President Donald Trump’s Labor Department is warning that his administration’s tough immigration enforcement could trigger a food crisis, citing “immediate dangers to the American food supply” caused by a collapse in the migrant farm labor force, The American Prospect reported.
In a Federal Register filing, the Department of Labor said that stricter immigration enforcement and deportations have severely disrupted the nation’s agricultural workforce, leaving growers without enough workers to harvest crops.
The agency’s new rule on farmworker wages argues that without swift action to expand the foreign guest worker program, the U.S. risks “supply shock-induced food shortages.”
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