Rep Lieu: 75% of immigrant farm workers didn't show up yesterday in Bakersfield because of fears of ICE raids

[Dennis Donovan]

Ted Lieu
‪@tedlieu.bsky.social‬
Grocery prices will rise due to Republican policies.

“75% of immigrant farm workers didn’t show up yesterday in Bakersfield because of fears of ICE raids under the new presidency.”

January 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/tedlieu.bsky.social/post/3lgdutbue6k2f

[Attilatheblond]

1. Better plant gardens. People are gonna be out of veggies in no time

[Mossfern]

3. Tough to plant a garden in NJ in January

I guess we'll put up deer fencing this Spring and re-establish our garden.
My next door neighbor used the produce from his garden the entire year.
His wife did complain bitterly during canning season - but it was a "fond" complaint.

I miss you Elmer and June!

[Attilatheblond]

11. Lived in MT for years

My big dining table was a greenhouse for starting seeds

[Yavin4]

12. MAGA doesn't eat veggies.

Checkmate Liberal!

/sarcasm

[CaptainTruth]

21. Yep, they eat pets. That's what many people are saying.

[BoRaGard]

23. Meatheadedness is no way to go through life

[LisaM]

19. What about people in apartments?

I can't plant a garden. And there are hardly any pea-patches to be had.

[Think. Again.]

26. Community gardens are wonderful places!

[delisen]

27. There may be some options

Some grow microgreens in their apartments. I have been researching growing these. I am also going to do some sprouts. If you can grow these they at least are good for salads and are nutritious.

It is easier to grow in apt if you get some good natural light.

Some churches have farm share programs that bring in produce from nearby farms. These may be worth looking into even when things get scarce.

[Attilatheblond]

37. Also, some towns have community gardens where people can rent a garden plot

We have one in our small border area city. Very nice, actually.

[delisen]

39. All these local efforts are great

I guess a community garden helps to strengthen relationships in communities too

[kerouac2]

2. Once schools get defunded, and kids are allowed to work at age 10, all will be rosey

Those hard working immigrants tend to get paid by the bushel/quantity and not by the hour I think. If Americans take the jobs, and that's a big IF, cost will go thru the roof.

Yep, better plant those gardens.

[Scrivener7]

4. This will hit everywhere. My heart breaks for the people who are the target. I have heard of

places around here where school attendance is way down.

The slim silver lining in this story is that rural regions, who voted hard for the felon, are now going to be ruined by him. Good.

Our only hope is that the fallout from his shit is so bad in these early days that his followers turn against him.

[Bluethroughu]

24. I don't think they will.

These people have a miserable disposition.
Their lives are unhappy, marriages unhappy, kids unhappy...lots of misery for no reason.

They lack gratefulness. I live in a rural area, they wouldn't kill you but they will always blame unhappiness on everything but themselves.

It brings me to a scientific study that believes the differences between Liberals and Conservatives is biological. When they did brain scans they found differences between the two political differences, but similarities within the groups.

These people are not easily taught to see things from different perspectives, and this is why they do not understand sarcasm well or dry humor.

They will only join us, if they have no other route.

[Abolishinist]

30. "a scientific study that believes the differences between Liberals and Conservatives is biological"

I'm a huge fan of the MasterClass series by Chris Voss, The Art of Negotiation. Mr. Voss was the lead international kidnapping negotiator for the FBI, as well as the FBI's hostage negotiation representative for the National Security Council's Hostage Working Group.

He focuses on the amygdala, a tiny portion of the brain about the size of a peanut, and is the part of the brain that generates fear in reaction to threats.

One study found that compared to liberals, conservatives tend to have larger amygdalas and smaller anterior cingulate cortexes, which are involved in error detection, impulse control and emotional regulation.

These findings spurred headlines in 2011 like “Conservatives Big on Fear, Brain Study Finds” and “Conservatives Are Scaredy Cats."

[Bluethroughu]

31. Not sure a component of it..

The brain scans of each group were different from eachother but same lighting in same regions for people belonging to that group.

I'll try and find it.

[Bluethroughu]

32. Here's a few links

The brain scans of each group were different from eachother but same lighting in same regions for people belonging to that group.

I'll try and find it.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/conservative-and-liberal-brains-might-have-some-real-differences/&ved=2ahUKEwi8m8e2pIqLAxUN48kDHdxpDZQQFnoECCgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1iY1P8YxKDCSbgq1-_RAND
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.brown.edu/news/2023-02-01/political-brain&ved=2ahUKEwi8m8e2pIqLAxUN48kDHdxpDZQQFnoECCQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2z5Di4zmCPO_KWETQ_z9KN
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72980-x&ved=2ahUKEwi8m8e2pIqLAxUN48kDHdxpDZQQFnoECCYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0uOdnob5lSvpP4__dc8EQL

[spanone]

5. K&R

[tavernier]

6. What a relief!

Now our pure American kids can get out there and work work work the jobs that they were being robbed of. They must have arrived in droves once the word was out. Good job, mister president!

[iluvtennis]

25. As you know, they don't want farmworker jobs and probably aren't qualified to do the work...they simply want to complain

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about undocumented workers. Evil fk'ers. So now, we all have to pay higher food prices and not get an adequate supply of veggies.

[Dem4life1234]

33. This!

They're too lazy and entitled to do the job.

They just want to whine.

[Mysterian]

7. Lots of undocumented workers in giant pork plants in SD and ND

Are red states exempt from these raids?

[Farmer-Rick]

20. Yup, all the Nazis raiders need to do is

Wait outside any Tyson or Smithfield slaughter houses. (They call them processing plants but the name ain't fooling anyone.)

They should check out Margo-Load-O and any place with a Trump logo. That's mostly what the Nazi dictator uses is undocumented workers.

[CanonRay]

8. Kern County went almost 60% for Trump

Fuck the white farmers. And the white business owners that depend on them. They voted for this. I feel sorry for the workers and their families.

[Wiz Imp]

9. Welcome to skyrocketing inflation!

This was entirely predictable.

[tanyev]

10. Make Groceries Affordable Again, my ass.

Saw signs like that all over the place here in North Texas leading up to the election. Not the last two words, of course. That’s my own commentary.

[Magoo48]

13. No worries, the outta work gringos will pickup the slack, right?

[Tumbulu]

15. So funny!

Hopeless situation.

Be prepared for every single kind of food shortage.

[Magoo48]

18. Perhaps, civilian "la migra" spotters will stand guard for working men and women growing and harvesting our food.

[AverageOldGuy]

14. Carrots

Kern County produces 75% of carrots sold in US,

And the MAGAts thought eggs were expensive!!

[Volaris]

34. Theyre gonna be right furious when they find out how much the rest of the chicken costs.

Oh well. Leopards, motherfuckers.
Leopards ALL the way down.

[NoMoreRepugs]

16. Imagine how dumb and/or cruel one has to be to applaud these actions.

[Bluethroughu]

17. Tell the trump farms to go pick the crops.

[BoRaGard]

22. This is on the republicons

all their fault

[iemanja]

28. Food prices will soar

and the Trump voters will regret it. Fuck the farmers who voted for Trump too.

[lame54]

29. Can't wait to see those red hats in the fields

[Cha]

35. Aww Ain't that a Shame.

[LauraInLA]

36. The "smart MAGA" answer to this is that all the employers should be using H2A visas, the really expensive ones from the

program that’s effectively broken. That’s their new “solution”.

[flamingdem]

38. The work of Steven Miller

He's running the government even more than Musk.

[City Lights]

40. MAGA will learn the hard way.

It will be way too late by then though.