange man. 😂😂😂😂

[@rickmassey5802]

The government needs to put prisoners out in the fields working for farmers, oh that's right we can't do that 80% of them are illegals

[@gustavobarajas6155]

Most white flight is going to mexico so.....

[@ricardocarrera1379]

so. .....there's it goes the economy

[@Srn1213]

Raise price cut your profits.