The lack of mentioning that in a story about the economic impacts of this seems like a deliberate choice to garner more sympathy than "I want to pay people $2 an hour to work" might otherwise. (That is a made up number, I did not go dig up the relevant PA pay rates.)
That seems to cover it in the words of one of the farmers. I personally wouldn't consider the article too sympathetic to them.
Except... a bipartisan fixing bill was nuked on Trump's disapproval shortly before the elections, so that immigration and immigrant status could still be an issue at election time.
Farmers followed up by voting to have all immigrants deported quickly after Inauguration Day. That was clearly communicated.
Farmers FAFO again.
He was apparently conditioned to not believe the person he voted for would follow through on his campaign promises.
For example, someone who thinks that doing a lot of labor is a sign of good moral character might think "deport the lazy criminals" sounds reasonable, and ignore the details which suggest that the crime in their mind is "being foreign", leading to surprise when those you thought of as "good people" are being deported.
(None of that removes the responsibility for the consequences of your actions, of course, just that it's not necessarily that they thought he wouldn't follow through, and more that they only remembered what they wanted to hear.)
Lots of black folks left the South and it's not like they were handing out bags of money in New York.
lithos•4mo ago
Which actually can make sense with competition still on illegal workers, and larger scale competition using prison labor.