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I can't support this vector of mocking what Trump is doing.
What we should be doing is paying whoever is picking our crops a decent wage, undocumented or not. If the wage isn't enough for any citizens or documented immigrants to take the job - that's capitalism at work and wages need to go up.
If prices are going to go up now because there are no undocumented immigrants harvesting for us, then we were already exploiting those people terribly in the first place. (And there really is no if here - I doubt anyone reading this is likely to disagree that we have exploited our undocumented population in this and other areas.)
Whatever the problems are to complain about with Trumps policies, high produce prices due to deportation is not (IMO) one of them. Status quo was already exploitation and unfair labor practices. Let's fix immigration (if we have a country left) when he's done, but let's work on the exploitation, too.
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