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Trump’s Deportation Policy Leaves Farm and Hospitality Workers Exposed

Despite his promise to protect them, ICE continues to detain farm and hotel workers under unchanged deportation rules.

Farmworkers on a field in March near the US-Mexico border in Calexico, California. Undocumented workers make up an estimated 40% of farmworkers in the United States.
Farm workers work in fields south of Bakersfield in Kern County in April. Roughly half of the Central Valley's farm workforce is undocumented.
A Home Depot store in Westlake, California. Home Depot parking lots have long been convenient spots for day laborers to find work.

Overview

  • The White House has no plans to exempt farm, hotel or leisure workers from mass deportations despite President Trump’s vow to do so.
  • Trump acknowledged on Truth Social that aggressive immigration enforcement is stripping farms and hotels of long-time workers who are hard to replace.
  • Six House Republicans urged ICE director Todd Lyons to focus resources on convicted criminal aliens rather than non-criminal undocumented workers.
  • Recent ICE raids have forced operations to close from California to Nebraska and resulted in hundreds of arrests, with nearly half of those detained lacking criminal records.
  • Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Congress must expand the H-2A seasonal visa program to address acute labor shortages in rural communities.