Trump administration says deportations threaten higher food prices

[j-mac]

There are less than 1million H1B visa holders in the US with just over 100,000 processed per year

Nope. Not working

How in your mind do we change that?

 

[justoffal]

Get this: Donald Trump’s own Labor Department is straight-up warning that with fewer illegals sneaking across the border to help out, farms are running out of hands to pick all the fruits and veggies. Stuff’s rotting right in the fields because good ol’ Americans just aren’t lining up for those back-breaking jobs in the sun.

no matter how much farmers beg or bump up the pay a smidge. That means less food hitting the shelves, and boom…your next apple or taco could cost way more bucks,

It sure looks like Mr. Trump might need to spin a full 180 real soon and ease up on the super-strict borders to let more helpers in legally or otherwise. Sure, it would sting since his big campaign promise was all about kicking out the undocumented crowd, but hey…putting the country first means keeping dinner affordable over saving face. Food inflation hitting families hard? That’s the real villain here.

As someone who voted for you twice, Mr. President, I’m begging: Open the gates for Juan and María and their crew. Our farms (and our wallets) need ‘em back…let’s keep America fed and fabulous!

Let’s make America Great Again.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/11/immigration-crackdown-food-prices/

Rotting in the fields eh?
Where is that exactly?

 

[Missourian]

You make a great argument for expanding the guest worker program and streamlining it

I agree.

So why isn’t that happening?

One reason is that Republicans would no longer have their bogeyman

Ok... let's be clear here so there are no misunderstandings.

If, after those who entered the country illegally or overstayed their visas are deported, we expanded the guest worker program, and resumed legal immigration, you would be happy with that.

 

[Lesh]

Ok... let's be clear here so there are no misunderstandings.

If, after those who entered the country illegally or overstayed their visas are deported, we expanded the guest worker program, and resumed legal immigration, you would be happy with that.

Expanded?

To 130,000 a year?

 

[XponentialChaos]

And legal and safety protections.

If farms have a very simple avenue for hiring LEGAL immigrant migrant workers... then ask yourself, what is the advantage for them in hiring illegal immigrants?

I'll give you a big clue.

Less wages. Substandard housing. Less safety protections. Less insurance. The power to threaten any employee with deportation.

Who are they going to complain to?

Yup. That has been going on for a while and is still happening.

The alternative options raise food prices for everyone. Are you sure that’s what you want?

 

[BrokeLoser]

Ok... let's be clear here so there are no misunderstandings.

If, after those who entered the country illegally or overstayed their visas are deported, we expanded the guest worker program, and resumed legal immigration, you would be happy with that.

AND ended birthright citizenship

 

[TheGreatSatan]

Get this: Donald Trump’s own Labor Department is straight-up warning that with fewer illegals sneaking across the border to help out, farms are running out of hands to pick all the fruits and veggies. Stuff’s rotting right in the fields because good ol’ Americans just aren’t lining up for those back-breaking jobs in the sun.

no matter how much farmers beg or bump up the pay a smidge. That means less food hitting the shelves, and boom…your next apple or taco could cost way more bucks,

It sure looks like Mr. Trump might need to spin a full 180 real soon and ease up on the super-strict borders to let more helpers in legally or otherwise. Sure, it would sting since his big campaign promise was all about kicking out the undocumented crowd, but hey…putting the country first means keeping dinner affordable over saving face. Food inflation hitting families hard? That’s the real villain here.

As someone who voted for you twice, Mr. President, I’m begging: Open the gates for Juan and María and their crew. Our farms (and our wallets) need ‘em back…let’s keep America fed and fabulous!

Let’s make America Great Again.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/11/immigration-crackdown-food-prices/

^^^ Supports fraud, slavery,:and human trafficking.

 

[Missourian]

Yup. That has been going on for a while and is still happening.

Agreed.

The alternative options raise food prices for everyone. Are you sure that’s what you want?

I'm sure increase in cotton prices was an 1864 argument against ending slavery.

Would you have been swayed by it?

 

[XponentialChaos]

I'm sure increase in cotton prices was an 1864 argument against ending slavery.

Would you have been swayed by it?

It’s adorable when you guys try these lame appeals to emotion.

Your feewings aside, these people are CHOOSING to be here and are welcome to leave at any time. So, not slavery. Not even close.

So back to the question, are you good with raising food prices for everyone? Because high grocery prices didn’t work out so good for Democrats.

 

[Missourian]

Expanded?

To 130,000 a year?

To a number that filled the requirement. But legal, tax paying, legally protected agracultural migrants. Not truck drivers or door dashers or construction workers. Limited to seasonal agracultural work and returning home at the end of the four month harvest season.

 

[g5000]

I don't understand why there aren't enough legal work visas issued to meet the harvesting demand. Something isn't adding up.

You have hit right on the problem.

Our immigration policy has been badly in need of reform for decades, but every time a bill is introduced, a handufl of racists in Congress kill it.

Even George Bush submitted an immigration reform bill, but it was killed.

The most nefarious example was the political murder of Eric Cantor, the Republican Whip, for daring to attempt the same.

Our quota system for immigrant farm laborers is seriously out of whack.

This is a basic supply and demand problem. Our farmers are not provided an adequate supply of workers to meet their labor demand, and so they have no choice but to hire illegals. To make matters worse, some dumbasses want employers like our farmers to be punished for doing so.

We need the quota system fixed.

I('ve been saying this for years and years, and that immigrants do the hard work Americans won't do.

Americans won't do the work for any price. Farmers have tried to no avail to lure American workers with higher wages.

No American is going to leave their suburban house to pick lettuce 50 miles away for one week, then travel 50 miles in the other direction to pick strawberries, and so on.

This is called MIGRANT labor for a reason.

 

[g5000]

Trump is ******* over America's farmers coming and going.

The man who made George Soros a billionaire, former Democrat Scott Bessent, did his hedge fund friends a huge favor by buying over 28 TRILLION Argentinian pesos.

As a result, China has stopped buying American soy and now buys soy from Argentina.

And now Trump is deporting the labor supply American farmers need.

Enjoy your higher grocery prices, folks.

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[g5000]

Did they mention illegals drain on American taxpayers?

They mention the drain on your purse when you pay more for groceries.


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Under the “public interest” prong of the good cause exception, “the question is not whether dispensing with notice and comment would be contrary to the public interest, but whether providing notice and comment would be contrary to the public interest.”  This prong applies here because, as is explained in detail hereinafter, at Section II.B, the lack of a reasonable and viable AEWR methodology, when combined with the current and imminent labor shortage exacerbated by the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens, increased enforcement of existing immigration law, and global competitiveness pressures described below, presents a sufficient risk of supply shock-induced food shortages to justify immediate implementation of this IFR (with a subsequent “final” final rule to follow the comment period).
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The near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens combined with the lack of an available legal workforce, results in significant disruptions to production costs and threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S consumers.
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Unless the Department acts immediately to provide a source of stable and lawful labor, this threat will grow as the tools Congress provided in H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, to enhance enforcement of the nation's immigration laws are deployed.

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Thus, based on the available evidence, the Department concludes that qualified and eligible U.S. workers, whether unemployed, marginally employed, or employed seeking work in agriculture, will not make themselves immediately available in sufficient numbers to avert the irreparable economic harm to agricultural employers who no longer have access to a ready pool of illegal aliens to fulfill their labor needs.
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This is everything I have been telling you people for over a decade.
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Federal Register :: Request Access

www.federalregister.gov

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Non citizens can be legal. Ever heard of legal immigrants? Clueless fellow conservative.

If they are legal and they cannot provide for themselves, deport them. Simple. They do not get public benefits at all.

 

[g5000]

This report I linked in my last post was put out by the Department of Labor.

In case any of you make the mistake of bleeving it is run by the D33P STAIT, their building was recently converted into a stereotypical totalitarian monument:

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[cnm]

To a number that filled the requirement. But legal, tax paying, legally protected agracultural migrants. Not truck drivers or door dashers or construction workers. Limited to seasonal agracultural work and returning home at the end of the four month harvest season.

Have you ever grown a crop?

 

[g5000]

It's sad, really.

The farmers who voted for Trump fucked themselves.

The millions of MAGAs on Medicaid fucked themselves. They are going to lose their health care so George Soros and the Trump family can keep their tax cuts.

Trump and his billionaire administration are grifting the **** out of their positions, and ass-raping the little guy.

Gee, color me surprised.

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[g5000]

How in your mind do we change that?

I have told you people for over a decade we need immigration reform, but every time someone submits a bill, a handful of racists knock it down.

Even Republicans have tried and were shot down by their own party members.

Two examples.

Here's a bill submitted by George W. Bush to Congress 18 years ago:

Comprehensive_Immigration_Reform_Act_of_2007​

Eric Cantor a Casualty of Immigration Reform​

The Tea Party has proven it still packs a political punch in 2014, thanks to the debate over immigration reform.

In the most stunning upset so far of this midterm season, the second-highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives lost his party’s primary on Tuesday. Eric Cantor, the man seen as next-in-line to become House Speaker, was handily defeated by college professor Dave Brat.



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I know you will scoff at this fact, but about supermajority of Americans want a path to legal status and citizenship for illegal aliens. I have proven this time and time again.

That means a tiny minority of bigots are holding a supermajority hostage.

 

[g5000]

Trump won in 2016 by appealing to the racists of America. They gave him just enough of an edge to win. He made the election about Mexicans and Muslims.

"They're rapists. They bring crime."

"I'm calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States".

Trump is an unmitigated racist and bigot.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Rotting in the fields eh?
Where is that exactly?

Not here. We all use machines and robots.