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Trump has no plan for who will grow US food: ‘There is just flat out nobody to work’
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Or, hear me out: Prisoners
He’s thinking that’s the same people. In one case, they work hard, but are always living in fear, trying to make a better life, and then deported. In the other, they are given no way to make a better life and forced to work and then deported.
I think the endgame is likely to be a vast expansion of the prison system into all these new facilities that are being built, and then all the back breaking labor that used to be done consensually by migrants for pay is going to start to be done non-consensually by prisoners for nothing.
If some of those prisoners are citizens who spoke out against Trump or attended a protest, then so much the better.
So, slavery
With extra steps
Not all that many
On food? Fam, if I was a prisoner being made to farm food I'd make extra sure to piss and dump on it.
https://bittmanproject.com/the-unseen-role-of-prisons-in-our-food-system/