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FARM WORKERS SPARED FROM DEPORTATION
Jun. 16, 2025
Agri-Pulse reports:
Farms appear to be protected from worker deportations - at least for now. But Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins is making it clear she's still on board with President Donald Trump's agenda of deporting illegal aliens from the U.S.
That policy was altered late last week, however, to soften the blow for the agricultural and hospitality sectors, according to Department of Homeland Security guidance reported by the New York Times Saturday (See our story here).
On Sunday, Rollins said on X that "severe disruptions to our food supply would harm Americans. It took us decades to get into this mess and we are prioritizing deportations in a way that will get us out." The "mess" she was referring to is the "broken farm-labor economy."
She also said she fully supports Trump's immigration agenda, "starting with strong border security and deportations of EVERY illegal alien."
Keep in mind: Recent detentions and unannounced visits by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to farms and other facilities had heightened criticism from the ag sector and politicians including House Ag Chair Glenn "GT" Thompson.
Thompson told reporters that "to come in here with guns blazing and what you're taking out are hard-working dairymen ... it's just wrong. They need to knock it off. Let's go after the criminals. I think the president agrees. I don't know where the disconnect is. It must be somebody a little lower in the food chain that's making those mistakes."
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