The reason is simple: an increase in immigration enforcement, including high-profile ICE raids, shook Texas farm workers to their core. The news filtered fast that workers—regardless of legal status—chose safety over a salary.

Farmers, who had been working with their crews for decades, described the loss as “devastating” and “unprecedented.” This is alarming as most farms are founded upon immigrant labor, both legal and illegal, creating a domino effect for the food system as a whole.

. . . When farm workers vanish, the effects are felt far beyond the fields. Livestock is untended, crops go unpicked, food production declines, and food prices dramatically increase. In Texas alone, where specialty vegetables and fruits must be hand-picked, worker shortages jeopardize entire harvest seasons.

This results in fewer foods on grocery store shelves, higher prices for families nationwide, and a greater reliance on imports. Threads on Reddit and YouTube are already predicting price hikes and empty produce shelves.

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 132 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The Texas farmers....."How can Biden do this to us?"

[–] BedInspector@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Every single one of these people in every story still supports Trump. Makes no sense.

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Cult

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cipolla explains why, see rule 3 and also why you don't understand, see rule 4

These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:

Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

[–] DredPyr8Roberts@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Also, you can't make things idiot proof, they will always build a bigger idiot.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I think it boils down to this....

Hardcore MAGA can't admit when they're wrong. These are the parents that never say sorry to their kids. They are ALWAYS right. They will be homeless on the street before Trump did this to them. They're team players, not individuals with a compass.

Just sheep.

[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago

Thanks Obama.