Anonymous
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6/21/2025, 10:34:44 PM No.508227142
>Texas farmers hit hard as migrant workers avoid ICE
>DONNA, Texas (KVEO) — Farmers in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley say they are feeling the pinch of workers failing to show up due to the ongoing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.
>Farmer Nick Billman of Donna told Nexstar’s KVEO that the raids are keeping employees from coming to work, leaving farmers without any help. He said things started getting worse just weeks ago.
>“I would say within the last three weeks, it started to slow, but this last week has been huge,” Billman said. “That is when it has been zero people wanting to come out and be exposed, to be able to be picked up, whether they are legal or illegal.”
>This as Billman reported having zero workers on his farm for the past week.
>“One hundred percent. One hundred percent don’t want to come out of fear of being picked up even if they are doing it the right way,” Billman said.
>Billman was left alone, cleaning up debris from a storm that moved through on Thursday. While storm debris cleanup is easy, Billman told KVEO that he believes the country’s food supply could be impacted if the pressure on farms continues.
>“It could be to the point where we lose our planting and having the ground ready, and even then, why plan if we cannot even harvest?” the farmer said. “My family and I can harvest by hand ourselves, but the amount we need in order to cover that cost of growing, we have to have much broader personnel than just family hands-on.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5353065-immigration-raids-ice-texas-farmers-workers/
Oh look, the "freeloading illegal immigrants" were actually the entire agricultural workforce. How will chuds try to spin this when the price of food skyrockets within a few months?
>DONNA, Texas (KVEO) — Farmers in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley say they are feeling the pinch of workers failing to show up due to the ongoing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.
>Farmer Nick Billman of Donna told Nexstar’s KVEO that the raids are keeping employees from coming to work, leaving farmers without any help. He said things started getting worse just weeks ago.
>“I would say within the last three weeks, it started to slow, but this last week has been huge,” Billman said. “That is when it has been zero people wanting to come out and be exposed, to be able to be picked up, whether they are legal or illegal.”
>This as Billman reported having zero workers on his farm for the past week.
>“One hundred percent. One hundred percent don’t want to come out of fear of being picked up even if they are doing it the right way,” Billman said.
>Billman was left alone, cleaning up debris from a storm that moved through on Thursday. While storm debris cleanup is easy, Billman told KVEO that he believes the country’s food supply could be impacted if the pressure on farms continues.
>“It could be to the point where we lose our planting and having the ground ready, and even then, why plan if we cannot even harvest?” the farmer said. “My family and I can harvest by hand ourselves, but the amount we need in order to cover that cost of growing, we have to have much broader personnel than just family hands-on.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5353065-immigration-raids-ice-texas-farmers-workers/
Oh look, the "freeloading illegal immigrants" were actually the entire agricultural workforce. How will chuds try to spin this when the price of food skyrockets within a few months?
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