Billionaires like Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Stan Kroenke, Phillip Anschutz, and John Malone have been buying up American farmland from independent farmers and using the H2A Via Program to replace family farmers with immigrants working at minimum-wage levels.
From levernews.com: The H-2A visa program, established in 1986, allows U.S. farm owners to sponsor temporary visas for foreign workers to do seasonal work. The initiative effectively succeeded the Bracero Program, a Mexican guest worker program, which lasted from 1942-1964, and is often cited by historians as an example of the U.S. government encouraging systemic racial discrimination and poor working conditions.
Under the H-2A program, growers must demonstrate to the Labor Department that they “anticipate a shortage of domestic workers” after unsuccessfully attempting to hire through state governments’ workforce agencies. The growers then get certified by immigration authorities to sponsor H-2A visas. Guest workers, often recruited by contractors, apply for matching visas at U.S. embassies and border crossings.
About 90 percent of all H-2A workers come from Mexico. Many live in rural poverty, and many are indigenous: In a 2019 survey conducted by the migrant worker advocacy group Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, 19 percent of Mexican H-2A workers reported speaking a first language other than Spanish.
The billionaires involved in this buying out of independent, family farms to be replaced by corporate farms manned by cheap immigrant labor have ties to both the Democratic and Republican parties and seem, from this writer’s perspective, to show how the two parties have too much in common for the RNC to ever be an effective opposition party to the DNC-CCP.
ED.NOTE: The article quoted from is written with a leftist bias. They point out the billionaire connections to the GOP but fail to cite the connections to the DNC-CCP. The influx of available “immigrants” that enable these billionaires to make these family farm killing moves is entirely due to policies the DNC-CCP supports, a fact this article omits.
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