NEW: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is working with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on a possible plan to help U.S. farmers by reducing wages for foreign guest workers on American farms. https://t.co/bde2558h69
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) April 10, 2020
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This is how the GOP plans to treat the migrant farmworkers who are making it possible for us to eat. Wow wow wow wow wow wow #coronavirus https://t.co/B8FY1mypgS
— Rinku Sen (@rinkuwrites) April 11, 2020
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Once you acknowledge the plain fact that the U.S. has deliberately engineered — and maintained for over a century — an agricultural system dependent on migrant labor, you see that “the undocumented” aren’t an illicit foreign presence, but a hyper-exploited domestic caste. pic.twitter.com/1Yzvv4qtrL
— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) April 4, 2020
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Farmworkers are on the front lines of this pandemic, ensuring our communities are fed—and the Trump administration wants to reward them by cutting their pay. This is shameful.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 11, 2020
Make no mistake: We will fight for farmworkers with everything we’ve got. https://t.co/1MAdQe4MdG
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Cutting the pay of farmworkers will starve the American people!!!!
— J.D. Scholten (@JDScholten) April 11, 2020
Farmers are struggling, but the answer is NOT to hurt those who are helping farmers. We must prioritize folks on the frontlines, NOT corporations and no-strings-attached industry bailouts. https://t.co/nWFPgKaFli