ICE raids are leaving fields full of rotting food in California. Even the documented workers are not showing up. And guess what? You’ll still want your strawberries then you’ll pay more for imported ones. This isn’t border security. It’s cruel economic sabotage, dressed up as patriotism.
The sooner the shelves empty the sooner the dumb Americans amongst you will understand they were duped.
Alabama did this before the old Ivey took office and we lost a lot of farm's and crops, I say send Washington to work the fields and pay them what the one's they look down on make
Racism is expensive. Fix your hearts, or die.
This serves Trump's cruel agenda in two major ways. It attacks California's economy and it terrorizes brown people.
If states are to rule themselves and each make their own laws, we need to make laws that ban ICE.
As if lololol
FAFO about to seriously impact us all, not just the foolish MAGATs that voted this shit in.
Imported from where? No one wants to trade with the US anymore.
This is a straight up attack on California by Turnip, because he hates Gavin Newsome, his youth and his good looks. Turnip is old, fat and ugly with bad hair and no prospects other than prison.
This is part of a concerted push to punish California for being blue, with the 4th largest global economy, and a deep distaste for everything Stephen Miller.
Absolutely correct, I am sure.
But it's what Putin wants - so MAGA stepped up.
Self destruction of the US in full swing.
The USA is ruled by a Morontocracy...
Strange how local US GOP voters aren't kicking down the farmers’ doors demanding to do the back-breaking work, in scorching conditions at bottom-dollar rates of pay. Beats me. 🤷♂️
Prices are increasing w/o a doubt in real time!
I fully support the immigrants, documented or not, abandoning the agricultural fields and meat packing plants across the country. I am tired of the farmers and the corporate food industry supporting Republicans on the backs of those at wanting a better life. Hire MAGA or shut down - I don’t care.
Killing us softly? NO it's DAILY. TRUMP will see us all die in CALI because we didn't VOTE for him. What country is this again? FOURTH REICH RISING?
No food for YOU, America.
Do Republicans eat? I guess they forgot.
Thoughts&prayers.
It’s not just strawberries - they’re going to ruin the economy of many states that depend on them- but there will be food shortages and bankrupt farmers
In driving through California farm country in recent years, there would be a constant stream of roadside billboards put up by the farm owners extolling Trump and denouncing Lib taxation. They got what they deserved but we pay the price, too. As usual.
This is a wild thought - but can we organize five day camps for people to come and help. Use their vacation time or even have college kid on summer break help? (I know we will all suck at the job, but it’s something and real public service is necessary now)
Imported from where? No one is going to trade with us.
I hear watermelons are rotting in Nebraska. How are things in Rocky Ford Colorado?
Farms in the Midwest are at risk too. Food prices will triple. A lot of hungry people standing in lines at their local food banks. So, sad.
and the world is already short of food... with 2.8 BILLION people food insecure and nearly 1 Billion have daily hunger.. bsky.app/profile/ogre...
God damn - Trump is going to make me have to defend CA farm dynasties?
Don't worry, after Tom Homan and Opus Dei destroys the US economy, The Pope and his Bishops will come to the rescue to save us, (and boost church membership), while not saying a word about the Opus Dei gang bosses at the Vatican who caused the problem.
And then idiot trump will add tariffs on top of the cost. So much for helping the working people.
can't the owners of the farms get immigrant workers legally under the same law Trump uses? either way we are gonna pay more for our food and we let the farmers get away with it.
Where’s all those patriots screaming that illegals are stealing all the social benefits. Get out there & earn $5/bushel on a 12 hour shift
Today we mourn the death of our country, America!
It is ethnic cleansing for KKKristofascism.
Maybe Trump should go pick the crops since he’s so totally fit and healthy! 🤣🤣
Until all is in ruins, people are broke, sick, and starving, nothing will change. We had several years of warning signs and ignored all of them. Now we get to witness the demise of theU.S. and the rise of Trumpistan.
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Remember to thank your nearest maggat !!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
He wants to destroy the California economy.
Exactly
"In FY 2022, 26.1% of Florida's government revenue came from federal transfers." California is a big donor state. Another reason he hates CA....
I think those Farm owners should file a lawsuits against Ice!!! Definitely , fight fire with fire!!! Big time suits if they know how to play the game. Get the best immigration lawyers . It’s definitely worth it ,they got their workers back, money for the lost profits and make lawyers happy too.
This happened in Georgia a few years back . They rounded up all the "illegals" & crops rotted in the fields . No natives would take those jobs . Wrecked the farm economy. Farmers were furious. They quietly dropped that the next year .
the focus of ICE raids on Blue States is targeted. You don't see them doing these military level raids in Florida, Missouri, Nebraska, do you.
OK so now that all the job stealing Mexicans are gone we are going to see a lot of MAGA Republicans on the fields picking fruit, right?
lmao, I would love to see the pasty skind out in the fields and orchards. 🍤
Because Trump wants to deport anyone of color!! And he doesn’t care about due process. The Supreme Court gave him permission for that!
🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬
They are setting the stage for a massive land grab.
Racism will cost ‘ya! Don’t say you were not warned either. This is about Europe but the arguments are identical for the US. www.jandehn.com/post/your-ra...
Purposely went after California and NY farms first. Leaving giant agri-businesses in red states alone
"nope i want immigrants to take this highly desirable job so i can complain about it while i collect foodstamps, and can't afford to fix my teeth maga?"
Trump wants his big bill passed on July 4th to make it symbolic to America, it hurts too many for it to be symbolic!
I think the subsidized farms in red states grow to export. It is California and Arizona that supply a lot of the produce for this country.
What will you eat in winter? And what will your family eat? Your chlidren? Your parents? You may easily say good bye to strawberries, but what’s abpout potatoes?
What happened to the millions of MAGA Patriots complaining about the jobs brown people took from them? Get to work you MAGA Patriots.
They're going to use the people rounded up in the concentration camps for free labor.
Yep that’s their plan. Use the kids, and the incarcerated. All the immigrants they round up and put in concentration/death camps will work for their tent and food.
Kidnap them from the jobs they used to earn a living and then put them back in the same jobs to work for free.
People could do reverse raids then and set them free
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Has anyone analyzed if they're hitting all states equality?
Equality or equally?
Thank you! Equally, I'm wondering if they're targeting certain states more than others in terms of number of people taken, or number of raids, in order to intimidate workers and negatively affect certain cities or states.
They are 100% targeting blue states and blue cities in red states.
It would be good if the news media presented it that way.
They want to destroy the California economy because a liberal state having the fourth largest economy in the world is an affront to conservatism. If conservative policies are right, then California’s continued economic success cannot happen.
Punishment for California being a success.
California also needs to make sure their state has the first availability for all items like produce. No shipments to other states until all state orders filled. Red states need to feel the weight of their votes.
Where's all them white folks at who said immigrants have been stealing their jobs?! Go on...there's your jobs. Go get them!
One of my friends in Washington said this might be the last year for cheap apples which are already 30-40% higher than pre-covid.
I moved away. :( But I glean for charity where I live now. I'm not shy about leaving notes in mailboxes of fruit tree owners. I'm going to start to pick for my neighbors and self.
Economic catastrophe.
Box of cereal was 8 dollars at the store. Here comes the financial pain that routes all of you right into working for ICE enforcement. It was nice having you here, see you on the other side.
What an immoral waste on all fronts.
PatriROTism
He’s deliberately destroying the economy to transform this place into a kingdom of royals and peasants. All these Red Hats still haven’t discovered they’re not in the club.
Sadly we’ll all be harvesting the rotten fruit of this administration’s policies for years to come.
taco hates my state so much he wants our economy to tank! FUCK HIM
And we contribute more to the U.S. economy than any other!
We shouldn’t anymore!!
Time for everyone to walk off the job until our services and civil rights are restored.
We need to be 26 million or more on Friday. We cannot lose momentum. They didn't seem to hear us at 13 million. Please Americans, Make A Protest Your Patriotic Duty. youtu.be/WcGQy6Vt6hY?...
America as we know it is screwed.
Don’t t worry, couch fucker will steal farm land (his company AcreTrader) and sell it to China and Russia. The Golden Age for him and dump
Then the MAGAts will blame Newsome for not picking the berries himself. They'll scream, They'll point & bawl! No worries! The Dems will pile on & yell: "Do nothing Democrats"! & on it will go as we crash & burn. UNITE & overthrow the oligarchy! Vive La Resistance! WE are our only hope!
"This isn’t border security. It’s cruel economic sabotage, dressed up as patriotism." BINGO! you NAILED it.. Cruelty intentionally directed at California,Newsom by extension EVERY person who buys groceries at the market & not have their food flown in exclusively and chef prepared aka the wealthy
He's not just destroying our democracy. He's destroying every aspect of our daily lives.
Beyond devastating.
Choose bigotry, starve.
Oxnard strawberries are the best... and rotting in the fields. This is criminal, not the hard-working individuals who pick them.
It's outrageous
Fuck these Nazis. D-Day is coming.
This is another fine mess that Trump has created for Trump to solve.
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Trump has found a way to vent his retribution on California
This 👆
Which means your economic catastrophe will be felt through increased demand on global food supplies. So your prices go up and ours do too. "Great." You dumb, dumb fucks.
MAGA get out there and pick your food
Purposely hurting the California economy. They could chase farm workers in red states, but they don’t.
The Trump administration says the Constitution has never allowed for birthright citizenship. That means ~80 million American citizens could become “illegals” overnight. Meanwhile … they are about to pass a budget that will make #ICE the 8th largest military in the world (by spending). #MAGA
Absolutely. Connect the dots - it's not hard. Next step is forced prison labor to work the farms.
"That means ~80 million American citizens could become “illegals” overnight". That includes all of Trump's children!
It really depends how they redefine the laws. Some countries follow the mother’s citizenship. Some the fathers. And some allow citizenship if either parent is a citizen.
Met a 30-yo guy who’s been in the US since he was 3 yo, bright guy, ‘former DACA’. His younger sister born here, a nurse, speaks only English. They are Americans despite paperwork, or MAGA desire to expel them, talented hard-working individuals who make our country stronger. White supremacists suck.
But the only ones they will target will be POC.
80 million is bigger than *every army in the world combined* and we've got plenty of guns.
So why do you think they built Andersonville, Florida? So handy, doncha know?
A lot of those being arrested are the documented immigrants.
But most of the farmers voted for this
The berry industry is alive and well here in British Columbia Canada! You haven’t tasted a great blueberry until you’ve tried a BC blueberry! 🇨🇦 #BritishColumba #Canada #elbowsup
Pretty soon they’re going to have concentration camp residents doing the work for free. We’re going to be running a slave labor system again.
ICE isn’t discriminating between documented and undocumented. Food shortages and hyperinflation incoming
How far away are we from farmers showing up at alligator Alcatraz to bid for “workers” that are indentured?
Wake up farmers - the Trump regime doesn’t give two craps about you!! He’s sitting at his high price resorts eating imported food and he couldn’t care less about what happens to you!
This is intentional. Trump is going to try to take the land when they go bankrupt to sell to MAGA corporate farms.
VOTE Every one of the M***F****ERs OUT!!!!!!!!
And hawks with deep pockets are patiently waiting to swoop down and buy every fallow field and harvester. Then bring in their armies of migrant labor and drones - becoming the new overlords of agriculture, sole providers of sustenance for the new Republic. #RepublicOfAmerica #Resist
we'll be increasing the economic prosperity of other countries so we can eat
Midwest Maga types don’t eat strawberries.
Where are all the racists that complained about “illegals” taking their jobs? Wake your dumb maga asses up and go harvest some crops for shit pay.
I’ve been buying California strawberries every chance I get so I can remember what they taste like after they are gone. Oh, also, Fuck Trump.
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A Dumb fuck & extreme jackass says…
Meanwhile the owners are crushed economically and Vance picks up acreage.
“Economic sabotage”
Just noted elsewhere, need to understand what Miller, Theil, and their buddies in the Prison Industrial Complex want as the solution to the problem they’ve created with their cruelty (hint, it’s more cruelty).
💯. Prison labor to replace immigrant labor. Sweet deal
At least they don’t have to use anyone’s preferred pronouns anymore. 🙄
Where is the "they're taking our jobs" crowd now???
California MAGA will blame our Governor.
This Administration is full of racist idiots! I really appreciate our immigrants, legal or not!
So high time California stops paying fed tax, and support those who are hurt with that money.
Honestly, more unscrupulous, underhanded ways to make life harder for most Americans.
How’s maga amerika liking this, those rising prices for imported Mexican produce…….?
So this on top of the bill that will screw middle and low great
He's repaying California because they sing a different tune and won't bow to him. That's what it is. This is as un-American as it gets. But, then, he's the worst of us.
California feeds the rest of the country — he’s screwing everyone
He doesn’t care he doesn’t care about anything except himself. He has more money than he could ever spend in his entire lifetime yet he wants more. I wish the cholesterol gods would catch up.
He doesn't care. He'll have food.
Good chemicals made by McDonald’s
Whatever it is that he eats, he will never be short of it.
Yeah, the rich folks don’t care if lettuce is $10, it’s relatively pennies to them
Exactly.
I read “bow” as blow, sorry..I do think we’re talking about the same thing.
What ICE and Homeland Security are doing isn't any sort of reasonable immigration policy. It isn't pursuing the "worst of the worst." It's ethnic cleansing.
Ice, aka bounty hunters, grab anyone & everyone brown & leave it to be sorted out later while throwing them in a concentration camp. How much money are these concentration camps bringing in per human??? The nazis are getting richer off of the suffering of others. It didn't have to be this way.
It still doesn’t have to be this way. Vote Blue!
It's cute that you think your votes will actually be counted in the future.
Hope on, hope ever.
Phony patriotism
They’ll probably make prisoners farm. Slave labor. This is awful.
Trump’s mother said Donald is “an idiot” she was absolutely correct.
rest assured, these farmers voted for trump, probably by an 80% margin, in general farmers overwhelmingly support his fascist policies, they only complain when they’re affected
Turns out the criminal gang members are actually keeping your economy going and paying taxes.
The Great Leap Forward.
The whole country is
Why show up! You could die in ICE custody!
Smooth as stucco, Mr. Trump. Smooth as stucco.
Hope MAGATs and Repfuckblicans will realize soon that they too will be affected!
Notice the government is doing this in mostly in blue states, damaging state business, food production, and causing harm to the local/state economy. This is punishment, retribution, and as a state, we should consider California sovereignty priorities and safety, protecting what we hold dear.
Where are all of the manly maga men who yearn for honest labor instead of being chained to a computer, doing a wimpy 'email job'? or whatever isn't manly enough for them, all day? Their dear leader 'glorifies physical labor as moral purification' - not his own labor mind you, just yours. 😄👍
They're working for ice.
They want to own the farms they don't want to work the fields
Real men get dirt under their fingernails.
Magats aren't real men anyway. They would do shitty work and whine all day on a construction crew.
Not only are Republicans destroying families and ripping them apart, they are destroying agriculture and leaving all in the nation worse off. Racists (Republicans) are dumb and selfish and most evil humans.
It's fucking Stephen Miller's stupid ass not understanding how anything works outside of his racism, and this is what racism has always done. It's almost as if some greater power is like, "Dumbasses. Hate don't work."
Unfortunately, I think he knows exactly what he’s doing.
See. I think he's so in his shit, that he doesn't get his shit is anathema to how this country works. Hell. When the fucking far right Italian government is bringing in immigrants, and state they are important to Italy's economy. It's clear, that it's just hate here, and a lot of stupid behind it.
$1 a little tiny plum in Albuquerque.
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Trump will make sure farmers get a big fat check…just like last time. 🤬
How long before food shortages hit the grocery stores? Not just higher prices, but empty shelves. What will people do? Jean Valjean got seven years for stealing a loaf of bread. Is this why they are building camps?
Farmland gonna be soo cheap. And just think how great it would be if all the domestic inmates could help harvest there!
it's also a good way for corporate farms (monsanto, etc) to swoop in and buy up the "little guy" farms which will fail because of lack of cheap labor. controlling who gets educated, who gets to eat, who gets healthcare...sounds awfully like a dictatorship to me.
I think the plan is to cause a good crisis.
It’s intentional “let them starve”
At least Marie Antoinette let them eat cake but it still didn’t work out well for her.
And at least she thought they could make it. (Maybe, purposely naive) who knows.
True. She did seem to care
I don’t believe so. I will just call it willful ignorance for her convenience. But what do I know.
Trump has the perfect recipe for stagflation: > Tariff imports & > Cut Domestic Production. Sometimes, I wonder if Trump is a Russian mole, or just Putin’s useful idiot?
Who cares. You voted it. Just another joke on amorica.
Screw the farmers for not fighting for their workers.
The US may still not get strawberries. With storms, heat etc & the US being arses, those berries may not show up for any price.
Any way he can damage California, directly or abstractly, he will. His hatred of California is palpable.
Question-would there be coordination between ICE and larger growers to destabilize smaller growers?
Related to larger question-will the ICE actions(in cities, and towns also) result in property stealing-businesses, homes, vehicles?
It did for the Nazis 1.0. I imagine it will be the same for 2.0
Almost certainly. I’ve thought this too. Maga farms/businesses go unraided while anyone that didn’t donate etc has their workforce nabbed
Or also, shakedowns.
After hearing about the deals with detainment center contractors overseas, I can only assume so
Exactly! Trump wants to punish CA for opposing his destructive buffoonery.
Putins bottom, tRump is doing it for his Daddy
this is why I love Bluesky I'm glad to see so many people see what they are doing. it's probably in the 40b ICE budget, labor camps, wow
Economic sabotage is exactly what I’d expect from a rapist felon insurrectionist trust fund nazi. Why didn’t the rest of America?
Trump wants to punish California.
The goal is to force farmers to sell to blackrock, Main Street, et al.
Two weeks ago, American consumers of news were going crazy about the appearance of National Guard troops and Marines being stationed in Los Angeles and folks being swept up at Home Depot stores. I imagine that's all still happening, but we've moved on already to a Fla. death camp. This is NUTS!
exactly agree with you
We will all suffer!! Except the rich!!
Fdt
The senate passed their fracking authoritarian bill!? we're screwed!
Americans are not running to do agriculture. Hard work and heat. I know I was in construction
Pushing the number four economy out of the fold. #Cascadia.
It's stupidity dressed up as cruelty.
This is war on the American people.
Large farms will receive government subsidies to cover their loss af least for this year. Workers lose their jobs, costs for less will soar. Who will the government capture and enslave to work the fields, construction, and hospitality after that? Mass incarceration will lead to enslaved people.
America first 😕
Many of us saw this coming. We will see the results of this insanity at the grocery stores. We will also see rising prices at hotels, restaurants, and in construction cost. Does anyone know an American that's willing to pick produce in the scorching summer sun for less than minimum wage? Too much.
No. It's in the triple digits here in AZ. We are not going out to pick fruit so maga can feed their faces.
When there are no more strawberries 🍓 and you tell your kids they won’t be getting them anymore… remember to also tell them why
I’m sick of all this evil facist style racism I feel so helpless to be able to stop it
Bigotry, pure and simple.
Time to get the republican congress out to the fields to harvest the damage, or resign immediately.
Actually it's stupidity. The head orange-faced moron has no idea of how things in real life work.
I’ll bet those farmers voted for trump though, because he was only going to terrorize other brown people. They’re getting what they voted for.
They thought from Fox they would just pick up the millions of non existing people on border not documented workers. Sold propaganda now get the stick. GOP doing all the stuff Dems tried to warn about but "fake news".👹
When you realize trump works for Putin and not for America it all makes sense
Deliberate economic destruction. Trump keeps talking about stupid numbers like "lowering prices -1500%" because it's code for saying "I'm going to destroy our economy so my rich friends can take over administering it."
I can live without strawberries year round because I grew up that way. I also understand where our food comes from and what it takes to get it to our tables. 47 and his policies will have consequences we haven't thought of yet!
And so it begins. The last shoe to drop in this horrific show where we have turned against our values and neighbors: Grocery prices will spike as produce farms fail because the workers have disappeared for theor own safety or because they were snatched by masked agents.
And the owners don't get prosecuted. And they lose business and don't pay taxes. And the laborers don't pay taxes and into social security (which they often can't benefit from). And white people don't show up to take these jobs. And and and... The trickle-down effect... Are we great yet?
In 🇨🇦 I’m going to preserving a lot this summer I think produce prices will be insane
Um, don't you think that they are going to use the immigrants that they are rounding up to solve this problem 🤔
Nothing says national security like full dependence on imported food while torturing swaths of innocents in your own land
Ontario strawberries are amazing.
tRumpf is a destroyer of everything...
Well, get them white boys out there to them fields and then white boys better get ready to fight more endless wars.
Californians were “mean” to Donnie, and must pay!
the admin is creating a food shortage, and TARIFFS will only exacerbate the crisis. WE *HAD* THE STRONGEST ECONOMY ON EARTH
They’re destroying the US infrastructure and institutions to control people. It’s a coup, just like Project 2025 promised
I remember the vote trump signs along the highway every time I passed a farm. I remembered what happened the last time they voted for trump. Farmers figured trump was good for them…again. Now the hands are coming out…again. (Bailout anyone?)
This is so wrong on so many levels.
Can’t wait to pay $20 for strawberries. Not! MAGA, here are your jobs that the immigrants were stealing! Get in line.
I’m still waiting for MAGA to hit those fields!
Exactly! All those jobs the immigrants were stealing!
It's not gonna be just California. Just wait until it hits a red state.
