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See This Red Area? This Is Sand
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this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2024
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Lol Americans don't do harvesting. I'm from Iowa. They literally ship illegal immigrants in on busses to harvest, I've seen it first hand. Why I'm shocked any farmer would vote Republican, it'll financially destroy most individual farms having to hire legal help
I know this is an issue in a lot of places but they do where I grew up. Farm kid on meth throwing a weighted psych ward chair through a plexiglass window is practically a meme on my unit it happens so often. They have to do the meth to keep up then they wind up psychotic but still with all that muscle mass from the manual labor. It's a gotdamn mess every single time. One of them was in restraints for three months straight.
I have a friend who worked at a farm and she did harvest work at a farm in MA until she moved to a new place and got a job at a flower shop two years ago.
This is one of those things that is probably always going to be anecdotal. Some people will definitely know people who have done the harvesting themselves, and because of the fact that the alternative is illegal, we'll likely never be able to get accurate data on the prevalence of illegal immigrants doing the harvesting.
Oh yes it's absolutely an anecdote. I simply needed to refute a generalization. Every rule has its exceptions.