(José Niño, Headline USA) When Donald Trump’s top officials promised that mass deportations would deliver “higher wages with better benefits” and a “100 percent American work force,” farmers across the country watched with a mixture of hope and dread. The agricultural sector had struggled for years to find enough hands to harvest crops as workers aged out and fewer young Americans showed interest in backbreaking field labor.
But reality collided with rhetoric. According to a New York Times report, the administration has quietly acknowledged that immigration raids and border enforcement have worsened labor shortages rather than solved them. The Labor Department admitted in a regulatory filing that “the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens combined with the lack of an available legal work force results in significant disruptions to production costs and threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.”
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