The Trump administration said that its immigration crackdown is hurting farmers and risking higher food prices for Americans by cutting off agriculture’s labor supply.
The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that “the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens” is threatening “the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.”
“Unless the Department acts immediately to provide a source of stable and lawful labor, this threat will grow,” with increased funding for immigration enforcement from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Labor Department said in the Federal Register, which is the place where all proposed rules are recorded for the public to view and comment.
Also, contradicting comments made by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins that the U.S. farm workforce will become “100 percent American” as an effect of mass deportations, the Labor Department noted that Americans are not willing to step into farm work and lack the skills to fill agricultural jobs that undocumented immigrants are abandoning.
“The Department concludes that qualified and eligible U.S. workers will not make themselves available in sufficient numbers,” the agency said.
The WaPo is reporting that the Dept. of Labor quietly published a report showing labor shortages are going to lead to possible food shortages.
So, as this is of paramount importance to everyone Left and Right for reasons that transcend such labels:
Why haven’t The Mediums been all over this? Food shortages? That’s even worse than TP and hand sanitizer shortages!
Why would the Department of anything “publish” i.e. make public, anything of this nature? It’s baaaaaaad! Did they actually “publish” it? Or print it and it’s really just an internal document?
In a larger sense, since almost all traditional Government information sources have been closed or undermined, have media nodes come up with a plan, method, or protocol to deal with the fact that no government data can be trusted?
When I was controlling airplanes we had a saying: Good information is good. No information is bad. Bad information … is a disaster waiting to happen, immediately precedes a midair collision…. or fill in darkly humored graphic results as the situation suggested.
They can’t claim “Government reports show….” if they also claim you can’t trust the data, unless the default position is: If it makes them look good they’re lying. If it makes them look bad it must be true. Perhaps a good place to start but it’ll have to have something to go on
The WaPo is reporting that the Dept. of Labor quietly published a report showing labor shortages are going to lead to possible food shortages.
Just a minute. This is not to pick on Puck, nor is it being the grammar police, but I just pinged something. “labor shortages are going to lead to possible food shortages”
“are going to lead”. Definite. Inarguable. Statement of something knowable.
” lead to possible food shortages.” “Possible.” Conjecture. Not definite. Not known and possibly not knowable. What is a “possible food shortage” anyway? There is either a shortage or not a shortage. What is the article actually trying to say? Or want us to believe?