Column: Do you believe that exposed farmers can be replaced by Medicaid recipients?

Column: Do you believe that exposed farmers can be replaced by Medicaid recipients?

You know, not just the many models of AI language that hallucinating.

The Trump administration promotes the idea that if they are expelled to all unprecedented fields that plant and choose our plants, night workers will be filled with adult adults today Sitting around the house Play video games and take taxpayers for their public funded.

It is the foolish masquerading as arithmetic.

The other day, Secretary Secretary Brooke Brooke Rollins announced that, as opposed to Trump’s new statements, the administration did not plan to restore agricultural workers.

“The masses report continues, but in a strategic way, and we transfer workers to automation and 100 percent of American involvement,” He said During an incident in the US Department of Agriculture in the US. “In 34 million people, adult body adults in Medicaid, we need to do that quick easily.”

That number is more faulty, and a thin treatment effort to set up Medicaid – Medi-Cal in California – recipients as lazy, no. The number of American Americans in Medicaid that POWER able to choose our lettuce and apricots or who POWER produce our watermelons and strawberries are closer than 5 million, according to Congress budget office.

But if number 34 million or 5 million, a fantasy believes that Americans do the jobs currently filled with migrant farmers.

“Don’t want to happen,” Manuel Cunha said, leader of Nisei Farmers League, a grower support organization last 54 years ago

In the 1990s, Cunha was involved in A Dangerous Test To get adults in good and California Farming Workforce. Viewers associate state development departments, children’s care and transport care arrangements are made. And yet, as Cunha said in the Immigrittee of the US Sinmarttee’s Immigrite in 1999, only three people appeared to work in the field. “There is no interest on the part of individuals in the well-being of agriculture.”

And there is no reason to think it is different now.

Farm work requires skill and physical tenacity from years of experience. You just don’t pick up someone a peach orchard and tell them to get better with a tree. Or let them go slowly in a strawberry field and expect them to come back next day. In 2013, my colleague was decided that Hector Pecerra would experience farm work for himself, and arranged Spend a day picking strawberries In Santa Maria.

Hector Becerra, without, Teached by Foreman Antonio Lopez, right, how to pack a box of strawberries he chose with Santa Maria in 2013.

The experience was heard, straightforward, caused. He worked with three dozen Mexican migrants who “bent at nearly 90-degree angles, using both hands in plastic vessels that they rejected non-round cargo.”

He could not keep other pickers, and at lunch, Hector wrote, he was sick and tired. He only lasted more than seven hours, and then “surrendered.”

Many thousands of California migrants are here for decades. They cannot be easily replaced. “They were skilled workers and their families about our little countryside communities,” Cunha told me. “My farmers fit a worker who can work. They will be given a job authorization card.”

Just a few years ago, during the Covid-19 pandemic, Cunha recalled, the country gathered in praise of the farmers. “Everyone said they The most important workers in line in line. Every worker puts their lives in line to feed the world, and now we can’t give them a small piece of legal pieces here? “

Rollins claim that overseers are working “leading to automation” as useful as the born Americans will go to the field.

“As with automation,” a San Joaquin Valley told me, “no automation.” He did not want him to use his name because he was afraid to call his farm, where workers today reap.

“If I could replace 20 people with machines,” he said, “I’ll do.”

But melons, strawberries and fruits of wood can be gentle. (“If you look at an apricot in the wrong way, it’s brown brown,” Cunha hanged.)

Farmers can use machines to harvest like tomatoes destined for a canny, for example. But when it comes to fresh fruits and vegetables, the grower told me, “American consumer wants perfect and unbearable human hands.”

We are in this momentary time because the Brand of President Trump’s authority is not compatible with good faith efforts to find a good solution to our dysfunctional immigration system.

If part of agriculture, hospitality and construction, income REQUIREMENTS Immigrant staff, most of them come from Mexico. Our economy doesn’t work without them. As I looked, attacks happened to the home fields and home parking was a state-sponsored form of terrorism, which was intended to install fear and terror of the hardworking communities. They have no carry on Trump’s campaign promise to prevent violent criminals.

In May, a group of bipartisan lawmakers at home, including rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San José), offers a new version of Modernization ACT in field modernization, A comprehensive immigration and labor bill to offer a path to legalization for some farmers, will change H-2A funds to verify for all workers. Similar bills passed at home in 2019 and 2021 but died in the Senate in the hands of immigration critics. At this time, Lofgren said That the Senate should take it first, as his California companion, rep. Tom McClinttock (R-Elk Grove), chuirs in home immigration, not supported. Don’t take away.

In Trump’s world, there is no appetite for real immigration solutions. As many have noticed, the President and his supporters glorify its violent theater – the pictures of the mask, armed men who fear people in the streets and fields. They have no downside to bully.

They may again change when plants rot in the fields, the hotel rooms will remain unclean and construction sites have been stopped. One day, the bill for this foolish comes.

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