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[–] 31 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Red states learning or will be learning a lesson about this real quick when they can't find the slave wage labor to pick their crops because they deported imprisoned them.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Prisoners in the US are effectively slaves also I thought?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago

    Depends on the state. Some states allow for forced prison labor. Most 'only' allow for 'voluntary' and underpaid prison labor. California, the largest state by population, still allows for forced prison labor.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Prisoners are not skilled agricultural workers.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Other possible non-skilled ag tasks could include picking fruit/vegetables, milking cows/goats, feeding animals, cleaning animal pens, working with bales…idk there’s just a lot of things they can do with very little skill or experience. Lots of menial tasks.

    For many crops, picking fruit, for example, is an immensely skill-oriented task in order to do it fast enough to be profitable.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Hence when they are "migrant" workers who keep making their way north all harvest season to keep harvesting the crops as they become ready. A lot of fruits have a narrow harvest window of just a few days, and you can't wait around for a bunch of novices try to figure out how to harvest them.

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