By Ryan Hanrahan
News Nation’s Jeff Arnold reported that “President Donald Trump has pledged to protect American farmers who rely on migrant workers to operate their farms, but until Thursday, details of how that would work remained limited.”
“But at a rally in Iowa, Trump said that he would allow the farmers who hire migrants to take charge and allow the migrants working in the agricultural industry to remain in the country,” Arnold reported. “The plan would not create a path to citizenship as some immigration advocates have called for, but would protect them from the possibility of being detained by ICE agents during workplace raids, Trump said.”
“‘If a farmer has been with one of these people that worked so hard – they bend over all day, we don’t have too many people that can do that, but they work very hard, and they know him very well, and some of the farmers are literally, you know, they cry when they see this happen,’ Trump said,” according to Arnold’s reporting. “‘If a farmer is willing to vouch for these people, in some way … I think we’re going to have to just say that’s going to be good, right?'”
Source : illinois.edu