'People aren't going to work': A surprising immigration raid set off fears in California farm country

‘If this is the new normal, this is absolute economic devastation,’ says local economist.

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Prediction time: The American agriculture industry and their bribed pet politicians will float the idea of using undocumented-immigrant detainees as prison labour for farms.
- They probably already do that, but yeah, that's the only end result I can see for this (other than the collapse of the American agricultural industry)
  
  I'll make a further prediction. Those immigrants will be given a choice: voluntarily leave permanently, or stay and work for N number of years to "earn their residency". And then the "voluntarily leave" process will be slowly gutted of resources to process those applications in a timely way. The end result will be massive numbers of people who are technically allowed to leave the US whenever they want, but in practice each immigrant will be picking crops at no cost to the agriculture industry for years. Including their kids "of working age".
- https://bittmanproject.com/the-unseen-role-of-prisons-in-our-food-system/

the reverse Dullesification of the capital class and the MIC, these fools don’t make the kool aid but they do drink it by the gallon
- I've been searching for a word to describe this exact phenomenon. These people are children of the Cold War, and all the propaganda lives in their head, but none of the underlying politics that the propaganda was masking. They're reacting to the shadows of their predecessors.
  
  In his biography, William Herst (newspaper mogul) talked about this exact phenomena within newspapers and editorial staff. Basically, people who believed the lies you told would come work for the newspaper and within a generation the entire newspaper wouldn't even know they were telling lies, which (according to him) was incredibly dangerous because then you aren't controlling the narrative, the narrative is controlling you and you are unable to adapt and change the narrative to suit the market.
  He basically said most of his job was trying to get his editorial staff to understand that they were shaping a changing narrative, not reporting truth (because he believed getting actual truth is borderline impossible, therefore not the job of a newspaper).

: “I employ strictly undocumented immigrants so if they ever complain I can sic ICE on them AND I boost the numbers of the reserve army or labor!”
: “This is an outrage! They should use prisoners so they don’t have to pay them at all! Stupid porky, you’re just leaving money on the table!”

“You are talking about a recession-level event if this is the new long-term norm,” he said.
more like depression-level, like people are gonna refer to Laken-Riley the way we talk about Smoot-Hawley