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11. A couple of points

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Much produce comes from "blue states," Washington, Oregon, and California in particular.

Experienced farm workers here make closer to $20 an hour. Entry level is $9.

Disruptions in the food supply affect everyone, regardless of how they voted.

Paramilitary raids, mass arrests and indefinite detention, denial of due process, Gestapo tactics and horrific abuses have all been going on for 20+ years.

(I was called away. Here are some more observations.)

States don't vote, people do. Millions of Democratic voters live within the boundaries of "red" states. Even in "red" districts 40-49% of voters can often be Democratic voters.

Many immigrant farm workers here have earned citizenship.(They are under pressure). Many are from Europe. (They are not under pressure.) Many ag workers are white and are US citizens.

Here is how it breaks down in my experience:

Hispanic people are being terrorized, no matter where they work and no matter their status. It has nothing to do with immigration, it is white nationalism.

Workers with language skills, math skills, literacy and familiarity with machinery are not field workers, no matter their status or ethnicity

Workers without language skills, math skills, literacy and familiarity with machinery take field work. At one time that was mostly Dust Bowl refugees (think Grapes of Wrath). Today it is mostly immigrants from the South.