WPTV is told that some farm workers are already too scared to go to work and are considering leaving the state as new immigration law is set to take effect this summer.
Fraga said the industries that will be most impacted will be the farming industry, construction and hospitality.
Florida will do what Georgia, Louisiana and other parts of the deep south already do for their large scale horticultural sectors: prison labor.
IIRC that worked out pretty terribly in Alabama and other states that tried that: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/14/alabama-immigration-law-workers
As a Hispanic person though the language around farmworkers as a commodity that libs argue they need them around to exploit for cheap vegetables makes me feel....depressed. Like the options in the two parties are either pogrom against farmworkers or continued exploitation and disenfranchisement.
It reminds me of discussion on the homeless where the two options are pogrom against the homeless or continued neglect and abuse.
Alabama may have fucked it up, but the Vidalia onion empire tests comfortably on prison labor. if a capital formation wants it bad enough, the state will make it work.
never forget the rural economy of the south and all it's law enforcement infrastructure was built around forced labor. the civil war was a changing of the guard, not a changing of social relations. today's state run prison farms are often literally old plantations (Angola).
no matter how terribly they are run, they come out ahead because the labor costs of these labor intensive enterprises are made insignificant. they can fuck up every year for decades because brokers can always import from LatAm markets under imperial control.
IIRC that worked out pretty terribly in Alabama and other states that tried that: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/14/alabama-immigration-law-workers
https://www.farmprogress.com/wheat/crops-rot-while-trump-led-immigration-backlash-idles-farm-work-142405
As a Hispanic person though the language around farmworkers as a commodity that libs argue they need them around to exploit for cheap vegetables makes me feel....depressed. Like the options in the two parties are either pogrom against farmworkers or continued exploitation and disenfranchisement.
It reminds me of discussion on the homeless where the two options are pogrom against the homeless or continued neglect and abuse.
Alabama may have fucked it up, but the Vidalia onion empire tests comfortably on prison labor. if a capital formation wants it bad enough, the state will make it work.
never forget the rural economy of the south and all it's law enforcement infrastructure was built around forced labor. the civil war was a changing of the guard, not a changing of social relations. today's state run prison farms are often literally old plantations (Angola).
no matter how terribly they are run, they come out ahead because the labor costs of these labor intensive enterprises are made insignificant. they can fuck up every year for decades because brokers can always import from LatAm markets under imperial control.