Trump Can't Decide If Migrant Farm Worker Industry Is Worthy Sacrifice For His Mass Deportation Agenda

Originally published at: Trump Can’t Decide If Migrant Farm Worker Industry Is Worthy Sacrifice For His Mass Deportation Agenda - TPM – Talking Points Memo

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. President Trump’s constant flip-flopping on whether to upend the agriculture and hospitality industries in the country for the sake of following through on his haphazard mass deportation agenda reveal one aspect of what his immigration…

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Frist in line

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Pam Bondi Fires Three January 6 Prosecutors with No Explanation

Being January 6 prosecutors IS the explanation

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There seems to be little rhyme or reason to SCOTUS rulings these days.

But the Supreme Court rejected that argument. Writing for the six-member court majority, Justice Elena Kagan said Congress’s delegation to the FCC didn’t violate the Constitution.

Of course -
Justices Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented from the ruling.

At the center of the case is Article I, Section I of the Constitution which reads “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States…”

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President Trump’s constant flip-flopping on whether to upend the agriculture and hospitality industries in the country for the sake of following through on his haphazard mass deportation

Yeah, who needs agriculture to eat anyhow?

You really don’t need lettuce on your Big Mac.

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That green stuff is lettuce?

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From Morning Memo

“President Trump’s constant flip-flopping on whether to upend the agriculture and hospitality industries in the country for the sake of following through on his haphazard mass deportation agenda reveals one aspect of what his immigration policies have, in part, always been about: punishing blue cities and states.”
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Mess with something as basic as agriculture and watch folk get pissed off donnie. Your “blue state gripe” is toddler worthy. Your racism, trump, is sickening.

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Lettuce + fecal coliform bacteria.

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I posted this yesterday about the farm workers - and other food chain workers as well

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Finally, it’s going to be exposed! Millions of people are turning down good paying jobs, ones that offer a full spectrum of medical benefits and retirement options. All so they can sit at home and watch TV, drink beer and smoke dope. I just knew it!!

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Details…details…

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I assume these people have employment contracts which say they can only be fired for cause. Am I wrong?

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We’re going to need more gatherings like the one in Budapest to keep the fascists at bay – here and overseas.

I’m hoping it’s going to be 1989 all over again, but things are seldom that easy in history. Even that only looks inevitable in retrospect.

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Being fired by the Dump Administration is a badge of honor.

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President Trump’s constant flip-flopping on whether to upend the agriculture and hospitality industries in the country for the sake of following through on his haphazard mass deportation agenda reveals one aspect of what his immigration policies have, in part, always been about: punishing blue cities and states.

It seems to me that Donnie’s ‘retribution’ was, in effect, always meant to be a declaration of war on Democratic America.

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Trump Can’t Decide If Migrant Farm Worker Industry Is Worthy Sacrifice For His Mass Deportation Agenda

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I’d prefer that trump be deported. His mum was Scottish and dad 2nd generation German. Donnie was an anchor baby.

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Meanwhile In Punditland!

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Does the patty count as beef?

Immigration raids spread to agriculture as meat plant targeted

They have targeted multiple meat processing plants.

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Let us recall that the hamburger patty itself is an “agricultural product.”

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Re: Florida Farmers Plowing Under Perfectly Good Tomatoes

Because it’s nothing but money to them. “Food”? You’re kidding me.

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