Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina enacted draconian immigration laws. The result, millions in losses as tomatoes, cabbage, etc., rotted on the vine. No labor to pick them. Immigrants, legal and illegal, harvest our produce.
Trump’s crackdown will follow the example of these Southern states only nationwide with the resulting losses. The American Farm Bureau Federation says 61 percent of fruit production will shift to other countries due to labor shortages. The Trump/Republican baloney that these immigrants take American jobs is not substantiated by fact. The United Farm Workers union put out a job search and got three people in spite of thousands of inquiries. The poor wages, conditions, benefits in farm jobs keep Americans from taking or wanting them.
The Trump/Republican finger-pointing at illegal immigrants are good election tactics — for them — but now Republicans who own farms will be screaming the loudest over rotting crops, as they did in the South.
