Broken Lives, Empty Fields: One Alabama Farmer's Story

Alabama's immigration legislation HB56 has had a drastic impact on the local farming community. When the bill went into effect, K&B Farm owner Brian Cash watched 85% of his workforce disappear in one day as workers fled the state in fear of harassment and discrimination.
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[SantosRegal]

Let's get real, the whole fight here is not because if some 1 gets $10.00, or can make $50.00/hour, the whole thing is about hate, the hate they have that undocumented workers are here in the US, but truth is, WE NEED WORK FORCE in our farms, or we have to import our produce @ a higher price, plus we have to stop exporting our product too, YES...we also sell our produce, so we make money off of that too, I much prefer to have OUR farms make the money, than to have to pay to get it from elsewhere

[SantosRegal]

@gerrilea1 Get real, if you have to get paid $50/hour, your tomato at the local produce store, would at least have to cost you $5.00 Bucks!....If you enjoy today the fact that you can walk out of a Walmart with a basket full of produce for around $20.00 bucks, is cuz hard working people picked them at around $10.00 bucks an hour, cuz at your "dream" salary, the same basket may cost you over $80.00 bucks! So hel no, I am not willing to have to pay over $20.00 bucks for a bowl of soup!

[thorson31]

@XNMR53 Well then go to Mexico and demand that they accept millions of Guatemalans and Belizians. Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-White because people like you only push this 'blended' humanity in White countries.

[XNMR53]

@SantosRegal "Then why don't they?....We tried to hire for the longest times, and we not even have then finish filling up an application, when they're already saying, that they are not willing to relocate, or that is too far from the city, and the ones that do, last half day, demand they're money and leave and never come back,"

More unsupported bullshit from a criminal trying to justify his illegal actions.

[XNMR53]

@thorson31 "Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White."

What is anti-white about saying that there's not a dime's worth of difference between you kkk scum and your counterparts in la raza? Both of you are sub-human trash.

[maryb5287]

@SantosRegal what i wrote was sarcasm.

[fleiva30]

I say lets put all those black welfare fucks to WORK NOW!.. instead of collecting welfare, sec-8, drinking malt liquor and smoking pot all day sitting on their porch..!!

[SantosRegal]

@fleiva30 Why would they?...They already get a check from the government, they don't need to work, the money already rolls in with no efforts at all!

[SantosRegal]

@MsCubacuba Actually Walmart (The biggest distributor of produce in the USA) already started buying from central american countries, just look at their avocados from Mexico, Bananas from Guatemala, Brocoli from Costa Rica and wonder why the price is now higher?

[SantosRegal]

@maryb5287 Then why don't they?....We tried to hire for the longest times, and we not even have then finish filling up an application, when they're already saying, that they are not willing to relocate, or that is too far from the city, and the ones that do, last half day, demand they're money and leave and never come back, they say it is too hard to do, I know it is great money, but americans are not willing to do this job, but some one's got to do it!