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Agriculture secretary suggests Medicaid recipients could replace immigrant farmworkers
MSNBC· 2025-07-09 21:15
Uh the president has expressed concerns about how mass deportations would affect the farm industry. Do you have concerns on this front and are you hearing about some of these top conservatives saying that there's a push for amnesty for this workforce. I appreciate you bringing that up.There's been a lot of noise in the last few days and a lot of questions about where the president stands in his vision for farm labor. The first thing I'll say is the president has been unequivocal that there will be no amnest ...
'These raids need to stop!': Farmer blasts Trump and ICE targeting agriculture workers
MSNBC· 2025-06-12 16:10
Ventura County has thousands of farms, more than 2,000, maybe as many as 3,000 farms that look just like this. There are tens of thousands of farm workers that work at these farms every single day. And many, if not most of them are undocumented immigrants.This is around the time that you would see a lot of workers out here. Uh, and today it has been a virtual ghost town of workers. That's our Jacob Soberof reporting from farm fields in California's Ventura County last night, noting that many fields were emp ...