{"id":18957,"date":"2025-08-10T12:51:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18957"},"modified":"2025-08-10T12:51:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:51:55","slug":"what-it-will-take-to-get-u-s-citizens-to-work-the-farm-according-to-dolores-huerta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18957","title":{"rendered":"What It Will Take to Get U.S. Citizens to Work the Farm \u2014 According to Dolores Huerta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The Trump administration is now&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/07\/10\/trump-rollins-farmers-immigration-00446160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>struggling to reconcile<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;its mass deportation efforts with the need to keep farm production going. Huerta is not optimistic about how it will all play out, though she was able to poke at Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins\u2019 recent suggestion that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/08\/congress\/rollins-says-able-bodied-medicaid-recipients-should-replace-immigrant-farm-workforce-00442065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>automation will soon replace human laborers<\/u><\/a>. \u201cI guess I could just wait until they get enough robots to do the farm work,\u201d Huerta joked.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/08\/02\/dolores-huerta-farm-raids-immigration-labor-interview-00489203\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/08\/02\/dolores-huerta-farm-raids-immigration-labor-interview-00489203<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Trump administration is now struggling to reconcile its mass deportation efforts with the need to keep farm production going. Huerta is not optimistic about how it will all play out, though she was able to poke at Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins\u2019 recent suggestion that automation will soon replace human laborers. \u201cI guess I could just wait until they get enough robots to do the farm work,\u201d Huerta joked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/08\/02\/dolores-huerta-farm-raids-immigration-labor-interview-00489203<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[225,2108,838,221,995,224,1523,27,1449,170],"class_list":["post-18957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-agriculture","tag-deport","tag-deportation","tag-donald-trump","tag-farm-workers","tag-farmers","tag-farming","tag-farmworker","tag-labor","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18958,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957\/revisions\/18958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}