🌾ICE arrests 3,000 farm workers causing $2 billion in crop losses

Agriculture & Rural Affairs
Economy
Immigration

Immigration raids in July 2025 arrested over 3,000 farm workers right as harvest season hit peak. California, Texas, and Florida farmers report $2 billion in crops rotting in fields with nobody to pick them. Food prices will spike 40% while Trump insists "Americans will do these jobs." Spoiler: they won't.

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🚜 California agriculture loses $4.7 billion in rotting crops

Driscoll's reports 40% of strawberry harvest unharvested. Peak season raids target maximum labor demand periods.

💰 Grocery chains posted $47 billion profits in 2024

Walmart and Kroger now blame "supply disruptions" for 67% produce price increases. Immigration enforcement provides perfect cover for margin expansion.

🌾 JBS and Tyson already face labor shortages at 23 plants

Expanded raids into Midwest agriculture could trigger nationwide food crisis by September. Wall Street commodity traders made $890 million betting on scarcity.

📈 Agricultural futures spiked 34% in two weeks

This mirrors 1930s agricultural labor disruptions during Mexican Repatriation. Empty grocery shelves followed within six months in major cities.

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