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[arizona1]

Maybe we can all put rotting oranges in our gas tanks. Inflation in 3-2-1.......

A surprising immigration raid in Kern County foreshadows what awaits farmworkers and businesses

Found this thanks to a Bluesky post from Gil Duran:

“You are talking about a recession-level event if this is the new long-term norm.” A surprising immigration raid in Kern County foreshadows what awaits farmworkers and businesses, via @calmatters.org calmatters.org/economy/2025...

— Gil Durán (@gilduran.com) 2025-01-10T23:41:59.718Z

https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/

Acres of orange fields sat unpicked in Kern County this week as word of Border Patrol raids circulated through Messenger chats and images of federal agents detaining laborers spread on local Facebook groups.

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“It was profiling, it was purely field workers,” said Sara Fuentes, store manager of the local gas station. Fuentes said that at 9 a.m., when the store typically gets a rush of workers on their way to pick oranges, two men in civilian clothes and unmarked Suburbans started detaining people outside the store. “They didn’t stop people with FedEx uniforms, they were stopping people who looked like they worked in the fields.” Fuentes says one customer pulled in just to pump gas and agents approached him and detained him.

Fuentes has lived in Bakersfield all her life and says she’s never seen anything like it. In one instance, she said a man and woman drove up to the store together, and the man went inside. Border Patrol detained the man as he walked out, Fuentes said, and then demanded the woman get out of the vehicle. When she refused, another agency parked his vehicle behind the woman, blocking her car. Fuentes said it wasn’t until the local Univision station showed up that Border Patrol agents backed up their car and allowed the woman to leave.

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“We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting. This sent shockwaves through the entire community,” said Casey Creamer, president of the industry group California Citrus Mutual, on Thursday. “People aren’t going to work and kids aren’t going to school. Yesterday about 25% of the workforce, today 75% didn’t show up.”

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Creamer disagreed with the Border Control claiming they're targeting what they say are bad people. They're just targeting workers.

And the result, a Cal State professor of economics said, will be "economic devastation" and "a recession-level event.". And food inflation and shortages.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219893532

[fuagf]

hap0206, It's always disappointing to see old guys as you continue to deny reality. Trump's 'halt the Ukraine war in a day' was obviously just one of his many abject electioneering lies from the beginning, yet how many of you Trump people would even agree to that. As undeniable that 'stop the war in a day' was always Trump bullshit is the fact the oil price in America is not governed simply by the amount of oil American oil companies have access to.