Around 75% of immigrant farm workers in Bakersfield, California, ditched their shifts after Trump ramped up his threats by removing protections against ICE raids in “sensitive areas,” including schools and workplaces.

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    2 days ago

    I think the real issue is we’re using undocumented immigrants to do these jobs. They don’t get the same protections that legal workers get.

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      Absolutely, but we are well past people using logic and reason. We wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place, and we could have spent time actually solving legal immigration (among many other things) instead of years of focus on her emails and all the nonsense of 2016-2020.

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      That may be an underlying issue but when the baby is incessantly screaming and crying, it doesn’t help to throw boiling water on it