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John, For all of the time Republicans spend talking about U.S. energy dominance, you’d think they might want us to produce our own food, too.
That’s the first thought I have every time that MAGA lawmakers talk about closing the border and ending immigration.
Between 85 and 90 percent of farm workers in the U.S. are foreign-born. At least half of them are undocumented.
Republicans might argue that those are jobs Americans could be doing, but let’s be honest: Americans don’t want them! The amount of work isn’t worth the pay. And even with so many undocumented immigrants working on our farms, the demand for more agricultural workers grows every year.
John, we already can’t meet demand. Can you even imagine what our grocery shelves will look like if Republicans carry out Trump’s plan for the largest mass deportation program in history? |
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Republicans handed out these signs at the RNC last week. |
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Our food costs would skyrocket. Even if we imported more food products from other countries, the GOP’s tariffs would force food distributors to raise prices to cover the cost of the tariffs!
I’m especially worried for the folks in ID-02. We produce a lot of the country’s dairy right here in my district. What will happen without undocumented labor? How will they possibly get products to market on time and stay afloat? |
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We have to stop demonizing the people we depend on for our food. It’s as simple as that. This isn’t a partisan issue to me. It’s a common sense one.
John, I will use this House seat to protect safe, legal immigration policies and invest in other measures to guarantee access to fresh, healthy produce.
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Rather than kicking out people who are willing to work hard to try and make a better life for their families, we need to create new opportunities for genuine asylum seekers so they don’t have to be undocumented.
The H-2A visa allows workers to come in for temporary work periods, helping ID-02 farmers get their crops to market for a limited time. This system is keeping farms hiring all year round and increasing the unfilled demand for agricultural workers.
We also need to address the threat to our farming posed by investors like Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance.
Vance used his company Narya Capital to invest in AcreTrader, a platform that allows wealthy foreign investors to buy and resell America’s farmland.
Congress should pass legislation to limit foreign purchases of farmland by countries like China, on top of doing more to support American farmers so the land is being used as intended: to feed us.
John, I know this isn’t a sexy or terrifying issue, but this is serious.
Do you know what we need in Congress? Less people who take their investments seriously and more people who take the trip to the grocery store seriously.
We need more people like us in Congress: more moms and dads who watch the screen as the cashier rings up their $8 bag of grapes and cross their fingers that the total won’t surpass the number in our head. (And it always does, doesn’t it?)
Let’s make this the election that keeps democracy safe AND keeps America fed.
-David |
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