'Farms will vanish': Cherry farms become ghost towns amid Trump's ICE crackdown

[turbinetree]

By Daniel Hampton
Published June 19, 2025 8:31 PM ET

Cherry growers say they're seeing a severe labor shortage amid President Donald Trump's nationwide immigration crackdown, leading to a massive shortage of berries.

A grower in the Mattawa, Washington, area lost about 300 bins — each weighing at least 350 pounds, horticulturist Erik Zavala told area told The Spokesman-Review in a report published this week.

“People watch the news,” Zavala said, referring to masked federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detaining people as part of Trump's ramped-up immigration effort. “It’s definitely having an impact."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-farms/

If you are a republican farmer and thought that they were not going to do this...........................well how's that coffee you now smell...........

[hatrack]

1. Grant County WA 2024 General Election: Trump 67.1% Harris 29.8%

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https://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20241105/grant/

Cope, like the rest of us are trying to cope with the results of your bullshit beliefs and bullshit votes and bullshit religion.

Deal with it.

Fuck y'all.

[AZJonnie]

7. Hear, Hear!

[cilla4progress]

2. My neighbors, communities and

jurisdiction.

[mn9driver]

3. Again with the FAFO

But the propaganda that shapes their reality will tell them to blame Biden, even while their crops rot on the ground. And most of them will obediently blame Biden.

[RockRaven]

4. Nationwide, 4 out of 5 farmers voted for The Dotard; I'm reserving my pity

for everyone who will be paying higher grocery prices, and have none left for the farmers who destroyed themselves.

[Justice matters.]

9. Next, they will probably line up for bailouts. nt

[newdeal2]

5. Double whammy: tariffs on imports and no one left to farm in the US

All the voters who voted for him to lower prices better throw all the bums out on their asses next year.

[MagickMuffin]

6. Where are ALL the voters who wanted these jobs?

Where are they?

They were told the immigrants were stealing their jobs. Well now those jobs are available.

Where are all those white nationalist?

I’ve been informed they are most excellent at cherry picking details. Put those skills to use magaloongoons.

[BidenRocks]

8. One upside to being old

I don't eat as much as I used to.
Fast food is expensive junk.
Home cooking with a flexible menu. If it's on sale, it's on the menu.