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“We will not have food:” Why South Dakota farmer believes Gov. Kristi Noem won’t implement mass deportations South Dakota diary farmer Greg Moes said he doesn’t know how he’d run the operation without immigrant workers& predicts food would run out in two days w/ mass deportations https://t.co/VEpns4FoZ5
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About half of the workers on the farm are not US-born, and the operation runs 24 hours a day to be profitable. Year-round labor is essential for milk production. Despite supporting Governor Kristine Noem and former President Trump, there's concern about the impact of potential mass roundups of undocumented workers. If such actions were taken, food production could halt within two days, leading to empty shelves. The farmer believes that officials understand the consequences of these policies and expresses trust that they won't follow through with drastic measures.
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Speaker 0: What percentage of your workers are not US born?
Speaker 1: Probably half. About half? Yeah.
Speaker 0: How many hours does this go on?
Speaker 1: It's 24 hours a day. You know, we could milk 8 hours a day, but it wouldn't be feasible or profitable for us to produce milk.
Speaker 0: So you need workers like this year round?
Speaker 1: Yes. Yes.
Speaker 0: Governor Kristine Noam of South Dakota, her farm is just a few miles away. This farmer who voted for her, who voted for Trump, who still supports them, doesn't believe that they would round up immigrants and ask them for their immigration status because it's an open secret that farms in this state are held up by undocumented workers. Are you worried, like some of your other farmers, that if there were a mass roundup of undocumented migrants, that you might lose workers, you might not have enough workers?
Speaker 1: Well, the question I asked, how they what's how are they gonna do that? Within 2 days, we will not have food. There will not be food anywhere.
Speaker 0: 2 days?
Speaker 1: Yes. That that's why I predict nobody will be filling the shelves. Nobody will be producing food. If we once have to shut down and be gone, it's never coming back.
Speaker 0: Does governor Knowham understand that?
Speaker 1: I would think so.
Speaker 0: You have a lot of faith that they're not gonna do what they're saying.
Speaker 1: That's pretty much what I'm saying. We have to, trust in our officials that are put in place.