Leopards Ate My Face

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‘We Voted for Trump to Fix the Border. Now We’re Milking Cows Alone at 4 A.M.’ – Vermont Farmers Face Harsh Reality as ICE Raids Hit Home (thesarkariform.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/44641840

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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Just hire Americans

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I wanted a new piercing but now I have a hole in my body with a piece of metal in it and am out $100. How could this go so wrong‽

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The leopards were supposed to eat everybody else's face only.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Oh no! Are they having the day they voted for?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Lol, FOAD.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Now they can find a cliff and jump! That would solve the country’s issue with stupidity and solve many national security concerns.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah yes, making America Great Again. By bringing us back to a time period in which everyone in the household worked on the farm. Kids didn't go to school during planting and harvesting. Ditto for milking season. Better pump out six kids so you can have farm hands!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Farmers will pay more to hire local workers and they can sell their products for more because everybody has to pay more. This will effectively rise minimum wage for every citizen because demand for legal workers will increase.

Are only the farmer short sighted or do the emotions in this post come from people who know what is coming? Soon there will be a time when prices for food will rise but wages have not adjusted. It's not the farmers who will work more but every above minimum wage worker whose wages don't adjust.

Regular citizens have profited of human trafficing and low wages for unskilled workers.

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