ICE agents chase after farmworkers as they flee fields during latest raid in Ventura County
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) targeted workers on produce farms in Ventura County Tuesday morning in one of the latest raids in Southern California.
These complete morons will not have food if these people do not pick the food.
Gaza is the testing grounds for what life is about to be like in the West. Starvation will be used as a weapon eventually, and who's gonna stop them?
They can't really do that in America, there's too much land and room and food. They could temporarily trap a population within a city by surrounding it with some barricades and stuff but that won't last long. The population size of the US has a massive ratio of more citizens than law enforcement and military. They can't take us all.
For someone like me, if the food supplies were all cut off I could just live off of the land by hunting, fishing, and farming.
training with the IDF, and using PALINTR by the leo to track people down.
Jokes on them I've been dealing with food scarcity for most my life. I forsge more than I shop.
The problem is most don't and it's not a sustainable practice for a large sedentary group.
Biting the hand that feeds you is a bold move
They are not paid to think.
The "poors" wont have food. Not once will they ever consider that the poors provide them with their treats and they will wake up one day and be told there are no treats.
Maybe they need to get off their obese behinds and get agricultural jobs.
Like some sort of... (I cant even think of the right slur)!?
How dare you suggest that! Im white!
No but see i can just pay more and have food.
How much does an ICE agent make?
Does a government job pay well enough that they can afford their grocery bill doubling? I have a government job, and I’m thinking of leaving to start my own thing, because I can anticipate that we’re not going to be able to afford to eat for much longer. The selection of produce in stores is already getting worse.
Any wonder why this is happening in Ventura county and not Florida?
Because Trump and co specifically hate California and know there will be pushback. They want pushback. They want to escalate it to violence to justify the violence they are already inflicting.
Yeah but who got in trouble for hiring them? Did the farm owner run?
That's how you know this is all political bull shit. If they actually wanted to solve the "problem" in a much easier, more efficient way, then they would just go after the people that hire them.
Farm owner likely voted for this.
Owner called up ICE because he heard the word "union"
Dumb moron is probably the one who called ICE
Surely this will decrease food prices /s
This at the same time maga is calling for a boycott of walmart. They just keep punching themselves in the face.
We've already seen the ghost of Christmas future here, it's when Georgia implemented their live scan law and all the small and mid size farmers in Georgia lost their whole harvest (and subsequently, the farm) because they just couldn't get Americans to come and pick for what they're willing to pay. A lot of these farmers voted and stumped for Trump, believing that certainly the face eating leopard who eats everyone's face and promises to eat everyone's face wouldn't eat their face. Get ready for a lot of "waaahhh, I didn't think he would hurt meeeeeeee" from these guys as millions of pounds of tomatoes rot on the vine this summer.
Also, this just fucking sucks. I live in the central valley, ag is a really big deal here, and a lot of ag workers are really hard-working stand up folks. Nobody deserves ICE, but these folks especially don't deserve it. I'd like to take this opportunity to wish ICE agents a very merry court date ASAP.
I wish these assholes rapid lead poisoning.
Second to that, a careful and thorough rout of them all, prosecuted heavily and drained of any assets by their victims for violating due process.
And the bankrupt farms will be bought up en-masse by corporations owned by Gates and other billionaires who will "make a deal" to let them get away with slave immigrant labor. It's part of the plan.
"They're just taking innocent people who are trying to build their own American Dream," said Daniel Larios with the UFW Foundation. "This is not law enforcement. It's a campaign of fear against people whose only 'crime' is living and working in the U.S."
When everything is illegal, nothing is illegal.
Doesn't mean people won't suffer, but when people have nothing to lose and everything to gain and will suffer regardless, then what?
but my chains are the only thing i have left ;-;
Ah yes, the dangerous criminals that are out farming for slave wages. Good job ICE. I'm assuming that ICE is going to punish the farmer that employed these dangerous criminals? ICE has entirely lost the fucking plot...
I can't wait for those MAGAS to finally get those lost jobs, and go pick up fruits and veggies for * check notes * 2 dollar an hour!
Surely we'll see republicans back to the farms, any moment from now
The plot is to make people angry enough where they do something worthy of getting black bagged. The US government wants people to act irrationally.
lost the fucking plot
Oh they never had it to begin with. They were always just nazis, but now the leash is off. Even worse, they're being pushed to fill quotas, which incentivizes recklessness and cruelty.
Yet Americans belong to their many denominations of a imperialist death cult of toxic positive optimism. We are cooked. No party will save us. Life is about to become impossible.
May every raid these fucks try to do be in the afternoon heat in full gear, with a raging hangover.
Like the scene in Andor. That series was very on point when it comes to the political landscape in the US today.
Almost like authors and artists have been warning us since the beginning of time
Babylon 5.
Which episode did B5 ever have farm workers running from Stasi? That said, B5 was on the nose with political commentary, they didn’t mask it much.
also like the BOYz.
Every day I get news about the gestapo capturing the enemies of the reich and throwing them in box cars, and I hear nothing about citizens doing anything to stop them.
There are protests and people mobbing ice agents and standing in front of the boxcars and stuff. In LA/Paramount there were enough that they shit their pants and called daddy for backup. It’s not really possible for these remote farming communities to have mobs of people overwhelming ice because there just aren’t that many people in the middle of nowhere farms.
If you haven’t heard about any resistance activity I strongly recommend you reconsider how and where you consume media.
100% this. There's been resistance everywhere over this. Minnesota drove out a bunch of ICE agents from their neighborhoods, there's been major protests all over the US about it. Like... we're for sure doing it.
ICE is sneaking around the back roads in my city, and a local network sends out warning messages to local immigrants. I'm looking into what I can do as a citizen to make it more difficult for ICE, but I'm impressed by the messaging network that has been set up.
It's a big country and unless the protesters have someway of knowing where the raids would happen before hand, you wont see them there. That's why you see them(or don't if the media is suppressing the story) at the detention centers or hotels they're staying at.
Because American voted for this, and many racists on the left used every excuse in the book to not vote for a black woman
I’m at a point now where I can’t wait for this all to blow up. Literally and figuratively.
Going after our farm workers is not going to end well for anyone. I can only hope that someone in power will wake up and do something about it.
They just need to make them prisoners and then they will be able to get back to working in the fields again.
The people in power all see this as an absolute win. The things they're trying to do about it is hire more ICE agents. It's going to take a while before this blows up, and the only real way out of it is to hope that we have elections in a few years.
Actual footage from the attempt
Does this mean that the Big Beautiful Bill is all a lie and they're secretly funding and building a super weapon to destroy the planet?
America is about to be really "healthy."
food is going to get so fucking expensive...
like eggs, we're heading toward a produce shortage. Our supply of eggs is fine now, but prices are still high. They're gonna do the same thing with produce.
Cool, so we can look forward to empty shelves in grocery stores for domestic products and steep tariffs on foreign food products?
This is such a limp dick country... I fucking hate the USA... Genocidal fascist imperialist shit stain of a country.
Make America Hard Again!
Real Americans don't eat vegetables!
That's why they got so much ass cancer hahahaha
It works out better for them if we are dead, they have what they need to move forward and it doesn't work with us alive.
Oh but your average employment-seeker will totally line up to do that job for slave wages, so it’s all gud. /s
I'm ready for the fat fucks in this country to find out what happens when you bite the hand that feeds you. My misanthropic tendencies grow by the day.
terroristic lettuce pickers probably making less than minimum wage…
That UFW symbol design is going to draw some negative sentiment for the black insignia in a white circle on red flag. Looks like a copy/paste swastika reworked.
White folks who don't understand how words work and vote are going to think ICE are busting field Nazis.
Maybe they could use something centered around farming? Or even better, something highlighting the unity between industrial and agricultural workers?
Yeah, that flag design... Big yikes.
Edit: apparently this is the actual logo; it's hard to find the one that ABC used... Makes me think it was an intentional choice.
Ventura county? Wonder what counties (I mean economy) they’ve targeted in Florida…
Well I guess it’s a good thing gEnOcIdE Joe or Kamala didn’t get elected… that’s OP’s desire…
I mean right now we could have had a democrat admin, but it was clearly more important for OP to instead have an admin that completely abandons the possibility of a 2 state solution, deploys marines to US soil, and targets the safe haven of progressive voters….
All for a political moment that didn’t exist 6 months prior and frankly doesn’t seem to come up 6 months after… the GeNoCiDe crew is really quiet right now as trump does trump and stomps all over what they claim to hold dear…
Good call morons…
