by God
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Dear Humans,
Jesus here.
As someone who has always taught inclusion, loving thy neighbor, and supporting marginalized groups, I’ve been deeply concerned about Trump’s mass deportation proposals that he spoke frequently about during his Presidential campaign.
To many in his uninformed and racist voter base, they hear about the proposal and think it’s a great idea.
What they don’t realize is how it’ll affect – among many things – their food supply.
You see, farmers depend on undocumented immigrants to manage their crops, because it’s a grueling job that most Americans don’t want to take. Immigrants, however, are looking for any life they can start in America and are willing to take on the job.
They’re also freakin’ tough-as-nails types of people!
We’re still nearly two months away from Trump returning to office (Sigh), and already, key U.S. agricultural organizations are advocating for the exclusion of farmworkers from mass deportation attempts.
Reuters spoke to numerous farm groups who said they are already working to ensure their workers are exempt from any deportations.
Should Trump’s ‘mass deportation’ idea go through (And let’s be clear: It would be a VERY difficult task – it’s basically his new ‘Build the Wall’ proposal), that would mean that about HALF of the two million farmworkers in the United States would be deported.
It’d be like a Thanos snap – it would have HUGE implications for the American food supply.
When all those workers disappear, the food would disappear too. And if you thought eggs were costly now, just wait until you lose half of your workers who are employed on farms and meat processing plants.
A More Jesus-y Plan
What Trump’s incoming administration should be doing instead of instilling fear in the American people is giving these undocumented migrants a path to citizenship. These people who live in America not only work tough jobs, but they also contribute to the American economy by supporting businesses that they visit. That in turn generates tax revenue for America.
EVERYONE benefits from having immigrants in their country.
In The Parable of the Good Samaritan, I taught that your “neighbor” is not limited to those within the same community or background but extends to anyone in need. I encourage Humans to cross cultural boundaries to show kindness and mercy. (snip)
Love, Jesus
Scottie's Playtime 
FAFO. They are about to reap what they sowed. Unfortunately, it’s going to hurt everyone, not just those who decided their racism was paramount.
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Yes, indeed, I think that principle will definitely be overworked before 47’s admin is finished.
What I like is the farmers staying organized now, trying to protect the food supply. I remember they said plenty about how both deportations and tariffs were going to hurt the public. We the people didn’t get a lot of news coverage of these things, really, and that is where I lay the majority of the blame for many people voting as they did. Which is going to make the frog marches of US news media figures yet another example of FAFO. But I don’t know what they expected. shrug
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I agree. The mass media deserves much blame for where we now find ourselves. Their failure to call out Trump’s lies, their misrepresentation of Harris’ policies AND Trump’s.
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he is for sure NOT a critical thinker…he thinks mass deportations are good, and tariffs are good…both will totally F up the economy for years. Honestly I wish these actions would only hurt his devoted followers, but that is a pipe dream. We will all suffer.
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We will. But, when I find how to help support these farmers, I will post that. I think locally, people’s Farm Bureaus may be able to direct a person for supporting farmers lobbying to protect the food supply and the general economy. We still have plenty of days of free speech left, and DJT has to take that away from us before we should stop using it. I think grocery chains will be lobbying, as well, and yes-pewie stinky big grocery-but wherever we can try to help keep some of these things from happening, I think we should do what we can.
Not nagging anyone here on the thread-I already know we do what we can. But these big organizations can carry weight, and we the people can increase that weight for the greater good.
I know I sound like a hippie.🤣
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good thing I identify as an old Hippie because I totally agree with you.
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