Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Immigrant hands feed America, and that's exactly why farmers also fear Trump's deportation force

The simple fact is that without immigrant labor, America’s farms will slam to a stop. According to 2009 data from the U.S. Department of Labor, “71 percent of all farm workers in the country are foreign-born, and 48 percent are undocumented,” with others putting that latter number even higher. Immigrant hands feed America. But Donald Trump’s national mass deportation dragnet has left them terrified and many in hiding, with farmers who have long benefitted from their labor, like Wally Czajkowsk, feeling the pain:...
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1652895


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