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Mr. Trump’s immigration policies could transform California’s Central Valley, a stretch of lowlands that extends from Sacramento to Bakersfield. Approximately 70 percent of all farmworkers here are living in the United States illegally, according to researchers at University of California, Davis. The impact could reverberate throughout the valley’s precarious economy, where agriculture is by far the largest industry. With 6.5 million people living in the valley, the fields in this state bring in $35 billion a year and provide more of the nation’s food than any other state.
The consequences of a smaller immigrant work force would ripple not just through the orchards and dairies, but also to locally owned businesses, restaurants, schools and even seemingly unrelated industries, like the insurance market.
Many here feel vindicated by the election, and signs declaring “Vote to make America great again” still dot the highways. But in conversations with nearly a dozen farmers, most of whom voted for Mr. Trump, each acknowledged that they relied on workers who provided false documents. And if the administration were to weed out illegal workers, farmers say their businesses would be crippled. Even Republican lawmakers from the region have supported plans that would give farmworkers a path to citizenship.
“If you only have legal labor, certain parts of this industry and this region will not exist,” said Harold McClarty, a fourth-generation farmer in Kingsburg whose operation grows, packs and ships peaches, plums and grapes throughout the country. “If we sent all these people back, it would be a total disaster.”
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Farmers are also anxiously awaiting the administration’s plans to alter longstanding trade agreements. Mr. Trump has said he will pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement if he cannot negotiate better terms for the United States. Growers would benefit if Mr. Trump negotiated more favorable terms. But backing out of the agreement entirely could provoke retaliation from Mexico that would hurt California’s agricultural industry, which earned $21 billion from trade last year.
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“We won, brothers,” Anglin wrote a few hours after Hillary Clinton conceded. “Our Glorious Leader has ascended to God Emperor. Make no mistake about it: we did this. If it were not for us, it wouldn’t have been possible.”
I have been saying all along that people are waaaaay over analyzing this guy. He is basically Tony Soprano and just like most successful, ambitious Urban New Yorker assholes, dime a dozen. And yes, I used to live in South Florida too so I know.
yeah i hate to sound like an a-hole pointing out other a-holes
there seems to be a mystery as to why people would vote for trump or support his policies
first if you observe or understand that most people are willing or conditioned to suspend logic and reason on a partisan basis
then it becomes pretty clear or fairly easy to understand
trump's diplomacy is very abrasive, very direct and very confrontational
it's part of his negotiating style
a lot of people want a nice story
it's easier to tolerate bad policy when it is dressed up in vague language
most politicians would say they're going to reach out to big pharma and implement a long term strategy to reduce prices and improve availability
trump says they're getting away with murder and he's going to do whatever edit:
