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> It hasn't happened because no President has been stupid enough to deport them en-masse.

Britain enters the room...

Short-term farm labourers like fruit pickers weren't deported as such after Brexit (I think), and they were earning roughly double the minimum wage, but the jobs were seasonal so many workers spent the winter in their home countries.

After Brexit:

> A shortage of farm workers created by Brexit led to 8,000 tonnes of berries going unpicked last year.

The EU citizens have been replaced by labourers (with the appropriate visas etc) from Asia, but the wages have gone up and the costs of travel.

(I don't know how this affected fruit/vegetable prices. There were other causes of inflation at the same time.)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/14/why-uk-farms... (NB 2022.)