Donald Trump said he will save employees without papers from deportation if their bosses can take care of them.
The US President drove the idea for the exemptions, which can also apply to hotel and restaurant employees, during a visit to Iowa.
Legislation is already being drawn up for the carve-out how to deal with people without papers with Kristi call the Minister of Interior Security.
“You know, they have worked for them for years. And we are going to do something … We are going to lead the farmers,” he said on Thursday evening.
“If a farmer has been with one of these people who worked so hard – they bend over all day, we don't have too many people who can do that, but they work very hard, and they know him very well, and some farmers are literally, you know, they cry when they see this happen.
“If a farmer is prepared to be responsible for these people, somehow, Kristi, I think we just have to say that it will be good, right?”
Donald Trump speaks with reporters in Iowa next to Kristi Name, Right – Alex Brandon/AP
Mr. Trump repeated comments he made earlier in the week.
Submitting the proposed exemptions is a dispute within the administration, with Brooke Rollins, the agricultural secretary, which encounters concessions for farmers and their employees, while immigration hardliner and deputy staff of the White House Stephen Miller are strong against all concessions.
At one point raids on farms, meat packaging plants and restaurants were interrupted.
But they were resumed again after immigration Hawks, including Mr Miller and MS, leaned on the president.
Mr. Trump's comments suggest this week that he could tend to support his agricultural secretary.
According to the Center for Migration Studies, there are around 283,000 people without papers in the US, with almost half in California; Other estimates give the figure even higher.
More than 80 percent come from Mexico, with the rest from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua.
Agricultural industry affected by Deportation Drive
The Trump Deportation Drive has destroyed the agricultural industry. Anxious to be picked up by immigration and customs enforcement (ICE), no less than 70 percent of agricultural workers stayed away in some parts of the country.
This has led to crops rot in fields and labor shortages at meat packaging facilities.
“We do not have enough workforce in the United States to do manual work, to do those tasks for which other people are not qualified to do and do not want to do,” Alexandra Sossa, CEO of Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project, told Newsweek.
“For example, we come across a problem where we do not have enough farm workers to grow the food we eat every day.”
According to Farmonaut, an agricultural technology company, the stricter immigration policy creates a labor shortage that increases food prices.
There is a similar pressure on the hospitality industry, with hotels and restaurants that are highly dependent on immigrant work.
Even Mar-A-Lago of Mr. Trump has imported foreign employees, with statistics from the Ministry of Labor, which shows that in 2023 it was requesting 136 H-2B-VISA for non-agricultural employees.
Trump insisted on solving labor problems in the long term
“We are encouraged that the President recognizes the valuable contributions that farm workers play in American food security,” said John Walt Boatright, director of the Public Affairs for the American Farm Bureau Federation
“Farmers support a safe boundary and safe communities, and they also understand that without a stable workforce it is not possible to get food from the farm to the tables of the American families.”
“We have not seen any details about President Trump's plans, but we are urging him and the congress to tackle long -term agricultural work issues by revising over -range regulations, modernizing the current guest arm programs to make access to employees possible throughout the year and to repair outdated wage calculations.”
Although the administration is willing to make concessions for these important groups of employees, there will be no let-up in the activities of ICE.
Within a few days after the announcement of an “Alligator Alcatraz” to house deportees in Florida, Alaska suggested, albeit the tongue in the cheek, that the big bear population could do a similar work in the frozen north.
The State has the opportunity to offer part of the $ 5 billion reserved in the big wonderful account for the construction and renovation of the detention facilities of ICE.
