• Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    13 days ago

    The administration is apparently so bereft of solutions that, a day earlier, Rollins bizarrely suggested that nonworking able-bodied Medicaid recipients (a cohort whose size she severely overstated) will replace deported farmworkers, toiling in fields to meet Medicaid work requirements that will be implemented under Trump’s budget.

    They so intend to replace foreign workers with an internal slave labour pool.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    TL;DR buckle up for some fun food insecurity issues that will start showing up in the US in the coming months.

    Remember: at any given moment, all of society is nine missed meals away from complete anarchy.

  • Laser@feddit.org
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    It’s just unfortunate that this BS is the way society is forced to realize that agriculture is built on exploitation, this isn’t meant to be a “both sides” moment but neither Reps nor Dems ever really cared about this. It was just always hypocritical to hate on the undocumented while relying on them

    However, we all know that this administration will find the worst and inhumane way to deal with the situation.

  • Amani@lemmy.today
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    Don’t worry guys, GOP politicians already have a solution that will save the day: cancer patients will be forced to pick the vegetables in order to keep their medical insurance, in a scenario that would be deemed too on the nose for dystopic fiction 20 years ago.

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    Its OK. In just a few more weeks we won’t need migrants to pick anything. Better they stay in the countries we’ll be buying food from.