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Crackdown On Illegal Immigrants Leads To Empty Shelves In US Stores by panafrican(op): 4:27pm On Feb 16, 2025
Illegal immigrant Power grin
No more illegals to work under the table on minimum wages on those farms In California, Nebraska , New Mexico , Texas etc.
The supply chain is broken, shelves are empty.

Re: Crackdown On Illegal Immigrants Leads To Empty Shelves In US Stores by Doylestown92(m): 6:53pm On Feb 16, 2025
May you be opportuned to come to the US, and save yourself the delusion. Also I love how you mention California, Nebraska etc. You don't know shit about this place! Guess where is empty? Your h...
Re: Crackdown On Illegal Immigrants Leads To Empty Shelves In US Stores by panafrican(op): 10:12pm On Feb 16, 2025
Doylestown92:
May you be opportuned to come to the US, and save yourself the delusion. Also I love how you mention California, Nebraska etc. You don't know shit about this place! Guess where is empty? Your h...
Do you remember the Chinese Revolutionary regime under Mao when people were killing birds
to protect crops ? The result was dire : after millions of birds were killed, caterpillars took over
and ate all leaves. A famine followed. It means , many things are connected , sometimes you need some part of
what is not right to make " what is right " work.

Reading:
<< Forbes
Business
How Donald Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Threatens U.S. Food Supply
Daphne Ewing-Chow
Senior Contributor
Stories about food & agriculture through the lens of climate change

Feb 11, 2025,12:49pm EST
Updated Feb 14, 2025, 04:03pm EST
Trump Immigration


The 1,691 farms of Kern County, California, should have been alive with movement in the predawn hours one morning last month. But instead, on one January day, the fields were eerily quiet.

News of Operation Return To Sender spread quickly. The day before, federal agents in unmarked SUVs implemented Trump immigration orders, detaining unsuspecting farm workers and leaving behind an abandoned harvest and a community in angst.

As the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement, the undocumented farmworkers who sustain the $1.53 trillion U.S. agricultural industry— comprising 42% to 50% of the workforce— are living in heightened fear of deportation.

“We’re hitting every sanctuary city right now,” said Tom Homan, Trump’s “border czar” on January 23, referencing cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Houston and Chicago that limit cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Farmers and industry specialists fear that stricter deportation policies could lead to severe labor shortages, disrupting food production and driving up consumer prices.

A February 10th research note from Goldman Sachs cautioned that agriculture would be among the industries most vulnerable to President Trump’s immigration crackdown, which aims to ramp up deportations to approximately 500,000 per year. The American Immigration Council estimates that mass deportation could displace approximately 224,700 farmworkers.


“The key risk is probably not a scenario in which annual deportations reach into the millions, but one where an immigration crackdown creates a climate where employers are afraid to employ unauthorized immigrants or unauthorized immigrants are afraid to go to work, potentially leading many to stay out of the workforce or even to leave the U.S. on their own,” said Goldman Sachs’ Chief Economist, Jan Hatzius.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daphneewingchow/2025/02/11/trump-immigration-crackdown-threatens-us-food-supply/
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Re: Crackdown On Illegal Immigrants Leads To Empty Shelves In US Stores by NothingDoMe: 11:00pm On Feb 16, 2025
Doylestown92:
May you be opportuned to come to the US, and save yourself the delusion. Also I love how you mention California, Nebraska etc. You don't know shit about this place! Guess where is empty? Your h...
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Re: Crackdown On Illegal Immigrants Leads To Empty Shelves In US Stores by FEGNO: 11:12pm On Feb 16, 2025
Very true. As at yesterday Sams club was rationing eggs. Only 2 crates per family. No fruits no veggies. Even plantain which my children can’t do without and which is usually constant in Walmart stores has not been on the shelves for almost 2 weeks
Re: Crackdown On Illegal Immigrants Leads To Empty Shelves In US Stores by sunboy(m): 11:16pm On Feb 16, 2025
FEGNO:
Very true. As at yesterday Sams club was rationing eggs. Only 2 crates per family. No fruits no veggies. Even plantain which my children can’t do without and which is usually constant in Walmart stores has not been in the shelves for almost 2 weeks
This is majorly because of the bird flu issue and immigration is not the real reason for the egg shortages.

No fruits no veggies ? What city, state are you? I don’t like lies! It hasn’t gotten to this please!
Re: Crackdown On Illegal Immigrants Leads To Empty Shelves In US Stores by sunboy(m): 11:19pm On Feb 16, 2025
panafrican:
Illegal immigrant Power grin
No more illegals to work under the table on minimum wages on those farms In California, Nebraska , New Mexico , Texas etc.
The supply chain is broken, shelves are empty.
This is ridiculous though! You know there are over 100s of 000 stores in the US right ? Post two random picture don’t mean anybody will believe your lie though.

Name the store, city and state where their shelves are this empty.
Re: Crackdown On Illegal Immigrants Leads To Empty Shelves In US Stores by Nahunger(m): 5:39am On Feb 17, 2025
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