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haele

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46. Thing is, maybe only 10% are really undocumented

Fri Jul 11, 2025, 09:39 AM

Jul 11

I used to live in Oxnard. Most of the pickers and farm.laborers from Central America are here on H2-A and others here on Humanitarian Amnesty Visas that allow.them to work.
There's thriving under the table visa based sub-contract labor businesses moving migrant and refugee farm and construction workers around - many of these businesses are run by people associated with Customs and Border Patrol, getting notified when one of those "caravans" come up through Mexico and meeting their contacts who had been recruiting likely seasonal workers that could easily qualify for a visa to work, if they hadn't already applied before the migration started.
The whole border problem is a scam of immense proportions.
Living in a border town, it's been obvious just observing the migration situation that a good 3/4 of "undocumented" border crossers or amnesty seekers have sponsors here in the US that will help them find housing and work once they get to the border and enter the system.

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HAPPENING NOW: ICE agents raid Ventura County Farm in California. Reporter: "It's gonna be at least 100 workers being d [View all] riversedge Jul 10 OP

How fucking stupid is ICE Barbie? Jilly_in_VA Jul 10 #1

Maybe their rich corporate buddies want to buy bankrupt farms/land awesomerwb1 Jul 10 #9

Trump hates CA and is probably trying to devastate our economy FoggyLake Jul 10 #25

Only the people he is kicking in the balls Johonny Jul 10 #35

BINGO! fields in Ventura County are some of the most productive in the US, possibly the world. Attilatheblond Jul 10 #30

Bingo Bango Bongo! BoRaGard Jul 11 #51

They think "able bodied" lazy Medicaid recipients will take the jobs mcar Jul 10 #18

Also, pretty sure most Medicaid recipients are not withing reasonable commuting distance from farms. Attilatheblond Jul 10 #31

Good point mcar Jul 11 #43

Its not like heath insurance comes with these jobs Johonny Jul 10 #36

I believe Walmart deliberately keeps employees mcar Jul 11 #44

🚨🇺🇸#BREAKING NEWS ⚠️ Multiple Sikorsky Black Hawks have arrived and our landing in Camarillo in Ventura, California riversedge Jul 10 #2

T-rump is probably gleeful and having his goons installing those "special" showers just like they had in Poland in 1945. wcmagumba Jul 10 #3

Yep, just another day in kacekwl Jul 10 #13

Children, protesters. ets running from tear gas.......... riversedge Jul 10 #4

ICE shoot "less than lethal" bullets & tear gas canisters into crowd--of unarmed civilians who were filming them. riversedge Jul 10 #5

Seems like CNN, MSNBC should be covering this senseandsensibility Jul 10 #7

Jake Soboroff covers Los Angeles briliantly, which is a huge territory. He makes it out to other SoCal areas... Hekate Jul 10 #41

... A large percentage of strawberries and other fresh foods shipped throughout the country are grown and harvested here riversedge Jul 10 #6

More video footage from local news reports.👇 Reporter: "It appeared very peaceful until just a few riversedge Jul 10 #8

One of these raids Jilly_in_VA Jul 10 #10

More like desparate farmers packing heat, facing bankruptcy. Norrrm Jul 10 #15

Protesters should jam the roads with cars - create a traffic jam. jmbar2 Jul 10 #11

They did FHRRK Jul 10 #28

Excellent!! jmbar2 Jul 10 #40

A cannabis farm in Carpinteria was also raided this morning, resulting in a large protest AntiFascist Jul 10 #12

thanks for providing a source that's not fucking twitter. uncle ray Jul 11 #49

TSF will cause food shortages and try to ruin California's economy..he can't be outdone by a Democrat Deuxcents Jul 10 #14

Agreed. California is the test case for using the military for the coup. It's sick, & I live here in Ventura Hekate Jul 10 #42

Any arrests of those who hire the 'illegals'/undocs? Norrrm Jul 10 #16

Never. travelingthrulife Jul 11 #45

Looks like TACO Trump is chickening out on his amnesty proposal for farm workers. sop Jul 10 #17

My head is going to explode... that we can't stop this.... and it's going to get worse... IcyPeas Jul 10 #19

I'm also truly disturbed by these events. Mike 03 Jul 10 #27

The DOGE boys and Musk activities gives them the data to find these people travelingthrulife Jul 11 #47

"What's happening in Trump's America?" Trump's Fascist America?? B.See Jul 10 #20

Miller speak easy Jul 10 #21

Yep. LoisB Jul 10 #24

Off to Alligator Auschwitz with 'em William Seger Jul 10 #26

he embodies the banality of evil DBoon Jul 10 #37

I'm starting to hate every idiot who voted for Trump. Beacool Jul 10 #22

Will the employer face any consequences for employing hundreds of undocumented people? Because if not, Scrivener7 Jul 10 #23

I'm not so sure the farm owner will be able to keep finding immigrants MadameButterfly Jul 10 #39

And providing cheap labor for farmers and other industries. travelingthrulife Jul 11 #48

Not true Cirsium Jul 11 #52

Way to miss the point! Did you miss the quotes around "problem"? Or did you not understand what that means? Scrivener7 Jul 11 #55

I guess so Cirsium Jul 12 #56

I'm saying that if they ACTUALLY had a problem with illegal immigration, they could easily end it by prosecuting Scrivener7 Jul 12 #57

Got it Cirsium Jul 12 #58

There needs to be an organized response, protests against the people responsible for the fascists, big money ImNotGod Jul 10 #29

He's trying Kali999 Jul 10 #32

Are they arresting the owners of the farm Beachnutt Jul 10 #33

Thing is, maybe only 10% are really undocumented haele Jul 11 #46

Secession is always an option BidenRocks Jul 10 #34

TACO MissouriDem47 Jul 10 #38

G.O.P. is fixing to starve the American people BoRaGard Jul 11 #50

Was this the marijuana grow? purple_haze Jul 11 #53

That farm didn't pay Trump his tribute. yardwork Jul 11 #54

Countdown Gestapo raids in to Kern and San Joaquin Counties ? And then Central Valleys. msfiddlestix Jul 12 #59