US EditionTrump immigration raids threaten US food security, farmers warn
- Farmers warn that Trump's immigration raids are threatening US food security, as many farm workers are undocumented immigrants.
- A farmer named Tate says farmers need year-round workers, and that 42% of farm workers are unauthorized to work in the US.
- A worker named Silvia lives in constant fear of being separated from her US-born daughters due to the raids.
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Some Republicans push more visas despite hard line on immigration
Even as the Trump administration pursues a hardline approach to enforcing immigration law, some congressional Republicans acknowledge the need to expand immigration opportunities for workers in specialized sectors such as agriculture. As industries that depend on temporary workers like agriculture and tourism say they need greater latitude to hire immigrant workers to address labor shortages, some GOP lawmakers have sought to qualify their party…
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AlKhaleej TodayTrump’s immigration crackdown puts US food security on the line, California farmers warn
VENTURA, July 27 — Lisa Tate, whose family has been farming in Ventura County since 1876, cannot recall a threat to crops like the one emanating from Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant onslaught.Tate fears that the crackdown on illegal workers, far from addressing the problems of this vital agricultural region north of Los Angeles, could “dismantle the whole economy” and put the country’s food security at risk.“I began to get really concerned when we…
Farmer Lisa Tate, whose family has farmed in Southern California for more than a century, says she's never seen a threat to her crops like the one seen in recent months by the Trump administration's anti-immigration crackdown. Based in Ventura, a city north of Los Angeles that has been the scene of several recent immigration raids, Tate argues that the implementation of this federal policy doesn't solve the problem in the fields; on the contrary…
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