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Pork, chicken, produce, etc.
If people think food is expensive now, just wait until trump deported the people who were exploited to get that food ready for sale.
Prices will either go up because of a lack of supply (if not enough people work on farms or packing plants a lot will go to waste, and scarcity drives up cost); or prices will go up because companies will have to hire legal employees and will have to pay them a fair wage.
Comment by Worried-Notice8509 at 24/01/2025 at 20:41 UTC
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Here in California, 75% of workers didn't show up to harvest oranges in Bakersfield. They heard ICE was in the county earlier. Farmers are concerned. Food will rot in the fields. Throw the tarriff on Mexican goods into the mix and we will see prices skyrocket.
Comment by domesticatedwolf420 at 25/01/2025 at 04:37 UTC
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If people think food is expensive now, just wait until trump deported the people who were exploited to get that food ready for sale.
Good. I'll gladly pay more for food if it means we fix a deeply broken system that relies on exploiting foreign workers.
Comment by LegendTheo at 25/01/2025 at 00:29 UTC
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So you're cool with modern slave labor picking your food so it's cheaper?