Donald Trump said on Friday that farmers may be able to keep employing undocumented migrant workers without fearing enforcement raids under a system in which they would take “responsibility” for them.
Undocumented immigrants make up 4.6% of the U.S. workforce— more than 7 million people. Many of them work in agriculture, hospitality and construction, The Guardian reports.
Shay Myers, who runs Parma, one of the country’s largest onion farms, warned that “we will not feed our people without these workers,” considering that the Department of Agriculture estimates that over 40% of industry workers are undocumented.
Yeah except the Visa program they use is tied to their employment. Big Ag has been holding people basically as indentured slaves, forcing them to live on the farm. Any disagreement, or refusal to perform as the owner wants and their status is void and they get sent back. The government has known for YEARS about this happening. Always turned a blind eye, and now they have removed any avenue to permanent legal status in the US from that very visa program. So, want to live, or flee from oppression to the US? Well, now they’ll oppress you.
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