Trump Labor Sec: Americans Are Willing To Work In The Fields

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Are there lines of US citizens waiting to become strawberry pickers?

By John Amato — July 10, 2025

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer told Fox News that American citizens are willing to do those jobs "illegal migrants are doing" to defend Trump's destruction of Medicaid and his mass deportations by using the Apprenticeship Programs as proof. I don't see "strawberry picking" or any other labor-intensive jobs offered through Apprenticeship, do you?

Earlier today on Fox & Friends First, the network used a figure from the Labor Department touting US-born worker increases that don't shed light on what jobs US-born citizens are taking to support Trump's agenda.

Yet, this fueled the claim that Americans are willing to work backbreaking jobs in the fields for low wages, according to Fox News.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/trump-labor-sec-americans-are-willing-work

He there DeRemer...........do you fucking understand what it takes to be lets say a journeyman carpenter, electrician...........you go through a 4 year apprenticeship program........why may you ask why does it take 4 years.............because everything you do is based on a set of hours....like form work using a transit, level, bench marks and building codes........do you use a transit to make sure the rows of strawberries are in line and at the correct height and have a bench mark at each end of the row..........your a idiot.......since your so smart why don't you get into your green jean overalls and show everyone how to pick strawberries, blueberries, peaches, apples, in your apprenticeship program and then get back to us...............

[rsdsharp]

1. You first, bitch. Lead by example!

[ForgedCrank]

2. Where I

live, yes, absolutely.
A sizeable portion of the farm workers around here are undocumented. I won't pretend to know the numbers because it's not exactly something you ask people, but the farm owners admit that a lot of their cash workers are not documented. There are also a lot of folks around here that could really use those jobs. People who used to earn their living as farm hands have been left without work, or are working for half the wages they were 10-15 years ago.
Also, a lot of the stuff mentioned is done with machinery. I don't want to say most, but a lot of farm hands are general labor, they don't hand pick crops except for smaller operations with niche produce. A large portion of those tend to livestock.
There was a pretty big upset around here last spring when an undocumented farm worker with no drivers license hit a car head-on while driving a sileage truck and it killed a man and his wife. The county jail is also over-spilling with them. Theft and drug problems have gone through the roof, and again, when you see the rolls, the majority of them are undocumented hispanic males. It really is a big problem, at least in my county and the few surrounding. I know quite a few of these folks personally and they are generally really nice and work hard for their money, but the influx has caused really serious crime and economic issues for us.
I know it's not what most will want to hear, but it's the uncomfortable truth.

[tanyev]

3. Name one.

I’ll wait.