Why The Unemployed Refuse Work Picking Crops - Even If The Pay Is High | Mass Deportation

[@diazordaz9585]

There you have maga people, take your jobs back

[@imperialmotoring3789]

Like you do those jobs.

[@diazordaz9585]

@imperialmotoring3789 I would, but I live in Mexico, , I'll go pick up your girl melons 🍈 for 30 bucks an hour ,

[@imperialmotoring3789]

@@diazordaz9585 How much does it pay to bend a taco in mexico? I bet I can bend one tighter than you!

[@AbelFigueroa-y9g]

@imperialmotoring…..So you missed the whole point. I worked those jobs while young. I don’t need to now. White people wouldn’t do this type of work. The point is, when these crops don’t get harvested the price if fruit and vegetables will go up.

[@caroldean9265]

@@diazordaz9585 The job been there but the big Corporations rather pay for cheap labor and some people will not work have felonies that they are not as fortune to have vote for them to get a job or housing they can’t get in a shelter like that rapist that going back to Whites House

[@kokeman3557]

MAGA PEOPLE TAKE THOSE JOBS IF YOU WANT TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

[@FlowerPower-r8h]

You do it.

[@MariaNunes-po5rc]

In this modern technology era, Computers Lap tops Sophisticated phones AI Etc etc... But people don't forget we are humans ( not angels) we eat and survive from what the land gives to us.... Was like that thousands of years ago...and will be like that indefinitely... Praise the people who puts food on our tables. Thanks

[@Panthersigma]

They won’t

[@cybertoe1221]

​@@FlowerPower-r8hIt's maga's problem. We didn't vote for this shitshow,

[@beverlykearsing3433]

@@FlowerPower-r8h you do it.

[@vickihawse3769]

Ask the farmer who he voted for

[@NEKingdom241]

Then ask if he gets Federal Subsidies

[@AmericanCitizen-f5n]

Demonrats because illegals line their corrupt pockets

[@pyrovania]

This is true. Most Central Valley farmers are Republicans.

[@DarksideDave42]

Not just farmers .... a lot of people are stuck in silos and never even considered the possibility of leaving their tribe and voting for the people who are honestly trying to make their lives better .... Unencumbered by the rational thought process ....

[@chunhaylee]

The price they pay for 'owning libs'

[@Democratsrock]

No worries, MAGA voters will be stepping up and taking those jobs! Country saved. 😐

[@tomgabriel5150]

Fat, lazy, is no way to go through the world son.

[@710MaryJane]

@@Democratsrock - Hahaha 😂

[@phiakate]

For free

[@curiousgemini]

From seeing Trump rallys, I think many of the MAGA voters could use a the exercise.

[@devilslayerthesaintofkille1317]

​@@curiousgeminimany scrawny harris voters could also use the same exercise.

[@bentcn8511]

At the same time billionaires, corporations, and landlords are getting richer.

[@richardszablewski1420]

Exactly

[@arturovillaluz2053]

They'll hire low-wage workers so the CEO can get a nice bonus at the end of the year.

[@tlalocmixtli3363]

Exactly and liberal governments keep helping Venezuelans, Cubans, and every other people in between but not Mexicans. The real food producers So the corporations can keep EXPLOITING US.

[@Twicethelimit]

@@arturovillaluz2053exactly, this is not about the illegal immigration. The owners defy the laws cause they know nothing will happen.

[@arturovillaluz2053]

@@Twicethelimit In the last 40 years I worked in several manufacturing plants and I never failed to see illegal immigrants working there. And we're talking big corporations.

[@e23779]

The pay is not, in fact, high. It’s so low that the workers live without heat or running water, in leaky 50 years old trailers with no utility hookups that these “farmers” (millionaire land investors who never lift a finger) hide on back areas of land far from the main road. Why do you think we keep getting e coli scandals with the produce? Because the farm workers don’t have anywhere to go to the bathroom. These millionaires get a sick kick out of lording it over people of a different culture, keeping them like medieval serfs or old south slaves. They give them unnecessarily short-handed tools to keep them bent over. They illegally spray chemicals with the workers right there, and no PPE is provided even to the workers who handle the chemicals directly. Americans all over this country get up at three or five o’clock to do all sorts of demanding jobs. But other industries don’t have the special deal agriculture has received where the government looks the other way and all the labor protections we otherwise have in this country just don’t apply to them somehow. When the guy said “even if I paid them $26” it doesn’t mean he pays anywhere near that. It’s probably closer to $6. And the fact that Americans won’t accept these conditions is used to defame our working class and our country as a whole. Don’t fall for it. Listen to what they’re really telling you: they think you’re uppity and out of line for wanting a safe workplace and warm clean place for your children to sleep at night, and their ideal country is one where only they, the rich, enjoy basic amenities. In their ideal world you would no longer have the ability to live better than a desperate migrant no matter how hard you work.

[@Desertthorn11]

What you say is absolutely true, but again the issue is, farmers can't keep prices low, if they have to purchase homes for the migrant workers, increasing the food prices. It's damn if you do, dawned if you dont

[@JA-jm8bk]

@@Desertthorn11 If food needs to cost more in order to eliminate this "Harvest of Shame" (1960 TV documentary on migrant laborers) then so be it. The only way someone is rich that by comparison, some people in the system/country in which they live or do business are poor or almost poor. If everyone (deservedly) made a decent, living wage, everything would cost more & we'd have less stuff. A good idea in my book.

[@adrianabotello9911]

If we live in a place that could produce vegetables, the least we can do is work some hours in our gardens. Cereal production can be industrialized, but regular vegetables need more human attention. Let us do a good thing for the people and for the country.

[@bsanchez3563]

​@@adrianabotello9911fair enough tbh

[@mohtek]

⁠@@adrianabotello9911 I agree. And IMO, we each need to have less grass lawns, and more functional garden.

[@Gionune]

Im a 100% Mexican and still wouldn’t work those jobs, I have mad respect for my gente that do these type of jobs..

[@jesusislord3321]

Good for you! As a American, they pay the workers slave wages. Americans know the deal, they ARE NOT going to work for slave wages

[@matthewrobert2888]

😂 do you hear you're self their's other ethnicities that would do these jobs to lol

[@WhereOceansMeeet]

The people who support Trump's extreme policies aren't grounded in logic, mate. They're grounded in bias and downright manipulation.

[@NoOneHere2Day]

No such thing as 100% Mexican.

[@raylopez3833]

@@NoOneHere2Day100% Mexican here with native language. I used to work in the fields and it’s hard work with very little pay. I’ll go back to work picking strawberries with $30 dollars an hour.

[@cubslose04]

One thing that has come out of Trump being elected is it exposed the bigotry and hatred among my family, friends, and neighbors. Now I know who believes what. I'll associate with them accordingly.

[@nonicosio]

so many of my own also; my father was born in Pasadena in 1925, a few years later the same thing, his four usa born siblings and my grandparents were taken out; returned and did work on the fields and jobs whites did not want, many more came illegally, were pardon by reagan and democrat congress, now they vote; and many, including a couple of siblings, we are large family, and other relatives and friends vote conservative; shame on them, the same people that have abused blacks latinos women gays and migrants are now voting for them.....

[@ac1888]

Absolutely. Thump up unto infinity 👍👍👍

[@julvwildcat190]

One of the issues I did not hear mentioned in the video about why a lot of migrants are scared to work in the fields is that there are lots of farmers who take advantage of them. They will get all the work out of them and refuse to pay them and then call immigration on them to have them deported. They have to put up with a lot of abuse because they're too scared to report any abuse.

[@MariaNunes-po5rc]

It's called the modern slavery..

[@ternesiajackson7277]

Exactly 💯 I don't empathize with the farm owners, my empathy is for the illegal farming migrants

[@chumpthetraitor7331]

Not only the farm dude. It's everywhere. Also happens in construction. They pay the slave wage and threaten to report to ICE. That's why they are rich and vote for DonOLD.

[@nothingruler14All]

There should be a migrant worker program that allows them to come here legally and earn good money harvesting our crops for us, and protects them from abuse. Then they can bring the money home to their families and if they want to, start working towards US citizenship.

[@chumpthetraitor7331]

@nothingruler14All there is. It's called visa H2A. Where have you been?

[@lindakelley2676]

I picked apples in Washington and it was so physically hard my body was covered in bruises from the ladders, the bags, and we couldn’t get people to help the farmer who had a freeze coming. Mexicans, Vietnamese, and anyone who came either left or worked one day. I have mad respect for the workers, I was so exhausted at the end of the day I felt too tired to even drive home. I actually broke even after calculating childcare and gas. So made nothing from picking but made a little from sorting them, which paid by the hour. People have NO idea of how backbreaking it is. I was 25. Think of those workers when you put food on your table.

[@JA-jm8bk]

If food needs to cost more in order to eliminate this "Harvest of Shame" (1960 TV documentary on migrant laborers) then so be it. The only way someone is rich that by comparison, some people in the system/country in which they live or do business are poor or almost poor. If everyone (deservedly) made a decent, living wage, everything would cost more & we'd have less stuff. A good idea in my book.

[@douglasmorgan-b6g]

did you do it in a and efficient manner?

[@jcjcviews]

I picked cotton apples and did all sorts of menial labor, and even after years of schooling, I lost everything because I didn’t have money for a lawyer. Thirty years of struggle went down the drain, and no one seemed to care. What kind of society have we become programmed to accept? Is it race? Do people believe this makes you innocent? It's amazing. I miss George Carlin.

[@roalddahl1623]

It's a young persons job and you must be fit. That cuts out most Americans including many of the land owners who have no problem employing and screwing down migrants. Wake up America, especially Trumpers.

[@welfareoffice]

Walmart depends on farmers, I don’t why pay is not high

[@craigwilliams8471]

Yea maga get your asses to work, this is what you voted for .

[@ricardoresendiz6621]

What are you talking about you mean they're not going to be able to stay home watch TV and play video games all day long while they are collecting unemployment. That would be like taboo for them

[@jessehowell-t2m]

@@ricardoresendiz6621What people are you talking about??

[@ricardoresendiz6621]

@@jessehowell-t2m the hillbilly inbred maggots

[@berinmind]

We are hard working blue collar. We will survive

[@Jilla0559]

@@jessehowell-t2m You

[@Bastillemotors]

Just start growing oranges-I’m sure the entire MAGA crowd will line up, thinking it’s a recruitment rally!

[@JoeCatturd-hc6gz]

There's no American dream anymore only survival.

[@jdos5643]

The only hope I had with Kamala helping small business and the middle class lowering prescriptions food prices and helping ppl with becoming homeowners now it’s gone. Dark days are ahead. I can sense it.

[@mariablackwell2369]

@@jdos5643Same!

[@chrisjackson8299]

There is if you have your cdl with hazmat!!!😂😂😂😂

[@dimwitsadvocate6264]

@@jdos5643 Did you actually believe that Kamala was going to keep her promises?? All politicians lie.

[@averytucker790]

@@jdos5643 Don't worry tariffs will save us from high prices. Aggressively inhales copium/hopium*

[@PaulFrancis-hq2qr]

All the farmers know what was coming because all of them vote for him

[@christopherosborn7081]

Yep and its going to suck for everyone, but in the words of the orange messiah, "It is what it is."

[@Jilla0559]

They know what’s coming because Trump broadcasted it , fool

[@Jilla0559]

You Know Farmers Are Corporations Right ? They Voted red to keep Corporate Taxes Low - despite what it does to our Deficit Imagine that … he’s paying his workers with what should be your Taxes ! He bought Corporate Stock with what should be Your Taxes ….., they oligarchs get Richer America gets poorer and weaker

[@Rosko3333]

Chain gangs are coming back!No more free ride for inmates!

[@Staywoke7909]

Sounds like it’s time for white folks to get their lazy asses out in them fields. You dummies voted for the idiot 47!!🤣

[@Joe-xr3ir]

Anyone working the fields for 20 years deserves a green card.

[@soia421]

5 years would work for me

[@Kingkiller-n8z]

Hell no

[@A_Fenland_Demon]

​@@Kingkiller-n8z then you do the work

[@lyricofwise6894]

Should make them citizens, its better for the economy, and progressives gain more allies, and then finally beat this idiocracy culture that is Maga

[@Whiffinger1]

@@Kingkiller-n8z I hope to see you out there picking fruit and veggies next summer,

[@brentgreenhalgh5637]

“We pay some of the highest wages for farm workers in the country“, but he doesn’t say actually say how much they pay.🤔

[@Skyking6976]

One did say they could pay $26\hour and US citizens will not get up at 4AM to drive out to the fields and bust their azz all day.

[@Harvey-z4k]

@@Skyking6976 Yaa that guys full of shit

[@dolozambra2242]

Exactly! Pay fair wages, and people will work or go to the MacDonalds way. People will just move to the least effort for the same wages jobs, or convert to automatization.

[@gonzalezz-r2z]

All you maga people didn’t learn from Alabama 😂yall did a mass deportation only 2 Americans showed up to work in the fields and lasted 2 hours and the other one stole the fruits it only took 1 season for Alabama to welcome immigrants back with a hug and a raise 😂😂

[@LauraJdogmom]

Brexit also! There is soooo much evidence that this is a terrible idea.

[@PeTer-xd8nx]

A really hard job. It takes some time and pain until the body gets used to it. Untrained beginners drop out quickly.

[@jonguyen4411]

I think Alabamans many of them voted Trump this time too.

[@daebak_hana]

Im from NYC everyone knows the whole city is run buy paying workers under the table. No American is going to do all those service jobs for such low pay.

[@gokaren420]

Americans are not used to slave work anymore. Battered and bruised.

[@ronhall3686]

Billionaires have convinced people making 25 dollars an hour that people making 7.25 an hour are the problem.

[@dutchray8880]

Actually, in this kind of work you get paid by the bulk. I knew a guy who immigrated to the US illegally from Mexico, and he said he once netted $800 in a week picking tomatoes. This was probably about 40 years ago, so he must have picked a lot of tomatoes and had to work at a hellish pace. Also keep in mind that these people have taxes deducted, but don't file returns. The local, state, and federal governments keep that money, and the workers have to get new fake paperwork every year. You have to wonder how much revenue will be lost if the crackdown is enforced.

[@lanejohnson752]

Will Trump and rich followers do the work? Think about the country .Trump doesn't.

[@AZsunflower]

Picking tomatoes is hard work. Vines are sticky and your hands take a beating. Hard work and your hands hurt! ​@dutchray8880

[@Josefernandez35563]

@@lanejohnson752no, your mama will do it. Time to get her out of bingo.

[@chumps7974]

So true! They fall for it every 4 years

[@therustycook]

I live in Michigan. We are the number 1 producer of cherries and blueberries. We are number 2 in apples. We are number 3 in pumpkins. We are a major producer of grapes, peaches, and other fruits. I have worked in the past as a foreman on a farm. It is almost impossible to get local people to work on the farm. When we did get local people they were terrible workers. The migrants could produce two to three times the amount as the local workers. They were also more reliable to show up every day.

[@YvonneSchwartzYVON]

Same in the food service business.

[@stevedrinkard7297]

@@therustycook yep what you say is very true about the locals lousy workers IF IF they even show up

[@Michaelcj-m2d]

I picked cherries in T.C. aera was the only one who lasted the whole season even as they say was a gringo. The majority of locals that came did not last a week. Only ones that stayed was the migrants. This was in 1985 to 1987.

[@Michaelcj-m2d]

At that time I only had a bike to get back and fourth.

[@randyhilton6629]

Same in Wisconsin dairy farms.

[@Idontcare-g1n]

Cut off unemployment benefits and they fill the positions

[@paws4mercy643]

I am as white as casper the ghost and have worked picking green beans and planting onions because i was young and needed a job i worked ALL DAY bent over to fill a basket with green beans I worked from dawn to 5 pm and made 14 bucks for the entire day I have NO CLUE how these hard working farmworkers survive in those conditions for such low wages ITS CRIMINAL ive done it NO THANK YOU and GOD BLESS every farm worker everywhere I APPRECIATE YOU MORE THAN YOU KNOW I have nothing but L9VE AND DEEP RESPECT for our farm workers THEY DESERVE HIGHER WAGES and benefits and DIGNITY

[@DarksideDave42]

When I was young our family had a large garden, mostly tomatoes and green beans that we canned and then consumed through the year .... Usually about 100 quarts of each .... I know how it is to bend over picking green beans but not ALL DAY LONG .... that would be horrible, and to make decent money I would have had to learn how to pick 5 times faster ...

[@Mary-cg1sl]

$14 a day. I hope that's a typo. How long ago was this? There is no way to live on $14 a day. Bless you.

[@Ottawa411]

Those people started doing this work as children and they are very good at what they do. I was all set to take a job picking tobacco back in the 70's when my mother and a friend of hers helped me fly out west to stay with my brother and get a better job. Nobody thought that I should take any agricultural job because of how hard it is on your body.

[@bambilackner]

It's bc they shack up and make the younger kids watch the more younger Ines and then when the oldest is able to work they put them to work and the next child watches the kids

[@chawkins354]

​@@bambilackneru seem to know a lot about a group of people who are very close-knit...

[@178fireman]

I believe in democracy. America has made its choice. Im going to stockpile some popcorn while it's still cheap and sit back and watch the show. People want to challenge what all the experts are saying so let's wait and see who is right.

[@raygunner2437]

Ditto, recently started popping my own corn. Cheaper🥰

[@generalsifr2995]

Exactly! This time I am going to enjoy the show. Mass deportation. Welfare cut and everything those MAGA People depend on. Nothing nice to see those crops rotten in the field with Trump sign on them. After PA called I was rooting for Republican house and Senate. John McCain is gone. Obama will go and some of those fools will find out that their insurance is gone too. Now that the MAGA controlled both houses I will enjoy the show. I would love those Trailer park eviction goes off the roof. Good thing about eviction is that you are allowed to pick up some stuffs and go. Hope they will be allowed to take their Trump sign with them. This is going to be good.

[@Gothlite-i1l]

America is NOT a democracy - we are a Republic. Actually, we are a corporatocracy.

[@jimmahan4277]

AGREED

[@bluebandites]

make sure to buy all ur chinise goods ioff from temu before the price hikes from tarrifs

[@newjerseyselfdefense6199]

Notice he says - we payed the highest wages for food workers, but doesn’t say a specified amount.

[@ResseeC]

Exactly. I had the same thought.

[@normanpearson8753]

"Even if we paid them 26 dollars an hour . So they pay less ? It"s not great money . About 40 k per year .

[@BoomBillion]

​@@normanpearson8753 I know right! Much better to be a homeless bum making $0 and being a burden and an eye sore.

[@w.s.soapcompany94]

Right. That guy can keep his speculations about $26/hr..wake me when there's a real figure on the table.😴

[@brianniegemann4788]

They get the CA minimum wage, plus a commission. For every basket of fruit they bring to the trucks, the get a token, which is redeemable for cash from the employer. I don't know how much it's worth, but it's enough to keep them working.

[@marzix427]

You pay high, but you're also living in California which is the most expensive state to live in. It's slave labor working all day in that heat. $26 an hour sounds high if you lived in rural Indiana or Kentucky, but it's barely paying the bills in California where the houses are so much more expensive than in the other states and they are not paying $26 an hour, he said that as if it was a lot, they are probably making closer to $15 an hour.

[@nancypine9952]

I suspect they'll try to use men who are held in private prisons. It will still be more expensive, because they'll have to have guards, and they'll have no motivation to work hard, but the companies that run private prisons were cheering when trump was elected, and their stock went skywards.

[@akinpaws]

Now, consider that they have to have a place to hold the undocumented they'll detain, and that other countries may not be quick to allow tens of thousands of people back in. Voila, experienced farm workers available to work for pennies per day.

[@buckeyedav1]

That is a great idea actually Bring Back The Chain Gangs.. maybe they'll think twice about going back to a life of crime when they get out when they think about what it'll be like if they go back. Anna In Ohio

[@WaryofExtremes]

The private prisons weren't done away with under Biden, or Obama, or Clinton...

[@williamdavidthompson6306]

:musical_note: Master got me...working...on a Sunday...morning!

[@WaryofExtremes]

another comment thread I'm notified on but my comment is gone

[@maxfastest]

A person should not stay poor so another person can stay rich

[@alanjameson8664]

Labor is the source of all wealth.

[@jaimereynoso7688]

welcome to America.

[@richardkishita2766]

That's just the way the world works.

[@McCRBen]

@@richardkishita2766 Yes, but it doesn’t work. Why do you think there have been so many rebellions in Europe ?

[@wyatt12358]

THEY CAN QUIT ANY TIME THEY WANT AND MOVE ON TO BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS IF THEY CHOOSE TO.

[@FlowerPower-r8h]

I grew up on a farm doing farm work. This is what you get when you destroy family farms and create mega farms.

[@angelareimann6433]

Exactly.

[@eyepatch3769]

You need mega farms to feed a population our size Mom and Pops alone cannot feed the country

[@alanjameson8664]

California has a long-standing history of huge farms [derived from Spanish land grants] needing large numbers of temporary seasonal workers. Back in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries they were mostly White "tramps," whom many people feared.

[@Toronegro98]

​@@eyepatch3769Mom and Pop farms can contribute to the overall food supply...

[@knit1purl1]

A lot of food and goods are thrown away also. It's a tax write off for the business. If you don't believe it, search dumpster divers on KZbin. These people are not faking it.

[@Samy-c8o]

He is lying the farmers are only trying to hold on their own wealth. 😊😊😊

[@YvonneTerry-y4y]

You voted for trump and now you’re whining about not having a work force

[@joeylee9809]

Just get off your ass and work on those farms

[@wilkersteacher3]

Exactly!!

[@ronaldomadrebien7045]

@@YvonneTerry-y4y ….. yip, a bit like Brexit

[@lupuswarrior6785]

@@joeylee9809you first

[@melanieearly3450]

@@joeylee9809I’m not going to. I have a great education and a great career. It’ll be the blue collar maga that voted for this that will have to do it when they get laid off from their factories

[@david_209_13]

When you go to the supermarket and can't find vegetables and fruits ... Thank President Elect Trump

[@robertkennedy8503]

MAGA morons eat crap, not fruits and vegetables, have you seen how morbidly obese a lot of them are?

[@Outdoors386]

That's why I grow my own fruits it's more cheaper

[@technoverse101]

Key words: Work permits and green cards. Duh. An open border costs taxpayers more money than higher prices. Also consider that public safety and national security is priceless, and open borders destroys both

[@tbessy1963]

​@@Outdoors386well not everyone can do that. Nice to see sympathy for anyone else but yourself huh? Typical.

[@dolozambra2242]

Come on! Have you gone to the market yourself? Because obviously you don't read the labels; most of the produce are from foreign countries! Tomatoes, avocados, corn, and more are from Mexico. Bananas and mangoes, Ecuador. Just to name a few; so, what are the unemployed going to pick? We are paying for their vegetables and their illegals!

[@puntodetierra928]

Come on MAGA people! Step up and pick crops!

[@buckeyedav1]

I do I grow my own. Green Beans every year along with tomatoes. We will survive. Anna In Ohio

[@cybertoe1221]

​@@buckeyedav1That'll work out really well for people in apartment housing. smh A lot of people don't have the room or physical ability to plant a garden. I have back problems and bone protusions on my knees, so gardening is out of the question. I also live in a very small home on a small plot of land surrounded by woods. Animals would eat anything I plant before it takes hold. How about we just elect a president who isn't a moron.

[@sharon2434]

Most Americans are too lazy to pick crops, it's backbreaking hard work.

[@nunyabusiness3082]

Come back with your green 💚 card sweetie 😘. Bye bye 👋

[@berinmind]

​you are soft.

[@sammiejones-e5g]

The farmers is going pay 💰 MAGA more money to to pick the crop but there is one black man would never go in Theirs field to pick anything

[@sallyprzybil2404]

These are going to be the new Maga jobs…..they voted for this…they should be drafted to take care of the crops! That’s only fair….draft Maga!

[@vipermad358]

They are mostly too fat and out of shape. They'd die out there. 😂

[@niniv2706]

DOGE - Federal employees with useless jobs and/ or that are inefficient .

[@niniv2706]

By he way ... I am a produce farmer, family size operation 225 acres and we do not use migrant workers . That video is cat vomit for liberal cat ladies.

[@stevea2909]

@@niniv2706 More like Grift and Graft at the expense of us

[@niniv2706]

@@stevea2909 - My original comment has been removed ... I OWN a produce farm 225 acres of prime vegetable land 16' deep top soil ... I couldn't even buy back in 2024 . We sopped hiring migrant workers years ago ... Just a dead end . We heavily mechanized harvesting and sorting . We achieve with 6 employees what was done with 15 just 10 years ago . I do not care about politics ... Really I am not a sociologist or politician but ... This is too much lies . American people will have produce on their tables . I assure you of that . Later Steve . I am never going in politics ... Just too much lies .

[@janetlelham2816]

MAGAs, soon all these jobs will be available for you. Stop complaining, pull your sleeves up and start working.

[@emilyfeagin2673]

MAGA doesn’t work , it whines

[@darcy5761]

Take back those American jobs!

[@rolandovivar6864]

Good god, they wouldn't last a day. They'd be whining the whole time.

[@dubulous4455]

we already work......

[@pejbartolo2365]

@@dubulous4455 attending paid rallies does not qualify.

[@4dogs999]

The migrant workers get up at four in the morning they take two hour bus rides in a van. They get out and work and pick the fields for like 14 hours. They are fed beans and water. They take the two hour ride bus home. They get home around 8 o’clock at night. They come home to a house full of kids and a wife starving living in one house. They go to sleep. I get up at four rinse and repeat. That’s why they are here. We haven’t been picking our own crops in decades!

[@XYZ-bi9eb]

telling the truth and explaining the reality of the situation to stupid magas is a waste of time. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@RosaHernandez-vy4dm]

1/2 TRUE 🤪

[@LAPULGADE956]

Boooo hooooo hoooooo keep crying🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡

[@darenjohnson1390]

Spend the money here and not in a different country or get there visa

[@pejbartolo2365]

@@darenjohnson1390 Why do you care where they spend their money?When Ford sells cars o erseas, does that money stay in that country? Or iphone? You never complained when almost trillion dollars of iphone sales goes to Ireland , Agriculture is small fraction of that.

[@ArchAngle3D]

You are not small farms , your large corporations refusing to pay a living wage!

[@henrimatisse7481]

do you actually know that?. Or is it hard and dirty work with long hours so you can get a watermelon for $5?

[@timhazeltine3256]

Most Americans will not work in agriculture, even at $25.00+ an hour. Perhaps because they are too lazy and/or obese.

[@mjlh7079]

@@henrimatisse7481 A lot of it farm work is paid via Piece-rate aka piecemeal which, means that employees are paid by the unit when completing a particular task, for example, pounds, units, bins or bushels harvested, trees pruned, or acres mowed. In this case, a worker is compensated by individual output and not by an hourly rate. 5.50 dollars for 30 pounds of cherries (about .18 cents a pound) As a kid for extra spending money I picked beans for pennies on the pound, My cousin's son picked apples during school breaks to earn extra money for college. In 2007, the 1st year he did it, he was paid 15 dollars per bin, he got paid 17 dollars per bin in 2011, then left for college when the season for that apple variety was over. FYI: A full bin can weigh between 800 to 1000 pounds - that's a lot of apples) I'd wager the rate hasn't increased very much since then.

[@Pleaseopenyoureyes]

*you’re

[@DugrozReports]

Bingo

[@barrylenoble6705]

They did this in our past history in California when the watch got rid of the Chinese after building the railways and other structure programs they deported them. They murdered them. They burnt their towns. Have we not learned anything from history? Hope you all know how to grow your own food.

[@gailtaylor1636]

GOP would say that's fake news.

[@cpta03]

I grew up on a farm near Fresno. Farm work was a great incentive to go to college! Farm work is brutal - hot and dusty in the summer and cold and wet in the winter

[@alanjameson8664]

Not to mention valley fever and exposure to poisonous chemicals, among other little drawbacks. I will bet a full box of nickel nut bars [now retailing for about two bucks each] that Cadet Bonespurs has never done anything remotely like it.

[@agravery223]

🤫🤫🤫🤫 don't tell the faux trad wives channels promoting farm life LMAOOOOO

[@Megatron995]

Come pick oranges in Florida, and enjoy hot wet summers and dusty dry winters!

[@kamivelasquez3119]

​@@agravery223Like Hannah with Ballerina Farms.

[@GNMi79]

Cut off the welfare and Americans will do those jobs. If they refuse do them at $26 an hour, then you're still not paying enough. That's not a lot of money in California, where fast-food workers make nearly that much for doing a much less arduous job. Pay what the legal free market says the jobs are worth. We do that with practically every other job in the country, why should agriculture and construction be any different?

[@pejbartolo2365]

No politician would cut off welfare. That is a political suicide. They gave away 2.3 trillion dollars like nothing during Covid with the PPP. So thinking that politicians are fiscally responsible is just not realistic.

[@henryholloway3014]

Do not put that on Joe Biden that's something that's been happening for decades

[@XYZ-bi9eb]

stupid magas think that illegal immigration only started after sleepy joe won the election in 2020. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@PerishingForLackOfKnowledge]

Pay me 30/hr and I’ll work this job. They’ll never pay that.

[@Edsanchez09]

Facts

[@okamijubei]

Take it's been going on since Reagan

[@JeffreyWindley-n4i]

​@okamijubei Regan brought workers in because black people wanted a fair living wage . If you don't like these workers, blame republicans and greedy farmers .

[@CarlosRosales-lp4nh]

I drove thru highway 5 and all you see was trump signs . I don’t understand what this farmers want

[@cybertoe1221]

Round 2 of billions of dollars in bailouts.

[@castironanalytics9630]

Why aren't the farmers penalized for hiring undocumented workers? Hard Pass?

[@alanjameson8664]

Interstate 5, I suppose. I don't recall there ever having been a Highway 5 in California.

[@DouradaBambina]

They want cheap labor and racism, quite complicated

[@DouradaBambina]

@@alanjameson8664You understood, don’t be anal

[@kcaa3953]

That guy's not a farmer, he's an industrial agriculture operator. "Look, I pay my workers $5 an hour and make them work at 2am. Legal residents aren't going to do that!" How bout we unionize those jobs and see if people aren't willing to take the jobs. That illegal crap pay and stupid working conditions would go out the window and people would do those jobs. That's industrial ag for you.

[@mozz11]

keep dreaming buddy!

[@vintagelady1]

Americans are too spoiled & lazy to do hard physica labor, easier to take unemployment or fake disability or just sit around whining.

[@perplexingperceptions8888]

Typical alt right incel lies.

[@perplexingperceptions8888]

He pays $18-$20hr but you still wouldn't do it.

[@sheoneful]

​@@perplexingperceptions8888 but them prisoners will for time off they sentences

[@Samy-c8o]

The BIG CORP. STORES ARE ABLE TO GET IT DONE. 😊😊😊

[@therealhellkitty5388]

Great film called “A Day Without a Mexican” should be mandatory viewing in every school and legislature in the country.

[@jeannette.sgili.132]

Thank you.

[@kayfitzgerald309]

I watched it! It was Very very good! Definitely required viewing, FOR EVERYONE!

[@gsxrgoddess6]

and let us not forget it was trump who tanked the bipartisan border deal

[@paulne1514]

Guess you didn’t read it! Anyone with a brain would have rejected it too.

[@vladimirofsvalbard9477]

Because Democrats amended the bill last second to include amnesty for 2 million undocumented immigrants. Why? So that they could vote and help swing the election.

[@barqu1636]

You never read it, did you? That deal would have allowed 5,000 illegals into the country every day.

[@yotest3697]

His ambition to win so he could escape jail was more important than the country’s wellbeing

[@sA-ny2jl]

False propaganda

[@jring383]

If the entire business model depends on exploitation at every level, then perhaps it shouldnt exists. People will shift their priorities when goods more accurately reflect the cost involved to acquire them. But why should a CEO get to make millions sitting in an air conditioned office while the labor force bust their ass with grueling back breaking work and still be forced to live check to check?

[@melize7035]

The only logical comment!!!

[@msvulcanspock]

Well said

[@Odog78]

Stop blaming other people. Us consumers want the lowest prices, this is why the current system exists.

[@jring383]

@@Odog78 So stop blaming other people, but your blaming other people... got it.

[@relentlessprofanity]

​@@Odog78So go pick the fruit yourself. Or starve. Either way is fine.

[@amandasylvester8624]

1:53 90% of the produce consumed in this country is imported because the vast majority of commercial agriculture in the US doesn't produce FOOD.... it produces COMMODITIES that are then processed.

[@joeflatley8523]

Most of the central valley farmers voted for Trump right? Most of the people there did, Hispanic and all.

[@ternesiajackson7277]

They voted against their own self-interest, and now they will lay in the bed that they made

[@Jilla0559]

Trumps a very very very good liar and a poor manager People had trumpnesea

[@MerlotBaby]

​@@Jilla0559but he liters said he was deporting folks. They heard what they WANTED to hear

[@norcaloutdoor5462]

I am fine with Trump policy

[@dcummings336]

The real question is who did the farmer vote for?

[@michaeljunior1313]

lmao Trump

[@jonathanvilla7280]

The owner of the place I work voted red. Now he's about to lose 30% of his employees and they are the ones he depends on. Now he's stressed out. Lmfao. If you employ people with no paperwork don't vote for the jerk trying to throw them out. Just wait til the construction, landscaping and restaurant industry see how this impacts them. Ain't no kid outta high school hanging off a sus rope as a harness trying to frame a building.

[@juliocquiroga4068]

THIS PEOPLE DOES NOT VOTE O POLITICS

[@nunyabusiness3082]

@@jonathanvilla7280 why do people keep saying restaurant/food service I don't see these people working at a Greek or Italian restaurant🤣. Maybe tacos?

[@Cat-bg2ge]

Probably Trump 😂.

[@WillowEtain]

People need to stop treating these workers like our enemies. PAY THEM WELL. God knows they EARNED it.

[@sA-ny2jl]

Legal migrants work yearly during the crop picking season. For decades some rights activists have tried to get them better living conditions and schooling for their children. Those who come undocumented take away jobs from the regular yearly migrant workers.

[@nunyabusiness3082]

Get your green card and your welcome.

[@ericdwhitmorec]

​@@sA-ny2jlwell according to this guy, no they don't. Apparently the whole taking jobs narrative is not correct. If the farmer doesn't want to hire those workers...or there are not enough of them, then how was the job...taken?

[@ericdwhitmorec]

​@@nunyabusiness3082how do you get a green card and how long does it take?

[@nunyabusiness3082]

@ericdwhitmorec I live hear I don't need one. You 🫵 figure out what you 🫵 or your friends need to do. I'm not gonna hold your hand. Kapice?

[@irockz281982]

Come on, America! Get your lazy asses to work! As a Marine veteran, it sickens me how many hypocrites we have in America. They love pointing the finger at others but won't take accountability for their own flaws.

[@kevinmarshburn3654]

you first!!

[@irockz281982]

@kevinmarshburn3654 Lead the way buddy.

[@JohnWear-s3f]

Good! I voted for Kamala but I hope trump does everything we feared. Too many idiots in this country who don’t care until it hurts them or someone they care about. The funny thing is democrats will fix it after trump and people will forget and vote republicans back on. That’s if there’s another election.

[@DebraStrouth]

Ur so stupid biden is the reason America is suffering, u demon-crats can't even see the truth right in ur face

[@crazyhawaiidrivers4310]

Bold of you to assume we won't starve before that

[@gokaren420]

Why would you hope bad things for America? You racist democrats are the problem. Kamala couldn't even run a campaign....how tf can she run a country? She can't.

[@Megatron995]

I don't have my real-life conquering army yet, so unfortunately, we will have to keep playing along with this "democracy" BS until I do have one.

[@yana6118]

Noticed throughout this whole conversation, the farmer never said how much he pays his employees to pick vegetables and fruit.

[@waimar5457]

And I notice the reporter never asked... Neither about the pay nor workplace conditions.. And even more... she asked only the farmer's version... Why didn't she search some unemployed people and ask if they are available for those Jobs? Why didn't try to hear some labour union version? Who knows how many unemployed parents with childrens are more than happy to wake up at 4 am in order to sustain their families...

[@hugh261]

What's a little inflation anyways? Double the pay and inflate food prices. Simple. We've been exploiting cheap labor to keep lower food prices. MAGA will fix this.

[@paulwblair]

@@hugh261 No it doesn't. For double the pay to double food prices labor would have to make up 100% of a farm's overhead. It makes up only as small fraction of that.

[@elguanche1]

Figures are that they make $10-$12 / hour.

[@taxbanker3044]

exactly he just said he pays a lot. There are no workers at the price he is paying. When I was in college people used to go to Alaska to work on fishing boats which was horribly hard and dangerous work--why did they go--the high pay. Give me an F'ing break. It is all about getting hard workers on the cheap so that they can have good profits and we can have cheap food.

[@tonisumblin2719]

Consider that most of the people who work these jobs in California are immigrants, and most do not speak English. These people are very hard workers. They’ve been working in our agricultural industries for almost one hundred years. Because of them California is top greatest economy in the world. They’ve built their own communities around their work. Which is normal. But because of language and cultural difference most of us were not usually hired. And the tradition has persist. If they mass deport these people the USA will suffer economically and prices will soar. It will be devastating. Farms will no doubt suffer the most.

[@LigmaNutz-u7c]

Doesnt matter illegal immigration drives down wages for everyone. They use this one example but not all the ones in restaurant auto shops retail janitorial. They drive down wages and cause employers to treat u like shit

[@rockon8174]

No. They won't. Farm workers have to have work permits. Farms that hire undocumented tend to abuse those workers and underpay them.

[@JR-xj2vr]

CA is the 5th largest economy in the WORLD. The CA economy is stronger than 90% of all countries on earth. Thank you to all of those immigrants who work their asses off. All they want is a safe place to live and earn enough to take care of their families. They know they are on the radar. They know if they F up, they could be deported. They contribute 10’s of billions of dollars in federal taxes, SS contributions, etc, etc. CA can give the middle finger to the rest of the country, and be perfectly fine economically.

[@kerwinbrown4180]

An immigrant does not violate the law to enter the USA. Instead a criminal does.

[@sailorman92704]

​@@kerwinbrown4180And businesses are exploiting immigrants for their cheap labor paying dirt wages and under the table.... breaking the law

[@rufusbayne2230]

I grew up in the South at a time when small farms were the norm. Kids out of school for the summer did the harvesting back then. Those small family farms are gone now and young people in the community won't set foot in a field. The work is too hard, too dirty and they feel that it's beneath them. You may get your jollies by deporting migrant workers but it will come back and bite you in the ass later.

[@wendwllhickey6426]

I would rather have then around that a bunch of entitled white stuck up people

[@KittyS-gg5gd]

And they don't allow breaks for a freaking drink in high temperatures in Florida

[@janicehenning4505]

Or Texas now!

[@bluebandites]

THxs to MAGA

[@bluebandites]

@@janicehenning4505 yep thxs to magets

[@jlorde8838]

​@bluebandites it's because of the illegal aliens, not Trump supporters.

[@jlorde8838]

​🎉

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

The U.S really gonna shoot itself on the foot with this one. 😂

[@truther001]

LOL

[@sunnykobe3210]

“But I hate these people, NOWWW” 😂 It capricious folks who favor these xenophobic doings. We, as a society, would be a lot better off if we honored the people who feed us. That food doesn’t magically appear at your house, you know.

[@blairdanies8387]

Is everyone ready for a food shortage. It's coming. Especially fresh food. I hope you like canned and box food.

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

@@blairdanies8387 Well, this is what Trump voters want. Everyone knows that they're the most spoiled and important people on earth. Only their opinion matters and everyone else just has to live with it. What can you do about it? 🤷

[@XYZ-bi9eb]

you got that right!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@RolandesqDIY]

Freeze unemployment and welfare benefits for all registered republicans in these areas where positions are available. The country voted against ‘socialist policies’ so why should they get paid to sit home when jobs will be available when the migrants are sent home? If you choose not to work, why is that my problem? There, problem solved. You’re welcome.🙄

[@ervinstewart8222]

Nice one

[@1vagabundo962]

I agree 💯

[@jamesgregory3638]

Why just Republicans? Most of the people I know sitting on their ass collecting taxpayer money are democrats, at least after you count the illegals. Freeze unemployment and welfare for all

[@BOBMAN1980]

How about freeze unemployment and welfare benefits for everyone, regardless of political party.

[@themonsterwithin4000]

@@BOBMAN1980 No, republicans are the ones complaining about “handouts”, right? Let them figure it out.

[@naruto73syfy]

How many times have you heard many other farmers say the same thing. But folks don’t get how vital these people are to Americas food supply

[@tony1919]

We still have to give them free insurance and food assistance because farmers don't pay enough so who is benefiting here really.Look at the whole picture.

[@DaveonGrave]

The reporter didn't ask the farmers who they voted for 🤔

[@DouradaBambina]

Central CA is red historically

[@coffeyvideoproductions7767]

A reporter needs to be at least a little confrontational, otherwise you’re just a PR marketing agent.

[@miguelnicasio4171]

A lot American s dont understand this is not a summer job is hard labor so dont complain.

[@joeylee9809]

But they are, these are the same people who voted Trump to be our President and he did say he was going to deport all those undocumented migrants, we are talking millions, and so what happens when you start deporting those people, who will replace them, not us, it is beneath our dignity to do those manual jobs, like working in those fields, scrubbing toilets, working in restaurants, construction, anything that involves working in the hot sun is just not for them, unless you have a job in a air condition office paying over $ 50.00 an hour forget it, they would rather be unemployed, collecting food stamps and Government Assistance

[@Jilla0559]

Them MAGA boys should get off the couch and work

[@jamescampbell4751]

These comments expose people who have never done hard work in their lives.

[@punkinhoot]

😂 You mean chose a life in boxes because they are afraid the sun wil age their faces? No worries. Is bum getting sun while bent over picking crops. 😂😂

[@misterguts]

When Trump ate the dogs and cats, no one batted an eye. When Harris was late granting an interview, everybody lost their mind.

[@beckyshell4649]

He is a convicted felon, talks about utter nonsense and makes up facts and lies. Harris laughs ‘funny’.

[@rickoom3081]

Sniff...(huh huh)..sniff..aaahhhhhhhahahahaha!!

[@markvalparaiso1690]

​@@rickoom3081YOU Trump's criminal smelly behind

[@Jilla0559]

Corporate Media waited to explain Tariffs until after the elections and they Failed to tell Stories like this ! As well as having a Double Standard on Harris that Started when She Came to Washington

[@gonzalezz-r2z]

Trump people said they want the job backs see them in January getting things ready for the season in the fields

[@loktom4068]

Those same cry babies are the real MAXICAN'TS of slackers America.

[@mtrlogisticsllc8806]

There was a bipartisan piece of legislation to address the border but trump shut it down. Talk about that too.

[@richpomanFU]

When and how much BS was attached to it. What was the name of this proposed legislation? Do you even know? Or are you NPC in Regurgitron mode.

[@susien7323]

@@richpomanFU. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5q2l5mberWFeZIsi=jJB1RGzsDK4ravOw

[@jaimereynoso7688]

@@richpomanFU BS.Dump told all his MAGA MORONS to Vote against the bill.

[@carolhayden4971]

@@richpomanFU, Do you know? No there wasn’t the usual attached. It was a straight up most comprehensive ever Immigration legislation ever put together with Bi Partisan work . Now you take a damned seat.

[@flyingsnake3737]

@@richpomanFUa Republican wrote that bill. Ask him what he attached to it.

[@madman53507]

I work in agriculture. Machinery does most of the work now.

[@inharmonywithearth9982]

Truth be told!

[@Tmithy_White]

MAGA offered to do the job at the same time rate.

[@patrickporter1864]

When somebody says they pay one of the highest rates per hour but never mentions what it is. They do not pay a high enough rate.

[@williamgleaton2992]

I'll tell you why ,I live in a farming area called Plant City Fla and I've watched for decades the pickers out there at sunrise until they couldn't see due to darkness bent over the whole time picking . They are the hardest workers I've even seen. And to ever believe whites will due what they do , just will never happen.

[@Carolyn-wr9vy]

Yes you are totally right. We spent many winters camping in the Plant City area. We saw firsthand the long hours these pickers work. They pick everything we buy in the stores and where they are staying are nothing more then shed type buildings set in the middle of the fields. Most don't have access to food, running water or sanitary things.

[@brooklyn0992]

@@Carolyn-wr9vyyes so they shit in the fields and cause e-coli. The hey also use the farmers field to grow marijuana. We also don’t beds millions of people to pick fruits that is bullshit and you can get a work visa to come here. Ask me how I know?

[@Samy-c8o]

Mean while USA 🇺🇸 farmers are crying and going to down 👇 GRADE. No more farmers subsidies. SAVE AMERICANS TAX.MONEY

[@USA_Made]

The illegal immigrants are not the problem. The problem is businesses that hire them illegally. Drugs are not the problem. The problem is the users that buy them. Illegal immigrants come to the USA because businesses hire them without consequences. Drugs come through the border because Americans consume drugs.

[@valevisa8429]

You try and pick up the vegetables and fruits with legal Americans.See what happens with the prices.

[@jammin1984]

Tell us more of your stories of your life and Ancestors. Please Do?!

[@jammin1984]

​@@valevisa8429Yes indeed on that one!

[@Slick70]

@@valevisa8429 I don’t care what happens to the price. Americans will work if the price is right. I worked in the water department of a major city and we had white people doing dirty sewer work because the PRICE WAS RIGHT! So don’t tell me it won’t work. Pay it and they will come.

[@cornezane]

So true!!!

[@Bunnylandu]

They work harder than most Americans! Let them stay!

[@JamesFinborg-g6j]

yes they do and most very good people who just want to work.

[@creolenola]

You know their plan is to put prisoners in these jobs.

[@buckeyedav1]

And they should.. maybe they'll rethink a life of crime and repeat offenders if they know what they will face coming back to prison. Remember the movie "O Brother Where Art Thou"? where they were shackled together working? Bring it back. Anna In Ohio

[@yourresidentialhomegirl6577]

Their covert plan is that they are going to criminalize Black people again to a ridiculously high degree and take any chance to throw us in the prisons to then work in the fields for free (Slavery). They say they are not racists but its in their nature to exploit people for their own benefit and try to disguise it as " pleasing to God".

[@vanlepthien6768]

And farm yields will drop by over 50% if they do.

[@nineseven420empire3]

Sounds like a job for slaves............

[@fritzpierre6322]

Big lies, a lot of us citizens will be happy to do it for $26 hr

[@inharmonywithearth9982]

Yes it's propaganda and these mindless sheep are buying it. These illegals are taking the really good factory and luxury jobs too. The government that made this news report actually gives these employers tax refunds if they hire them. They even pay for charter busses to haul them. They take all the jobs not just the farm jobs. America is full of unemployed homeless people the government makes it expensive and difficult to hire especially with the employee health care tax. It's all set up to flood the country with invaders and ruin the economy with inflation and crime and latin american gangs

[@heatherh3457]

Do people realize the strength, stamina and endurance it takes to work as agricultural labor and the pay is never 'high'. Farms pay agencies to find laborers and these agencies take off a huge percentage of the hourly rates paid leaving the laborer only survival rates.

[@berinmind]

You are soft.

[@b.l.8611]

You VOTED for TRUMP……NOT SORRY Farmer. You knew that Trump was going to screw you and your workers. WTF were you thinking. We billionaires (like Elon and Trump) have a lot of money, and can give a shit if my eggs, fruits or vegetables are triple the price!

[@anncata7368]

Exactly

[@jdos5643]

Now we all pay the price because of right wing incompetence

[@olgivyclan1584]

Only someone who has never worked the field would ask that question.

[@jeffreyjackson5229]

Picking crops is how I earned money to buy my school clothes until I got old enough to work a job, like McDonald's. I wouldn't want to do it now but would to survive and maintain myself.

[@NinetyFiveBravo1775]

You're a shoe in already with the experience under your belt......what are you waiting for, apply.....you can start out as a team leader and work your way up from there. America is saved.....

[@noegarza-medina3083]

@@NinetyFiveBravo1775 not even close to what he said, but it's the youtube comment section. can't really expect most comments to make a whole lot of sense

[@raylopez3833]

@@noegarza-medina3083the first guy said picking crops does not pay enough to be a real job for Americans even macdonals pay more. The second guy said. You know how to apply yourself and work hard. Why don’t you try to became a leader for the place where you work. Third guy, just being a KZbin commentator who makes no sense.

[@noegarza-medina3083]

@@raylopez3833 nope, sry bud but you misunderstood too, first guy said he'll do what he has to do no matter how tought it gets because hes been there before.... second guy was being sarcastic pointing out that since he has so much experience in that field why not make that his main occupation, which goes against what the first guy said (if it comes down to it, i'll do it to survive) i pointed out how the second guy to comment didnt really read what the first guy said now you need to work on ur reading & comprehensions skills lol have a good one guy :)

[@NinetyFiveBravo1775]

@noegarza-medina3083 look tough guy, the comment stated he used to pick crops to buy school clothes. That's good.....but it's equal to being the "paperboy" which is a stepping stone job that a youngster would get for "pocket money" or save to buy "school clothes" in his case. How long does the paperboy remain a paperboy? Or picking crops in this case. He picked crops until McDonald's came along which means he moved on to something better than picking crops.....so what I'm saying to both of you is, if picking crops is the opportune job before McDonald's why aren't more Americans in the field........exactly......so we need dedicated crop pickers like yourself to make up the difference after the mass deportation. You're desperately wanting to be that "13th man" that would disagree with the other 12 men that you don't understand what the convo is.

[@theresahoffman7444]

I've picked grapes and onions and it is the hardest work anyone can do. This will increase the cost of groceries so thanks MAGA, just what we all needed.

[@susien7323]

Minimum wage is $15 an hour in California and who do you think is going to absorb that cost??? 😂

[@ryuuguu01]

It is not fair that slave labour is unavailable.

[@vickicrawford1263]

@@ryuuguu01it'll never happen again. You pick it

[@robertchilders8698]

​@ryuuguu01 They should make convicts work in the fields for shorter jail time! Remember the old road gangs? Many companies don't pay illegals minimum wages! All peicemmil work. So slow worker gets practically nothing! On thing that happens, is the imported workers , who outnumber a native worker, will steak that person blind! Example, they will still you blind, while you are hard at work, by taking your fruit from your boxes , when your not looking! On piecemeal, it can be devastating! So if you are an outsider, you are crewed! Especially if you don't speak Spanish!

[@susien7323]

@ with the cost of deportation that no one will put a number to, I’m sure they will look at the detainment “camps” and want free labor for the food and housing costs. A concentration of immigrants in camps (like what we did to the Japanese Americans during WWII. (After Pearl Harbor attack “. Yep concentration camps will quite possibly be build and just like Auschwitz in Poland “work will set you free”

[@wilkersteacher3]

Trump thinks that those are Black jobs…. FAFO not!!

[@woody3307]

All my neighbors In rural Louisiana were former "share croppers" who got beat up or worse when they tried to register to vote. Their kids mostly all moved to the big cities. I wonder why? Picking cotton with fire ants stinging you is inhuman suffering. Thank goodness for the combine, but some crops have to be harvested by hand!

[@oasean]

No, the "black jobs" are, for instance, at an Amazon warehouse, where so many workers cannot even speak English that they need to hire specific managers who speak their language.

[@WeAreNotGoingBackEver]

Exactly!

[@isaiasatitegustaelwinnie666]

😂

[@Shng275]

Exactly. He said "migrants" are taking "Black jobs". The average migrant is doing farm work, factory work, or some other manual labor.🤦🏿‍♂️

[@donaldoutterson3071]

I've worked picking apples, framing crew on construction, general construction on adobe houses. It is respectable honorable work. It inspired me to study harder and get better white collar jobs that paid more. I will never go with out money while I am able bodied and I am not too proud to work. Make the boss earn your business!

[@Peche01]

Lots of job vacancies for the MAGA’s cult😜😜

[@jamiestarr4941]

Sounds like a good black job Project 25 working the fields 😉

[@emilyfeagin2673]

I want to see them show up and work. I’ll be waiting a long time

[@YoshiYosheda]

Alot of them don't care they'd rather be on welfare and living in a trailer park with their cousin who they knocked up

[@bobbyvalentino9946]

@@emilyfeagin2673 I bet you want even show up!😮

[@StuartLedman]

Are you kidding? You should see the obese magats in Wisconsin. Their fat asses wouldn't be able to bend over let alone get back up.

[@willieverusethis]

If the work is that hard, hot, and dangerous, the breaks should be longer, there should be shade provided, and there should be benefits and high pay. Those undocumented farm workers are being exploited.

[@cybertoe1221]

Food prices will still skyrocket under those conditions.

[@ternesiajackson7277]

What about the labor laws that are supposed to protect workers?

[@deej7124]

Idea...since he wanted to play McDonald's worker go pick fruit all day start time 4am and maga applicants get first dibs on which fruits and vegetables they pick all day.

[@thomas1879]

Hot sun beating down in 80% humidity. Flies and mosquitoes biting all day. Shacks with no power or running water. Typical migrant environment in Ohio, Michigan, etc.

[@Cwgrlup]

50 percent of fruit for the country? Americans will get to experience scurvy.

[@analienfromouterspace]

Good, all on diet, fewer land whales 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡

[@Jilla0559]

True Story - My Father Got Scurvy in WW2/ - He was stationed in Adack , Alaska No Fruit of Fresh Vegetables were in The C- Rations

[@nightwalkerscrypt]

When your food prices go up due to tariffs and you can't find the produce you need for dinner, when your children start going to bed with no food to eat thank Trump

[@bonnitaclaus2286]

One of the most important aspects of this type of farming is professional, knowledgeable workers. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you could kill the watermelon plant and no more watermelons. Plus there’s a way of handling them that is also necessary to know. When you throw a watermelon into a catcher, the catcher has to stack the watermelon. If the watermelon is stacked incorrectly, it’ll crush the melons beneath. Therefore, he needs to be a skilled individual on knowing exactly how to turn and place the watermelon so that you can stack them high. How do I know that? I was brought up in the family where, by example, you worked hard, and you did what you needed to do. There was a very low point when I was homeless. I also have agricultural background, by always having a vegetable garden, and a grandmother who was a horticulturist. I did this type of work alongside Margaret workers. Who gave us a job, expecting that we’d be gone by the end of the day. We were not, we worked through the rain, the heat, the bugs, the rats, the snakes, the thorns, and all the other delightful conditions of doing agricultural Margarett work. All his life from the time he was a child he was a farmer, and his father was a farmer, we were the first….. the very first, white Americans that have been hired and stayed, plus we knew how to handle the tools and the product properly……. Think about that! In somewhere between 50 and 100 years, my husband and I were the first…. 1st to do the work, not complain, not kill the plants, and actually do the work. LISTEN TO THESE MEN. THEY’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. DO YOU THINK I WOULD STAY DOING THAT WORK ONCE WE HAD ENOUGH MONEY WHERE WE COULD GET MORE SETTLED AND MOVE ON. YOU’D BE CRAZY. I CAN DO IT, I DID IT, BECAUSE I HAVE AN EXCEPTIONAL BACKBONE. I DIDN’T KNOW IT AT THE TIME, BUT I’VE LEARNED SINCE. I’M 77 YEARS OLD. I BET I COULD DO IT NOW IF I HAD TO. THE PAIN WOULD BE HORRIFIC. BUT I KNOW THE CONDITIONS, I KNOW THE SUFFERING OF EVERY DAY OF BEING OUT IN THOSE FIELDS. IT IS NO WALK IN THE PARK.

[@b.r.c9156]

Now MAGAs have to get their a$$s up 😂😂😂

[@oralmorris-sr2ly]

The farmers vote Republican

[@NEKingdom241]

They love their subsidy checks

[@DarksideDave42]

Force of habit, like lots of other people ...

[@reginafisher9919]

That's stupid

[@iwritechecksatthegrocerystore]

Yea they did. I live here and they have huge Trump signs all over their farms. Fuck em. They brought it on themselves. I’ll just grow my own damn vegetables. 😂😂

[@cindifischer6919]

​@@NEKingdom241there are a lot of government programs that I don't agree with but if you guify, people go for it so if a farmer guifies, they can go for it, it is legal.

[@connor_flanigan]

"even if we paid $26 an hour." how much is the pay? $20/hr? you need to make at least $35 an hour in the USA just to be able to live in poverty and not starve to death.

[@XimenaDaniel1307]

If you live in California it isn’t enough for surviver

[@BuzzbeeDC]

I bet everyone of the head farmers voted for dUMP.

[@jdos5643]

Without even thinking of the consequences sadly.

[@vladimirofsvalbard9477]

@@jdos5643 If people really are considering the consequences, then why doesn't anyone address immigration, wage laws, or the value of citizenship? Why not create a program for people that desperately want to work those jobs and stop leaving it to a random draw of border crossings? Seems more like an intentional lack of enforcement of the law simply for a national 'gotcha' moment.

[@kathyw4811]

@@vladimirofsvalbard9477 Republicans want chaos, not solutions. Otherwise, they won't be able to get elected.

[@AlejandraNavarro-v6w]

The most important thing that should be on everyone mind currently should be to invest in different sources of income that doesn't depend on the government. Especially with the current economic crisis

[@AradhanaBhola]

How Wealthy Individuals Stay Ahead: They Trade Their Money and Grow Wealth Instead of Waiting for Government Intervention"

[@PierreGianordoli]

How Wealthy Individuals Stay Ahead: They Trade Their Money and Grow Wealth Instead of Waiting for Government Intervention"

[@karanbhalerao-vl1yl]

How Wealthy Individuals Stay Ahead: They Trade Their Money and Grow Wealth Instead of Waiting for Government Intervention"

[@ChristianCruz-y5f]

Thank goodness you brought this up! Truly, investing has changed my perspective on how one can succeed in life; working multiple jobs isn't the optimal way to attain financial freedom and unfortunately, we discover this later in life. Currently earn as much as 10 grand weekly and this has improved my financial life. Great piece!

[@Tintintanabulation]

Wonder how many of those farmers voted Trump?

[@kevinwinters5426]

At least 99% of them

[@reginafisher9919]

​@@kevinwinters5426why?! Why are they stupid!!

[@fredyaguilar7716]

Lets see how many Americans are going to sign up 😂😂

[@racheljustrachel2732]

Oh please you think they are only farmers but you know as well as we do you guys do and take jobs like assembly, manufacturing, school aids, teachers etc. And then you guys jump the fence wanting citizenship. We pay 196 billion dollars a year not including state taxes while illegals put in less than 25 billion a year. Now even in LA those who works in hotels illegals etc want their pay to raise 20.00 bull. Some are paid under the table.

[@racheljustrachel2732]

Oh please not all are farmers and you know it some are hotel workers, restaurant, manufacturers, assembly, teachers aides, etc. Yeah your taking our jobs come here illegally and demand citizenship. While others pay to get here legally. We pay 198 billion a year of federal tax not to mention state tax. And the illegals pay in less than 22 billion a year. Some are paid under the table. Open food stalls without license. Etc. Plus since biden 21 million illegals came in. You think we are stupid. Im glad they are ending birth right citizenship.

[@worldlife9834]

They wont sign up. They aren't stupid. You need to pay a living wage. Farmers are good at exploitation and human right violations.

[@ralphquintero3350]

That'll be the day 😅!

[@Freeworld856]

Do you really think the new migrants are willing to work in the field, they’d rather go back to their country. 😂 Why would they be willing to work out in the sun all day for little money when they qualify for government assistance, something these migrants don’t qualify for. Just go to a migrant shelter and see how many sign up or how many work more than a few days.

[@erickagalvan7925]

Honestly, even if you paid me 40 an hour, I wouldn't do it. I went with my aunt on a weekend to pick walnuts from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. The sun makes your day horrible, your skin is damaged and when I got home my back was burning. It was a horrible experience. God bless all those workers.

[@crystal2970]

Did you put on sunscreen first?

[@penitent2401]

a combine harvester driver can make $30-40 per hour, you'd be sitting on leather seats in air conditioned cabs, guided by GPS, AIs, etc. in a million dollar machine. You only need a few drivers for an entire farm. But somehow fruit picking still relies on teams of low paid illegal immigrants doing it by hand.

[@bjornjoseph]

​@@penitent2401Cost vs roi. We chose to live in a capitalist country

[@mjlh7079]

If it could be automated, it would already be automated & several have tried. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on your perspective, some crops like grapes are too delicate/too easily damaged to be picked by a machine - ergo the need to do iy by hand.

[@penitent2401]

@@bjornjoseph back when there was slave states, cotton farms worked by slaves strongly held out against industrialisation with machines to pick cotton compared to free states. innovations and technological breakthroughs to create mechanical harvesters was greatly spurred on by abolition movements. Cost vs ROI often only look at current situation and technology, there needs to be a drive to invest in development of new technologies to change the game. The problem won't go away on its own otherwise.

[@MrMondayMornings]

Farmers use machinery to harvest most of the crops in California (almonds, prunes, walnuts, and some peaches..etc). Allow middle school and high school students kids get summer jobs working in the fields to earn some extra money for school. Govt should allow this more. I did it even though it paid minimum wage.

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

adults supporting familiies need to work before teenagers

[@newjerseylion4804]

Will trump deport elon musk for working illegal in a student visa

[@TheWorst_time]

You literally contradicted yourself. Student Visa.

[@VictorSamaniego-z6i]

In my country I have money, and crops, no more U.S pendjs

[@itachi-hf3kv]

Because is a fucken HARD WORK!! That's why

[@BettyBlack99]

@@itachi-hf3kv yeah & only Mexicans work hard. That’s why they came here & had nothing 🙄

[@USA1-g9i]

Democrats call McDonald's hard work

[@tbessy1963]

​@@USA1-g9ithen go take that job mister republican. More on.

[@USA1-g9i]

@tbessy1963 I'm good where I'm at more on.

[@BethSamuel-n4c]

Not only is it HARD work, it is skilled labor.