After Trumps immigration order, anxiety grows in Floridas farm fields

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Rumors about deportation raids started to circulate around the fields again, so Catalina Sanchez and her husband began to calculate the consequences of everything they did.

Cirilo Perez, 36, had to go to work because the tomato crop was getting low, and he needed to pick as much as he could as fast as he could. Sanchez’s medical checkup would have to wait — going to a clinic was too risky. What they fretted most about was what to do with their daughter Miriam — a natural-born citizen in the third grade — who they worried would come home one day to an empty trailer.

“When she leaves, I wonder if it will be the last time I see her,” Sanchez, 26, said on a recent evening.

As President Trump moves to turn the full force of the federal government toward deporting undocumented immigrants, a newfound fear of the future has already cast a pall over the tomato farms and strawberry fields in the largely undocumented migrant communities east of Tampa.

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[Lucinda]

1. ...

[bitterross]

2. Frankly, the best thing that could happen now is mass deportation

No, I'm not advocating it by any means and I think 45* and his ilk are horrible.

What I AM coming to realize though is their actions have to be allowed to have the outrageous and horrible consequences they are bound to have happen before his supports abandon him.

All those patriotic farmers and business people who have been paying paltry wages need to have all their workers deported. They need to be left without a workforce. Their crops need to ruin in the fields. 45* and his supporters need to start seeing the price of fresh produce sky-rocket. They need to see their motel and hotel rooms go uncleaned and therefore not rented out. They need to see all those jobs that no one will take because they are too dirty and too difficult go without a workforce.

They need to see that there is no one in the domestic workforce who wants those jobs. They need to lose money. The day without immigrants didn't make an impact on them. They could just fire the "uppity" ones and get replacements.

Go ahead, deport them 45*. There will be an eventual backlash.