Do you MAGA morons have any clue what your boy is doing and how we’re all gonna PAY for it?

 California is by far the largest food producer in the United States. In 2023, our state’s agricultural economy was worth nearly $60 billion. The state’s roughly 63,000 farms grow over a third of all vegetables and around three-quarters of the fruits and nuts produced nationwide.

This bounty all depends on a reliable, skilled and experienced labor force that is overwhelmingly made up of immigrants: Over 80 percent of California’s hired farmworkers surveyed between 2015 and 2019 were from Mexico, and more than half were undocumented. Nationwide, an estimated 80 percent of farmworkers were born outside of the United States, and around half are undocumented.

These immigrants are nothing less than the backbone of America’s food supply, doing jobs that few native-born Americans seek. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids targeting them now will have real consequences for all Americans, including higher grocery prices and fewer options in the produce aisle.

Scaring immigrant farmworkers and depleting the agricultural work force will weaken an industry that has been one of our nation’s strengths since its founding.

These workers are not strangers, and they’re not a burden on California or the nation. They are part of the fabric of our communities. Many have lived and worked here for decades, doing the jobs that others don’t want and won’t do..

And then there’s the tariffs on imported food.

Thanks a bunch, you idiots(R).