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re: Louisiana Congresswoman Julia Letlow seeking H-2B Visa Cap Relief for Crawfish Industry
Posted on 1/28/26 at 1:52 pm to junkfunky
Posted on 1/28/26 at 1:52 pm to junkfunky
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I will live if the crawfish industry disappears tomorrow but you are begging for super expensive crawfish. Whether Patel or Smith is working the tech job that industry isn't getting massively disrupted.
I mean, don't prices drop when we outsource work or import product (to/from cheaper networks) in any type of industry? Just wondering where the red line is.
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Posted on 1/28/26 at 1:55 pm to TimeOutdoors
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It's not often anyone gets out of line, but if one of them does, it is handled by the group.
Kind of wish society as a whole could be more that way. But that explains why you’d never hear about one of them breaking into the local Dollar General or robbing Rod’s Grocery with a gun.
This post was edited on 1/28/26 at 1:57 pm
Posted on 1/28/26 at 1:57 pm to ragincajun03
The actual crawfish workers that work the fields are H2A and the workers that peel/work processing plants are H2B. Don’t know why there’s a difference but the actual crawfish production shouldn’t be effected much it’ll be the peeled/whole boil side of crawfish.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 1:59 pm to TimeOutdoors
There’s usually one guy, most of the time the one with the most experience is the boss of the crew. He’s the one lining up people to work with the group. If someone acts up he gets cut from the crew and replaced either that year or the following year.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 2:06 pm to SWLA92
I learned something new today. Thank you, good sir.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 2:07 pm to ragincajun03
Get the women out of politics and voting booths and see how much better this nation becomes.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 2:08 pm to grizzlylongcut
Letlow has done more for the ag industry than anyone else since she’s been in office. Not to mention the other industries she helps. She’s genuinely one of the good people in politics
Posted on 1/28/26 at 2:09 pm to SWLA92
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Letlow has done more for the ag industry than anyone else since she’s been in office. Not to mention the other industries she helps. She’s genuinely one of the good people in politics
Don’t care. Get em out.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 2:11 pm to TROLA
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I guess their illegals are gone so they are now going the visa route.
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I’ve been to enough farms to know what’s up
No you haven't because you would know 99% are H2A or H2B workers or have green cards and its been that way for over 20 years
Posted on 1/28/26 at 2:20 pm to SWLA92
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Letlow has done more for the ag industry than anyone else since she’s been in office. Not to mention the other industries she helps. She’s genuinely one of the good people in politics
How dare you suggest a woman could be a good, competent Congressman who represent her constituents and industries in her district.
You must be one of them long-haired hippie type pinko figs
I betcha you even got a Commie flag
Tacked up on the wall inside of your garage
Posted on 1/28/26 at 2:27 pm to SWLA92
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Letlow has done more for the ag industry than anyone else since she’s been in office. Not to mention the other industries she helps. She’s genuinely one of the good people in politics
Apparently, some people don't like her because she's not "MAGA" enough. She votes with the GOP 99.5% of the time and actually delivers projects and helpful policies to the state.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 2:30 pm to Defenseiskey
Not “MAGA” enough yet Trump endorsed her
Posted on 1/28/26 at 2:40 pm to ATrillionaire
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I mean, don't prices drop when we outsource work or import product (to/from cheaper networks) in any type of industry?
Depends. Industrial engineering made a huge mistake with outsourcing in the mid '00s that ended up costing them more because the work we'd receive back from India all had to be redone. That wasn't a cheap lesson.
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Just wondering where the red line is.
I think an ideal place to start is blue/white collar. Americans aren't going back to the fields without a severe depression.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 2:45 pm to SWLA92
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Not “MAGA” enough yet Trump endorsed her
I would take her over Cassidy any day of the week.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 2:49 pm to ragincajun03
I ain’t even got a garage. You can call home and ask my wife!
Posted on 1/28/26 at 3:07 pm to Cosmo
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Poor Americans wont work in sugar cane fields or crawfish ponds for $100 a day
They would rather do nothing.
If we remove their incentives not to, they will.
Hunger is a great motivator, that has been removed. The reason the "guest workers" will do it, is because the hunger motivation has not been removed for them.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 3:16 pm to chalmetteowl
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The tech jobs are more likely to need talent that our country just doesn’t produce
This is bullshite. It's more like the tech industry can get away paying Indians half of what they would pay Americans, and then once an Indian gets into a hiring position they only want to hire other Indians.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 3:25 pm to Cosmo
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And they go back home when season is over and dont bring their entire families with them
Well spouses can't get work authorization if the primary is on H-2A or H-2B so most don't. I don't have the stats in front of me but would venture to guess the amount of overstays for people on those two visa types are minimal.
The hill I will die on is if you want to truly clean out illegal immigrants, offer everyone who self-deports the ability to pay say a $5000 fine (technically would be a waiver of unlawful presence fee) which would then allow them to come back legally on one of those visas. Would need to raise the H-2B cap from 66k per year though to make it viable.
Get a massive new influx of money from the fines+normal processing fees, don't have to actual spend money deporting anyone, and the labor market isn't disrupted from the sudden lose of workers to deportation.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 3:39 pm to lionward2014
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This is bullshite. It's more like the tech industry can get away paying Indians half of what they would pay Americans, and then once an Indian gets into a hiring position they only want to hire other Indians.
100% true. And they will also work 100 hours a week with zero complaints and be fine with only putting 40 on their timecard. And when told they are needed for another project from Dallas to Seattle, need you there Monday, they go. No questions asked.
It's more than just discount labor, it's exploitation.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 3:43 pm to junkfunky
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I think an ideal place to start is blue/white collar. Americans aren't going back to the fields without a severe depression.
I don't disagree.
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