U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in the United States illegally.

So far Trump officials have not committed to any exemptions, according to interviews with farm and worker groups and Trump’s incoming “border czar” Tom Homan.

Nearly half of the nation’s approximately 2 million farm workers lack legal status, according to the departments of Labor and Agriculture, as well as many dairy and meatpacking workers.

  • circuitfarmer
    16•4 hours ago

    Fuck that.

    Get what you voted for.

    (Yes I’m generalizing, but I’m pretty secure that the whole industry had a majority vote. Those in the industry that don’t support it should be active within their industries to avoid such nonsense in the future.)

    (And if they voted majority blue, I’m sorry and exceedingly surprised)