[Photo Liz Kern]
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) -The son of the late Robert F. Kennedy joined the United Farm Workers protest outside the Robert E. Coyle Federal Building in Fresno on Friday.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the Trump Administration is partaking in fear mongering.
“All you do is penalize the employers – every immigrant, every illegal immigrant in this country will self deport, but we don’t need a wall we don’t need an immigration service, they’ll all just leave, but we don’t want that. What we really want to do it keep these people in a state of fear and anxiety so that it’s easier for employers to take advantage of them.” – Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Environmental Attorney.
The president of the UFW and other protestors formed a human billboard to show they reject President Trump’s threat to deport millions of undocumented workers.
Protestor Jamie Padilla from the UFW said many big growers supported Trump’s campaign, and they are calling on large agriculture companies to reject President Trump’s threat to deport many of them.
Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula was also in attendance; “I think the entire agricultural industry is concerned because we feed the country.”
When asked about President Trump’s plan to go after the criminal element, Arambula said: “President Trump has said a lot of things in his time, and honestly I think he sucks the oxygen out of the room, and would rather be able to talk about things that I think are constructive than always respond to what he says, because I found it hard to frankly keep up with him when when he’s speaking in 140 characters at a time.”
Demonstrators held signs asking President Trump who will feed America if he deports undocumented farm workers.
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