LABOR DEPT: "...qualified and eligible U.S. workers will not make themselves available in sufficient numbers.."

[Miles Archer]

Trump's administration just made an "unusual acknowledgement" about its immigration policies, according to a new report Saturday.

In a weekend article called "Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices," the Washington Post reported, "In an unusual acknowledgement, the Labor Department said that tougher immigration enforcement is hurting farmers and the food supply."

"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," according to the Post. "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,” the official document reportedly states. “The Department concludes that qualified and eligible U.S. workers will not make themselves available in sufficient numbers."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-admin-admits-hurting-partners/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. "qualified and eligible U.S. workers will not make themselves available in sufficient numbers."

Yeah that's a good strategy. Blame the workers. What exactly does this mean? Maybe draft them into the Reserve Army of Harvesters and Gleaners? Even though they live 140 miles away in a city or are over the age of 73?

They had no idea these shortages would happen?

[Miles Archer]

5. I'm sure Miller thought it through very carefully (sarcasm smiley goes HERE)

This is Miller's LIFELONG WET DREAM COME TRUE.

Do you remember Paul Ryan, talking about the passage of his Ayn Rand-ian tax cuts for millionaires (erroneously referred to as "The Trump Tax Cuts" simply because he signed them?)...

Ryan claimed he "dreamed about" those tax cuts over "keggers" in college.

Since most of the people Miller knew in school hated his guts, I'm sure he quaffed most of his brewskis alone, but had similar fever dreams of deporting massive numbers of brown people without due process. And now, we're here.

So my direct answer to your question "They had no idea these shortages would happen?" is "Most likely, but they didn't care."

Zealots seldom consider consequences beyond scratching their own itch.

[Hekate]

6. When I first heard trumpistas in the admin saying that kind of barnyard byproduct, I wondered what planet...

…they lived on and in what century. We have not been a primarily rural nation in a century. The idea that unemployed people in this country would leave the cities and suburbs and travel hundreds of miles to pick potatoes in Idaho is ludicrous.

We need to hire workers from rural areas, ie South of the Border, and if we want them to keep coming we have to treat them like human beings, not like rabid animals or like criminals at first sight.

The problem is with America, not Mexico, Argentina, Guatemala…

[quaker bill]

7. Honestly,

for nearly all my life, i had full time work that was physically easier and paid many times more money. So, yes, I would not have been available.

[The Madcap]

2. Slaves

In other words. Kidnapped and forced to toil the fields.

[ananda]

3. This is part of the plan. It's the stage before slavery.

They'll use prisoners and immigration detainees.

And who knows who else....

[AZJonnie]

4. Yup. Theres nothing this regime/cultists would love more than seeing the African American population now incarcerated

out working in the (cotton) fields again, just like in the Good Old Days

I would imagine also able-bodied prisoners in the immigration detention facilities will be offered a "chance to stay in the US" if they drop their court cases and instead "help America out" by working the fields in exchange for "commissary bucks" (commissary services provided by preferred Trump cronies, of course).