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alwaysinasnit

(5,075 posts)
Sat Aug 22, 2020, 07:23 PM Aug 2020

For all those RWNJ's that whine about "illegals" taking their jobs...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/22/california-farmworkers-wildfires-air-quality-coronavirus?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

Workers who pick our fruits and vegetables are out in the field through wildfire, pandemic, drought or storm, putting their health in jeopardy

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As hundreds of fires burn across California, blanketing swaths of the state in smoke so thick that it muted the sun, low-wage farmworkers continued to toil in the fields, working through grueling conditions, now made even worse by the air quality.

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42bambi

(1,753 posts)
3. Every time I buy a container of berries or veggies I think of those workers, hunched
Sat Aug 22, 2020, 07:48 PM
Aug 2020

over for hours and hours in those fields, all so we can have fresh fruit and veggies! I wish I could thank them.

JI7

(89,271 posts)
4. They don't care. When say things like this they don't feel compassion. They respond
Sat Aug 22, 2020, 07:50 PM
Aug 2020

with things like "they should go back if they don't like it".

Hekate

(90,826 posts)
5. Immigrants throughout our history are the people who do dangerous backbreaking jobs...
Sat Aug 22, 2020, 07:55 PM
Aug 2020

...that nearly all citizens have the option of not doing any more.

When I hear of Americans whinging like that, I just want to hand them a job application for a meat packing plant or a fruit-picker. Enjoy. Tell your kids that’s their summer job.

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