Stop the madness

There is no going back to the 1960s, when everyone, no matter the color of their skin, young or old, bent over to harvest crops, and there was no shame in taking on physically demanding jobs.

For centuries, Mexicans have gone out into the fields to harvest, cleaned up after dairy cows, prepped food in restaurants, cleaned toilets/more in hotels or homes, and worked at construction sites in hotter-than-Hell conditions.

Trump’s Assistant Chief of Staff Steven Miller stopped POTUS from having a heartfelt moment recently when a dairy owner lost his workers in an ICE raid and publicly stated that Mexicans work hard and show up, unlike other workers he hires. Don’t expect the federal prison population to take over jobs mentioned, as there are laws in place to prevent that from happening. Robots would trip and break apart in a field of produce, and prototypes prove that to be true.

Let’s face it, the continued deportations of hard-working Mexicans will hit our country with fields of dried up fruit/vegetables, more expensive hotel rooms/menus, and the list goes on. Oh, don’t forget tariffs, soon to be implemented, which will be just another huge expense to all hard-working classes. The very rich can handle this; most of us will suffer.

– Sally Florence, Durango