"Immigration policy Dozens of raids have not only violated immigrants' human rights and torn families apart: They have jeopardized the national food supply. Farmworkers already work physically hard jobs for low wages. In legitimate fear for their lives and liberty, reports indicate that in some places 70% of people harvesting, processing, and distributing food stopped showing up to work by mid-2025."
"When the Trump administration all but shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development in early 2025, the agency had 500 tons of ready-to-eat, high-energy biscuits worth US$800,000, stored to distribute to starving people around the world who had been displaced by violence or natural disasters. With no staff to distribute the biscuits, they expired while sitting in a warehouse in Dubai. Incinerating the out-of-date biscuits reportedly cost an additional $125,000. An additional 70,000 tons of USAID food aid may also have been destroyed."
More than 47 million Americans lack enough food despite substantial federal and state spending. Up to 40% of U.S. food spoils before consumption, equal to about 120 billion meals—more than twice the meals needed to feed 47 million people three times daily for a year. Immigration raids have violated rights, torn families apart, and disrupted the food supply as reports show roughly 70% of harvest and processing workers stopped showing up in some areas by mid-2025. USAID disruptions led to expired food aid—500 tons of biscuits and possibly 70,000 tons of other aid—while tariffs severed soybean trade with China and strained storage and prices.
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