For years, the agricultural sector has faced a tight labor market as farm workers age and fewer new migrants and younger Americans willing to work in the fields. Senior officials of the Donald Trump government They promised that mass deportations would help, leading to “higher wages with better benefits” and a “100 percent American workforce.”
But the government has quietly acknowledged in recent months that its immigration raids and border crackdown have exacerbated the problem. So he has turned to an alternative source, the make it cheaper to hire migrant agricultural workers with temporary visas.
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