None Dare Call It Slavery

Ship all the city dwellers to the country & put them to work picking crops? These fools are either absolutely unaware of the past, or they're deliberately taking a page or two from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. How is this supposed to work? Are they planning (Ha! Planning! It is to laugh.) to put middle-class Americans from cities & suburbs in rotting dormitories & rusting trailers w/ bedbug-filled straw mattresses? Farmworker wages are better than no wages at all, right?

Marcia Brown / Politico:

Ag secretary says able-bodied Medicaid recipients should replace immigrant farm workforce  —  Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said millions of adult Medicaid participants who will face stricter work requirements under the GOP megabill should replace foreign farm workers deported under … 

Leah Douglas / Reuters:   US farm secretary says ‘no amnesty’ for farmworkers from deportation

Phillip M. Bailey / USA Today:   ‘There will be no amnesty’: Ag secretary reiterates no exemptions on immigration relief

Alex Gangitano / The Hill:   Trump says 'there's no amnesty' for migrant farm workers

David Badash / Alternet.org:   ‘Cartoon villains’: Secretary of agriculture under fire for Medicaid-to-farm-work plan

Charlie McCarthy / NewsMax.com:   Secretary Rollins: No Amnesty for Farm Workers

Matthew Rice / New York Sun:   MAGA Influencers, GOP Hardliners Panic Over ‘Amnesty’ Deal Said To Be Under Consideration by Trump White House

Cullen Linebarger / The Gateway Pundit:   Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins Speaks Out as She Reportedly Pushes President Trump to Protect Some Illegal Aliens (VIDEO)

Elizabeth Crisp / The Hill:
Rollins suggests Medicaid recipients can replace deported farmworkers Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:   Trump official kneecaps his pledge to ‘put farmers in charge’ of migrant workers

Tom Wrobleski / Staten Island Advance:   Trump jabs ‘radical right’ with talk of exempting migrant farm, hotel workers from deportation

Alex Griffing / Mediaite:   Top Trump Official Says Americans on Medicaid Should Replace Deported Farm Workers

Robert McCoy / New Republic:   Trump Agriculture Chief Pushes Delusional Plan for Medicaid Recipients

Thought this was a free country, & the Deep State couldn't tell you where to work. When's sharecropping coming back?