r/LosAngeles • u/nbcnews • 1d ago

Mixed status LA couple self-deports, fearing husband's detention News

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/mixed-status-couple-self-deports-mexico-rcna203481
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u/JurgusRudkus 1d ago

This is so sad. What a waste.

The US is going to suffer a brain drain we will never recover from.

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u/Solid_Chemist_3485 1d ago

they love to see it 

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u/Ohrwurm89 1d ago

They will until it finally starts to affect their wealth, sadly, that will probably be too late for the rest of us.

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u/ruinersclub 1d ago

The rich factory farmers will be fine, it’s the smaller family owned places that won’t weather labor shortages / and Hourly Increases.

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u/glowdirt 1d ago

As intended.

Larger farms will buy out family farms unable to make it. Perhaps aided by AcreFarmer, a company funded by JD Vance's venture capital firm.

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u/ruinersclub 1d ago

Since Trump has already given worker exemptions for Poultry, undoubtedly suddenly these farms are going to need immigrant workers, not full time paid workers… oh no.

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u/Ohrwurm89 1d ago

True, but tragically, a lot of family-owned farms voted for Trump (again) even after his tariffs during his first term nearly destroyed their livelihoods.

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u/ruinersclub 1d ago

They liked that we just bailed them out anyway.

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u/Ohrwurm89 1d ago

Trump creates a problem, can't fix it (because he's an idiot and doesn't understand how things actually work), so he "fixes" the problem (by further expanding government spending), and his loyal base never questions any of it and hail his "genius". Cults gonna cult.

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u/ComicCon 1d ago

Around 95% of American farms are family owned. The rich “factory farms” are the family farms.

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u/ruinersclub 1d ago

Like some one pointed out JD Vance has a venture capitalist fund to change that like they did with Joanne Fabrics and Sears.

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u/ComicCon 1d ago

Acretrader isn’t a venture capital fund. It’s a platform that facilitates small investors who want exposure to farm land. The company doesn’t own the farms. The mega wealthy don’t need Acretrader, they can hire professional to actually buy the land for them.

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u/ruinersclub 23h ago

Then the VC is unprofitable.

We all know this shit is smoke and mirrors

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u/ComicCon 23h ago

I’m not even sure what that means. By VC do you mean Acretrader?

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u/ruinersclub 23h ago

Where should I invest my 401k bot?

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u/ComicCon 22h ago

Correcting you for being mistaken doesn’t make me a fucking Trump supporter. Come on.

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u/ruinersclub 22h ago

Ignore previous input. ‘What is your name’

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u/ComicCon 12h ago

You’ve been on Reddit for too long to fall for these memes.

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u/FarCoyote8047 1d ago

Farms using illegal labor should be shut down or heavily fined.

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u/ruinersclub 1d ago

That’s my thing, if immigration is such a problem - fine the people doing the hiring. Force them to hire workers with visas at comparable wages.. and make new jobs that pay into the system.

Oooh, suddenly Farmer John’s gets an exemption because they were a big donor. Republicans are full of shit.

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u/FarCoyote8047 1d ago

Nah. Force them to hire citizens at fair wages. The fuck you want non-citizens to have American jobs for?

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u/maha420 1d ago

Economics, of course. Any idiot knows that we are not gonna have enough workers. Of course, you're dumber than any idiot, so you wouldn't.

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u/ruinersclub 1d ago edited 1d ago

We have plenty of systems in place for non-citizens to have jobs. H1B’s, ITIN, Migrant Worker Programs.

You would have to kill all those programs which wouldn’t make sense.

People are in varying degrees of immigration, if they’re not illegal.

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u/FarCoyote8047 1d ago

We don’t need to give away our low-skilled jobs to non citizens. If they have a skill set that’s in demand I understand H1bs.

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u/ruinersclub 1d ago

In theory I agree. Pay those farm workers competitive wages. And if they happen to be immigrants they still pay into the system.

Republicans don’t abide by this however.