French news network, France 24, recently put out a report that featured an interview with California farmer Joe Del Bosque, who gave President-elect Donald Trump a stern warning akin to blackmail, concerning his upcoming mass deportation operation, which he claims will deprive farmers of the cheap labor they rely on in order to produce crops for the United States, leading to the agricultural industry passing the cost onto consumers. So what matters to Mr. Del Bosque is not the safety, security, and economic opportunity for his fellow citizens, but the availability of cheap labor that he can take advantage of.
Does anyone else get slaver vibes from that kind of outlook? This is a man who is confessing that he doesn’t care about terrorists coming into the country or cartel members bringing illegal substances into the United States and ruining people’s lives. All that matters is his own bottom line. Can you get any more un-American than that?
“You know, we can’t have deportations here because it would disrupt our food supply for the country. We really don’t think that anybody wants that,” the farmer went on to say on camera according to a new report from The Western Journal.
France 24 then revealed a staggering statistic. The network stated that illegal migrants make up a whopping 44 percent of the agricultural workforce here in America. Del Bosque could have used this moment to talk about how wrong it is to take away opportunities from citizens and instead attempted to blackmail those soon-to-be in power.
“Without our people, our farms will come to a stop,” he commented. “We will not be able to harvest our fruits and vegetables and nuts, and that will interrupt the food chain for Americans. And it would possibly increase food prices tremendously, too.”
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In other words, allow us to maintain our current profits by continuing to employ the cheap labor of illegal immigrants. Otherwise, you will pay the price. The good news, of course, is that the playbook for those who make this argument has never changed.
“[W]ould any sane nation make war on cotton?” Hammond asked his colleagues in a speech delivered on Mar. 4, 1858. “Without firing a gun, without drawing a sword, should they make war on us we could bring the whole world to our feet.” The speech’s full context made clear that when Hammond said “make war,” he meant “attack slavery.” Like most Southern politicians of his day, the senator represented perhaps the most privileged class of men in American history. Speaking of aristocrats in their own minds, then-President Barack Obama visited Del Bosque’s California farm in 2014.
Admittedly, Del Bosque’s comments do not merit quite the scorn now reserved for those of antebellum slavery apologists. The difference, however, is a matter of degrees, not of kind, for the argument is essentially the same.
Sadly, this sort of attitude toward cheap labor is a disease spread throughout modern American institutions, they just don’t make it obvious.
“For instance, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised its employment numbers downward by more than 800,000 jobs for the period between March 2023 and March 2024, a Goldman Sachs economist called the revision ‘erroneous’ and ‘misleading’ because BLS’s methodology did not account for strong job growth among illegal immigrants,” the report then added.
Thankfully, President-elect Donald Trump is a man of integrity who believes in putting his own nation and its needs first. We’ll have someone in charge who boots out illegal migrants stealing jobs from American citizens and allow us to finally get back to clearing a path for folks who want to work hard to make their way up in the world.
And our nation will be more secure. That sounds like winning.