Machia voted for Trump, drawn by promises of border control and national security. “We didn’t want drugs or gangbangers,” he said. But what he didn’t expect was losing some of his most dedicated employees to immigration arrests.

“It’s scaring the farming community,” Machia admitted. “We didn’t think they’d come for the people who help us milk cows.”

LOL. Idiots

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    One move could be to move to higher value or lower labour agriculture. Stuff like tomatoes, wheat and root veg can be harvested by machine. Higher value relative to the manual labour put in could be meat production.

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      Even the Bing “AI” label it as crap. Putting the name in quotes on ddg gives 1 result, and it’s not the website. Its mediabiasfactcheck.com, which calls it quiestionable. And it didn’t exist a couple of years ago. All the articles are written by “Ethan Brooks” or just the site name.

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    Just hire American citizens instead, then.

    Oh wait, you say that would cost more? Sounds like you’re a loser deserves to go out of business, then!

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    So did he have drugs and gangs on his farm? Or did Trump just tell him it was a problem and he believed it?

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    “Even though Machia says he would still vote for Trump”. We are all screwed. This person is directly negatively impacted by the person he voted for and complaining but vote for additional negative consequences moving forward…which they will also complain about.

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      “Replacing your whole crew every few months isn’t realistic,” said Machia. “It takes time to train people, and locals just don’t want to do this work anymore.”

      But he’d do it all over again. Cults are wild.

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    “It’s scaring the farming community,” Machia admitted. “We didn’t think they’d come for the people who help us milk cows.”

    “We didn’t think the leopards would eat our faces!”

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      A d then they will be forced to raise wages to attract people and then prices go up and everyone will be shocked that food inflation spirals again.

      I believed Trump when he said the egg prices would go down.and that foreigners would pay the tariffs.

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    Here’s the problem. The person complaining about Trump’s admin policies and carrying out these arrests … Yeah that person says they would still vote for Trump.

    So, what the fuck are you supposed to do? That’s like someone complaining about inviting a person over that ended up stabbing them but saying they would still invite them back.

    Ok … So I guess if logic is completely out of the picture how are we supposed to get anywhere with anyone that voted for Trump? It’s like they watch the consequences of their decision, complain about the consequences then queue up to repeat the same decision.

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    I have a great deal of sympathy for them.

    The people who used to milk the cows, that is.

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    “We didn’t want drugs or gangbangers,”

    We thought they’d be arresting n*****s. There. That’s what he meant.