Immigration raids are threatening businesses that supply America's food, farm bureaus say

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 3:41 PM EDT, June 13, 2025


VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — Large-scale immigration raids at packinghouses and fields in California are threatening businesses that supply much of the country’s food, farm bureaus say. Dozens of farmworkers have been arrested recently after uniformed federal agents fanned out on farms northwest of Los Angeles in Ventura County, which is known for growing strawberries, lemons and avocados.

Others are skipping work as fear in immigrant communities has deepened as President Donald Trump steps up his immigration crackdown, vowing to dramatically increase arrests and sending federal agents to detain people at Home Depot parking lots and workplaces including car washes and a garment factory. It also comes as Trump sent National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles following protests over his immigration enforcement operations. Demonstrations have since spread to other U.S. cities.

Maureen McGuire, chief executive of Ventura County’s farm bureau, said between 25% and 45% of farmworkers have stopped showing up for work since the large-scale raids began this month.

“When our workforce is afraid, fields go unharvested, packinghouses fall behind, and market supply chains, from local grocery stores to national retailers, are affected,” she said in a statement on Thursday. “This impacts every American who eats.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/immigration-raids-california-farmworkers-1301639766f55c8d4e8e15ff2fd45687

[Old Crank]

1. Every one of them

probably, voted for Trump.
They were told and now they are shocked.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Food shortages and increased prices.

This is the country the PutinGOP wants.

[travelingthrulife]

5. And when we are desperate enough to accept Chinese manufacturing wages

all the manufacturing will come back. It's magic!

[Irish_Dem]

7. And we will all be very rich. More magic!!

[Magoo48]

3. I thought the maggots were all about lower prices for food.

When you attack California’s agricultural economy, every maggot will be paying higher prices for fruit, vegetables, and nuts right along with the rest of us.

[mwmisses4289]

4. But don't crops get harvested by the

the magic hand of God? I mean, we really don't need people and machines to do the harvesting, do we?

[Wonder Why]

10. Not true about the nuts. maggots don't eat them. They vote for them.

Please verify your sources.

[Magoo48]

11. Of course, I stand corrected.

[travelingthrulife]

6. Duh.

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. By design.

Price out necessities so that the protesting peons have no choice but to either work or starve.

I assure you that the top percentile will not suffer from any of this just yet. That is the plan as well. Watch how fast these things will disappear once they feel they have cowered enough of us to make sure we are compliant serfs and not human beings.

Being human is not profitable, after all.

[republianmushroom]

9. Them rich farmers got their man in office.

So lets stop the whining about what he's doing. They voted for him. One must accept the consequences for one action, good or bad.

[Skittles]

13. they know repukes will bail them out

yup

[lonely bird]

12. Really?

I am stunned.

That isn’t directed at the Farm Bureaus. It is directed to the MAGAts.