... once we get Trump back let's support/encourage somehow those farmers from South Africa or the Netherlands or wherever to come to the US to farm. We have the land. These would be like-minded people with similar values, the kind of immigrants we need and want. People focus on education and technical skills but farming should be one of the most in demand skills on the planet. Make America the World's Bread Basket Again. MAWBBA
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I'm a little confused by the "we have the land" comment. The US is big but people own that land. 20 years ago my friends bought land in the foothills and spent lots of time clearing it and getting it ready for crops. I don't think there is easily farmable large sections of land that these people could just be given. Sure they work hard but they would have to buy tractors, build barns and dig wells or someone would have to help them out. I don't see why I would give them money instead of young Americans who would like to start out as farmers.
Re-posses the land China and Bill Gates have bought, One third of the country is Federal land, I'm sure some of it would be farmable. I am not suggesting disenfranchising our own farmers, their families or Americans who want to begin farming. I am saying prioritizing these farmers within the Immigration system over all the illegals.
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If you repossess the Chinese farms all the Americans who were working on the land will be unemployed. Then you bring over lots of south Africans who don't know the region. It just sounds problematic.
The illegals in farm areas don't own land and aren't about to. They do simple things for dirt cheap. It would be a lot better if they weren't around but a majority of their jobs would be done by tractors.
With farmers being disenfranchised ... How about we worry about enfranchising ourselves first, and then help them get enfranchised where they are by reforming their gov'ts?
Being the safety valve for everyone else's corruption brought us to where we are now.
I agree with encouraging immigrants to come and work, but I believe there are already a lot of people here and waiting to move here that plan to do that anyways. With the massive illegal immigration, tightening constraints on legal immigration, as well as ridiculous regulations and commands from the Gov (destroy your produce...), we are facing an oppressed farming class crisis, which upon Trumps return, will be able to breathe again (supposedly).
That is always the case. Yes the data always shows there is a massive list of families trying to get paperwork to move to America. Many of them plan to start a life here and take advantage of the opportunity our society USED to afford people willing to work.
Oh, good point. No, not specifically farming, but with the sheer amount of people, and the market being the way it is, as soon as this Marxist madness is put to rest, there are going to be SO MANY opportunities for people willing to work to thrive. And that includes agriculture. There's a lot of work to be done, and lots of workers to do it.
I bet President Trump would love this idea. I wish there was a way to get him thinking on it.
No.
How about they fight to defend their own land?
They are.