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Pro-Trump Idaho Farming Town 'Nearly Destroyed' As ICE Raid Leaves Community Without Harvest Workers (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/LeopardsAteMyFace@lemmy.ca
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Nobody in Wilder, Idaho expected this. The tiny farming town of 1,725 people—where nine out of ten voters backed Donald Trump in 2024—is now scrambling to figure out what comes next after federal immigration agents swept through in mid-October and arrested more than 100 Hispanic workers at a local horse racetrack. So far, 75 people have been deported, and the farms that keep this place running are facing a labour shortage with no easy fix in sight.

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[–] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

No that's climate change and hyper integrated global food supply chains you're thinking of.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, theybare pushing Coal again and shitting all over Wind and Solar.

    So....

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Fully agree!

    But IMO regardless there is going to be major global food supply chain interruptions, as industries that take years to decades to mature disappear faster than they can be re-established.

    In my region we have had entire fruit crops destroyed by cold snaps following an unseasonably warm winter. Meaning there was multiple year gaps in output from an entire region.

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