Lawmakers want to know if President Donald Trump's plans of mass deportation for illegal immigrants will impact American farmers and create a worker shortage.
Democrat lawmakers are worried American farms will suffer under President Donald Trump’s mass deportation initiative. Approximately 40% of crop farmworkers are not approved to work in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Agricultural Workers Survey, and Democrat lawmakers are curious about who will step in to work in the heat or cold.
While the lawmakers acknowledged that those who pose a public safety threat shouldn’t remain in the U.S., they also said Americans are less inclined to work in the harsh conditions that farming requires than illegal immigrants. Schiff said estimates suggest half of California’s farm workforce is undocumented and asked Rollins how farmers were supposed to survive if half their workforce is cut because 'Americans don’t want to do that work' since it's 'too backbreaking.
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