Cheaper immigrant labor HAS BEEN essential for the American Economy….
As long as Trump lets Miller & Co. detaining and exporting migrants?
The American Economy IS going to suffer….
‘The Trump Admin’s Labor Dept has just admitted this…
Trump’s Agriculture Sec. HAS been warning on this months…
She has no juice against Miller & Co..
Americans will NOT take up the jobs migrants are being taken from….
And one could think Trump also DOES NOT have control over his migrant policy…
It’s under the control of his staff these days…
“Unless the Department acts immediately to provide a source of stable and lawful labor, this threat will grow,” with increased funding for immigration enforcement from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Labor Department said in the Federal Register, which is the place where all proposed rules are recorded for the public to view and comment….
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Also, contradicting comments made by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins that the U.S. farm workforce will become “100 percent American” as a result of mass deportations, the Labor Department noted that Americans are not willing to step into farm work and lack the skills to fill agricultural jobs that undocumented immigrants are abandoning.
“The Department concludes that qualified and eligible U.S. workers will not make themselves available in sufficient numbers,” the agency said.
The American Prospect first reported on the Labor Department’s comments that immigration policies are endangering the food supply and that American workers are unwilling to take agricultural jobs.
The Labor Department’s comments appear to be the first time that the Trump administration has publicly acknowledged that its hallmark immigration policy — sealing the border and deporting undocumented immigrants — threatens labor shortages and higher food prices. However, economists have been sounding the alarm since Trump campaigned on the issue during last year’s presidential election….
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At the same time, the agricultural industry is getting squeezed by Trump’s tariff policy. China, which has traditionally purchased agricultural crops like soybeans, corn and wheat, has stopped buying soybeans and some other crops, hurting U.S. farmers. The New York Times reported recently that the White House is considering a bailout for farmers.
The combination of Trump’s economic policies, including higher tariffs and fewer immigrant workers, is starting to weigh on prices overall, including food. The consumer price index was up 2.9 percent in August, the most recent month for which there is data….
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But last week, in its justification for lowering the barriers for employers to access more migrant farmworkers, the Labor Department described “a persistent and systemic lack of sufficient numbers of qualified, eligible and interested American workers to perform the kinds of work that agricultural employers demand,” and called the work “among the most physically demanding and hazardous occupations in the U.S. labor market.”
More than 40 percent of all agricultural workers were undocumented between 2020 and 2022, according to the Agriculture Department, and roughly one-third were U.S.-born….
Note….
Sooner or later Trump, The President, will HAVE to slow down the efforts of Miller, Homan and others against migrants…
That?
Or they WILL put Trump in a polace he can’t alibi out to Amerinas who are essential for his party to keep it’s power in government….
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