Trump s immigration raids ignore a looming global crisis: There just aren t enough workers

Get the Full StoryAs California farmers wonder who will grow and harvest our food, falling birthrates are likely to soon force nations to compete for immigrants.

On Friday, January 10, four men worked quickly in a cold storage facility in Downtown Los Angeles, loading a van with vegetables. The normally chatty crew were nearly silent as they transferred potatoes, carrots, beets, radishes, cabbage, greens, and other produce that they had just trucked in from the fields near Bakersfield. The rest of the ordinarily bustling facility, with 20-some loading docks, was empty.

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