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This is complicated and it's hard to summarize, but here's what I think we all should do:

1. Support small farms by shopping at farmer's markets and/or buying direct. I know it's not always easy to pay the (sometimes) higher cost but know that your money is going to families and fair wages, not corporations. Small farms often do depend on illegal workers but the more you buy from them the better the chance they'll be able to cover their absence or even get them on visas. And - pro tip - there are ways to reduce the costs**
2. Wherever possible, plant your own gardens. Do this collectively to maximize yield for any one individual's effort. Take over unused urban spaces and or find or found community gardens if you don't have space.
3. Let the leopards feast

** 1. Buying direct means a shorter supply chain and thus much fresher produce which is nutritionally denser and lasts longer 2. Buy only what's in season and what farms have more of - they will usually discount 3. Make friends with farms and/or volunteer some time and you will be blessed with free veggies 4. Go right at the end of market and ask for anything vendors want to get rid of - there are almost always things that won't keep and which they'll sell for much less or even give away.

Oh wait. You're serious? Let me laugh even harder.

Well, they could pay for the process (and probably make a few donations to speed it up) to make these workers citizens.

Nope. Them and H1B ... as much as I hate it... time to pay the piper.

U.S. Representative John Duarte, a Republican and fourth-generation farmer in California's Central Valley, said farms in the area depend on immigrants in the U.S. illegally and that small towns would collapse if those workers were deported. Duarte's congressional seat is one of a handful of close races where a winner has yet to be declared. Duarte said the Trump administration should pledge that immigrant workers in the country for five years or longer with no criminal record will not be targeted and look at avenues to permanent legal status.

Wow, it's almost like when faced with the consequences of your profoundly cruel and destructive rhetoric, suddenly some form of tempered, compassionate approach seems like a good idea. 🙄

Assholes.

Them leopards is hungry for faces

Sorry, no, they steal American jobs and undermine society.

Seriously what is wrong with these people? Are they eight years old?

i hate foreigners and socialism, send me my farm bill subsidy and someone to pick my tomatoes at less than minimum wage

I should not have belly laughed the way I did at this. Have fun having your faces eaten and the face eating party. Unless your lobbyists are able to pay enough for the god kings approval.

The whole point is they want you to cut a "deal" with the right people. Appealing to their conscience isn't going to work.

"The only moral abortion is my abortion".

"The only moral undocumented workers are my undocumented workers"

Notice a pattern here?