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Klarkashton

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4. This is an extremely serious problem that the asshole

Reply to PlanetBev (Original post)

Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:55 PM

Jun 2025

Has created.

Years ago they tried these raids and after they couldn't find anybody that could handle that impossibly hard work. They immediately had to stop that shit and create "the guest worker program".
I suppose that either they are too stupid to remember those things or they are so hell bent with blind rage that they don't care.
Nobody is going to go out to those fields now under these circumstances.

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Anybody here from Ventura County, CA? [View all] PlanetBev Jun 2025 OP

All over the country.............. Lovie777 Jun 2025 #1

To get a harbinger of what's to come DENVERPOPS Jun 2025 #11

Wish we could make these ICE agents pick the strawberries. They would die of exhaustion after the first day. Walleye Jun 2025 #2

I've been thinking about this. ananda Jun 2025 #3

This is an extremely serious problem that the asshole Klarkashton Jun 2025 #4

Calilfornia should impose tariffs on all Abolishinist Jun 2025 #5

Is that by any chance legal? Hekate Jun 2025 #7

It would violate the commerce clause of the constitution. I think it's intended as wishful thinking. Gaugamela Jun 2025 #12

No, wishful thinking as noted. Just venting. Abolishinist Jun 2025 #22

Right here -- plan to be on Victoria Street in front of the County buildings on Saturday... Hekate Jun 2025 #6

That video of ICE trampling through misty Ventura County fields to takle a helpless strawberry picker... SunSeeker Jun 2025 #10

Those farm owners voted for Trump. They thought he'd only deport "criminals." SunSeeker Jun 2025 #8

You sure about that? Beaverhausen Jun 2025 #9

California farm owners are predominantly GOP, unlike the California voters as a whole. SunSeeker Jun 2025 #17

Yes I have driven up there many times Beaverhausen Jun 2025 #18

I wish it wasn't true. SunSeeker Jun 2025 #21

All the Trumphumper voters DENVERPOPS Jun 2025 #13

Shit FirstLight Jun 2025 #14

We have got to kick these fuckers out of the White House. Initech Jun 2025 #15

The shortages are already happening. Sogo Jun 2025 #16

Ventura ventuckian Jun 2025 #19

I grew up in Fillmore, in Ventura County. MineralMan Jun 2025 #20