• Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 months ago

    Some people may wonder what Mexico did during WWII. Thousands marched across the border and maintained farms and ranches. Harvesting food that would be packaged and sent to US troops. Armies travel on their stomach and they helped win the war but were never recognized with a statue.

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    From the article…

    The Federal government estimates that nationwide over 40% of farmworkers are undocumented.

    … and …

    Families he’d worked with for 20 or 30 years were gone from one day to the next. “The government doesn’t seem to care,” he says. “Maybe they think the crops are gonna pick themselves.”

    Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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    So wait - wait. Lemme recap this to see if i got it right.

    Florida republiQans passed a law to repeatedly slam a door on their hand. And now they’re reporting that it hurts?

    Wow. FloridaMan. That’s. Yeah. Well, enjoy that uh . . . whatever it is you got there.

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    7 months ago

    So who will do the shitty hard labor work if there is no undocumented people to do it Sherlock? We don’t want to get dirty…