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turbinetree

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Thu Aug 21, 2025, 02:38 PM Aug 21

Florida Farmers To Trump: 'This Is Going To End Us' [View all]

Many said they are paying well above the minimum wage, and yet they have gotten few American-born job applicants.

By Susie Madrak — August 21, 2025

Florida farmers can't find Americans willing to work to fill jobs abandoned by immigrants are saying they will have to cut back on future plantings out of fear of going out of business. Via Raw Story:

According to a report from NPR, those farmers have suffered losses of almost half their seasonal workers and can’t afford to replace them with H2A visa workers as has been suggested by Trump administration officials.

NPR’s Jasmine Garsd is reporting that despite pleas from farmers to grant amnesty to farm workers, the Trump administration is resisting, with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins telling them, “Ultimately, the answer to this is automation. And then also when you think about it, there are 34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid program. There are plenty of workers in America.”

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/08/florida-farmers-trump-going-end-us

To all the farmers that voted for the fascist traitor............you haven't figured it out yet...............just maybe you should look at what Russia did to the farmers.............

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