[hamdingers]

> "No more strawberries/lettuce/etc when you kick out all the illegals!" has been a rallying cry on lefty social media for the last few years and it... hasn't happened?

Why would it have happened? "All the illegals" have not been kicked out, so what are you basing this statement on?

Bad faith framing.

[crooked-v]

It's already happening, and is part of the reason food prices are going up right now: https://www.newsweek.com/ice-immigration-raids-farms-crops-r...

[sugarpimpdorsey]

And yet I go to the market every week and the shelves are stocked so full they have to throw out or donate the produce that starts to go bad.

That article puts forth the tired trope that "crops are rotting in the fields". If that was true or so extensive as they portray, the shelves would be empty, not simply more expensive. They're not.

[mcphage]

> If that was true or so extensive as they portray, the shelves would be empty, not simply more expensive. They're not.

When chickens were being culled because of the bird flu, the supply of eggs dropped significantly. Prices of eggs also rose significantly. As a result, shelves were often full of eggs that were priced so high that they weren’t being bought as often. Production dropped, prices rose, demand dropped, surplus remained fairly constant.