Elle Purrier - St Pierre's farm raided - migrant workers arrested

Clearly all you Trump supporters don’t understand how this works. Who’s gonna do the immigrants jobs? I know you white folk wont … And a lot of immigrants have an ITIN number and pay taxes, just like you and me. I dated an immigrant for years and my Grandparents migrated here decades ago (immigrant or not, I was right to be kind and giving), so I’m aware. A lot of you talking crap down on these people are hella privileged and know nothing about how hard it is to make it or raise a family in countries where resources are scarce and violence is high. Maybe our yourself in their shoes before you open your mouth …

So you're saying that every country needs a Bukele?

The conversation should be about instituting a $20 per hour minimum wage instead of complaining about people not wanting to work for pennies.

Why is it ok to pay anyone $2 an hour in 2025? Why should anyone have to work 70 hours of manual labor per week just to survive?

These farms get millions of dollars in subsidies every year. This family is EXTREMELY WEALTHY - 10,000 acres (15 square miles) and 3000 cows.

Yes, the genius of DJT. Did you see yesterday he announced that egg prices are down 97 or 98% since he took office? He literally said that on camper in his office, and I'm sure you believe that too.

And his attack on higher education...brilliant! Do you think we give Harvard & Michigan $billions in govt. contracts to pay "woke" professors who teach students to hate America? Are you that far in the cult? Or does the $billions go for medical & technological (including defense related) research that keeps America the most innovative country in the world? Now we want to the best minds going to other countries? AMERICA FIRST....to losing status as the biggest superpower in the world.

You probably can raid a random farm and find undocumented immigrants there. Americans don't want to do these jobs

Letsrun is so catastrophically stupid. So many sub-14 -minute Ivy League millionaires here, and the board reads like the vandalism on a bus station bathroom door.

YOU don't understand. How is it "privileged" when American companies REFUSE to pay American workers a living wage?

Millions of Americans get fired every year so their companies can move those jobs to overseas child labor.

Companies bring in millions of illegal immigrants each year just so they don't have to pay Americans $7 an hour.

Is it Americans being greedy to ask for $15 an hour when the median home price is nearly $400,000?

Is it fair for a CEO to make $100 million per year and only pay his employees $7 an hour?

You are one of the 10% fringe idiots if you think 49% of the country are Nazis.

This is spot on. The workers (doing back-breaking work) are basically living in "housing" and being brought to the worksite.

Does anyone in MAGA think we will find a bunch of kids around the US who want to work this hard for $12 an hour and live in a mobile home with 10 other people in Bakersfield, California or rural Idaho?

Who do you think is going to work in those fields?

Elle Purrier St. Pierre grew up in northern Vermont on her parents’
40-cow dairy farm, milking cows before school and haying in the summer.

I also am rather appalled about teaching children about that stuff. Kids are impressionable and peer pressure is huge, with social media probably making it worse and worse.

But on the other hand, I'm not a fan of throwing away huge swaths of disease and climate research, and abandoning soft power & foreign aid, nor of putting so many incompetents in power, or pushing so hard for sycophants instead of experienced leaders in departments and agencies.

But to try to get back onto a relevant subject:

I think that these two posts quoted above capture some important aspects of something that should be addressed, intelligently and without "ad hominem" noise.

This has double the amount of thumbs down to thumbs up. You gotta be kidding. Is LR filled with woke boomers?

So is the plan for farmers to have 10 kids that grow up to tend to the family business?

Some of the posts on here are so illogical it makes no sense.

1) You can vote for Trump and not be MAGA. Think of the reverse, do you think all Dem voters support letting men dominate women's sports and are defund the police supporters?

2) You can be for closed borders but still employ illegal aliens. The reality is if all of your competitors are hiring illegals, you'd be at a major price disadvantage if you don't do so yourself.

It sounds like they had the proper paperworks so it's likely they were using false Socials, etc.

The problem is the country was flooded with illegals. The govt welcomes them, schools them, makes their children instant citizens. As a country, we very well may need a guest worker program.

It shouldn't be on the individual employer to be an expert on who is here illegally and legally. I don't know the status of the Hispanic lady who cleans my house. She's been here for 20+ years so I assume she's legal just like I assumed the black lady who cleaned it before was. But I never asked for SS card.

I'm making it so only registered users can post.

While this thread is very timely and related to a top professional runner a lot of the most-recent comments are more on people just discussing politics. Immigration is closely related to this thread so it is hard to moderate and keep "on topic", but the point of the thread is not for users to insult one another on their politics.

ur dumb

Hahaha, if "the law" was actually being enforced, Trump would be in jail.