Esquire Magazine By Ryan Lizza Sep 30, 2018
This wonderful investigative story is mostly about Dairy farmers in Iowa but it pivots around not only rock bottom slave labor practises but the idiocy of Trump's immigration policies that will put them all out of business because of Dairy's absolute dependence on undocumented immigrants. ICE and Trump's immigration agenda are in fact existential threats so inconsistent with their support for Trump himself, (79%) as to boggle the mind.
In a nutshell it shows the breathtaking hypocrisy of the Trump administration and mendacity of California's Rep. Devin Nunes's championing of Trumps agenda even as he paints himself as an authentic no BS family farmer -- mind boggling deception.
I will not take time to report further here but encourage a thorough reading of the original article below. Politically it is obvious that these farmers are on the bottom of a giant agricultural pyramid with all power above them. (The undocumented of course are not even on the pyramid but that is another story.) The farmers' bewildering support for Trump aside, they are nonetheless logical strategic partners in political change precisely because they are on the bottom. Their livelihoods, their families, their town, their legacy of hard work all hang precariously on a political whim with nothing to catch them. After reading you will empathize with their plight.
I told you, it really wasn't about Rep Nunes and the usual spectacle in DC -- it's about people.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23471864/devin-nunes-family-farm-iowa-california/
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