Anybody here from Ventura County, CA?

[PlanetBev]

I’m 15 minutes from Camarillo. All the strawberry, cabbage, lettuce, etc. fields are ghost towns. The workers are scared to death. All our crops are going to turn to shit with no one to pick them, or the cost will be so high that none but the wealthy will be able to afford them. Trump is systematically trying to destroy the California economy.

Hey, asshole Republicans, if California falls, so will the rest of the country.

[Lovie777]

1. All over the country..............

1929 all over again.

[DENVERPOPS]

11. To get a harbinger of what's to come

Read, (Or Re-Read) the Grapes of Wrath..........a day by day description of living in Hoovervilles and the plight of tons of people just trying to get enough food everyday to subsist, And the crime increases.........

[Walleye]

2. Wish we could make these ICE agents pick the strawberries. They would die of exhaustion after the first day.

[ananda]

3. I've been thinking about this.

How soon before grocery shelves start going empty?

[Klarkashton]

4. This is an extremely serious problem that the asshole

Has created.

Years ago they tried these raids and after they couldn't find anybody that could handle that impossibly hard work. They immediately had to stop that shit and create "the guest worker program".
I suppose that either they are too stupid to remember those things or they are so hell bent with blind rage that they don't care.
Nobody is going to go out to those fields now under these circumstances.

[Abolishinist]

5. Calilfornia should impose tariffs on all

produce leaving the state for a red state. We grow it, we should have first dibs on buying it.

Make white trash 'Merca pay for their ignorance. I haven't used that term for a long time, but I've had it with them.

[Hekate]

7. Is that by any chance legal?

[Gaugamela]

12. It would violate the commerce clause of the constitution. I think it's intended as wishful thinking.

[Abolishinist]

22. No, wishful thinking as noted. Just venting.

Living in a state that sends more $ to the feds than we receive back has started to pizz me off recently. Now they are effectively reducing our workforce for products that have enabled us to be in a position to SEND more to the feds in the first place.

Arghhh.

[Hekate]

6. Right here -- plan to be on Victoria Street in front of the County buildings on Saturday...

I hear what was going on from my SIL today. ICE was storming the fields.

[SunSeeker]

10. That video of ICE trampling through misty Ventura County fields to takle a helpless strawberry picker...

So inhumane, pointless and self-defeating.

[SunSeeker]

8. Those farm owners voted for Trump. They thought he'd only deport "criminals."

They deserve all the pain they are about to feel. Too bad we'll feel it too.

[Beaverhausen]

9. You sure about that?

Farmers in a fairly blue area of CA voting for trump?

Do you have proof?

[SunSeeker]

17. California farm owners are predominantly GOP, unlike the California voters as a whole.

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Have you ever driven up the 5 or the 101 through California's farm country? Their fucking MAGA signs are so obnoxious.



California farmers bought Trump’s election pitch. Now they may pay the price
https://www.latimes.com/politics/newsletter/2025-02-10/skelton-monday-politics-newsletter-immigration-politics

[Beaverhausen]

18. Yes I have driven up there many times

But that is not Ventura County.

You are probably right but I guess I just want to believe that some of them realize what this admin is going to do to them.

[SunSeeker]

21. I wish it wasn't true.

But these farm owners for the most part are MAGAts. Check out MineralMan's post #20 below describing them in Ventura County, where he grew up. https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20389691

[DENVERPOPS]

13. All the Trumphumper voters

had eight long years to observe how he operates, then went ahead and voted for him again........

Now many are starting to say they were Sucker Punched and didn't vote for ANY of THIS that he is doing.........Hey you saw how he did things for the first four years, you would have to be a dumb as a rock to not figure out what he was doing.........as soon as anyone or anything out grew it's usefulness they were kicked to the side.....
AND NOW THAT ALL YOU TRUMPHUMPING VOTERS HAVE OUTGROWN YOUR USEFULLNESS, HE DOESN'T NEED ANY OF YOU ANYMORE.......

You grew it, you chew it, munch, munch, munch........right along with all us libtards you hate so much.........

[FirstLight]

14. Shit

And its too late to plant in the yard too ..

Gonna be some hungry angry people

Les Miserables indeed...

[Initech]

15. We have got to kick these fuckers out of the White House.

And then we need to charge them all with conspiring to commit treason.

[Sogo]

16. The shortages are already happening.

I'm in the Midwest, and my natural foods grocer has missed two truckloads of produce this week. It's looking pretty sparce in his produce section....

[ventuckian]

19. Ventura

Yes for a long time. Driving home from work saw a few protesters on one of the Camarillo bridges.

[MineralMan]

20. I grew up in Fillmore, in Ventura County.

Citrus town. What I remember was that the citrus growers hated the immigrants from Mexico. At the same time, they were 90% of the workers who picked the citrus crop when it was ready. So, they resented paying the workers who were those hated immigrants.

It was a serious conflict of perceptions. In the 1950s, when I was in elementary school, the town was about 30% Hispanic. My first grade class was the first one where Anglo and "Mexican" kids went to the same school. That school, when I attended it, was about 80% Hispanic. So, my friends as a kid were mostly those kids. It was a small town, and everyone walked to and from school. After school, I often visited my friends' houses. That's how I learned to speak Spanish, because there was always a non-English speaker in my friends' houses.

The situation remained essentially the same the entire time I lived there. Anglo kids didn't date Hispanic kids. The very idea was anathema to the adults in the community. None of it ever made any sense to me. I graduated from high school there and left that town as soon as I was able to do so. I still had family there, though, so I was in and out of town all of my life from time to time. Not much changed, really.

Today, the Hispanic community outnumbers the Anglo community, at about a 60/40 ratio.. The citrus growers, what few of them are still around, still hate the "Mexicans," but cannot operate without them. Now that they are outnumbered, the prejudices are still alive and active. Now, I have no reason to visit my home town, so I don't go there. My only relatives there are now MAGATs. They haven't gotten any better, but now they're the minority in my home town. I'm pushing 80 years of age, and will probably never go there again.

Such is life in small-town Southern California. I do not miss it one bit.