New York's small farms are beginning to feel the strain of immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, with experts warning that an industry heavily reliant on undocumented workers needs an urgent solution from Congress .

While much of the focus when it comes to immigrants in the Empire State has been the New York City metro area, the state itself is home to as many as 67,000 farmworkers across 30,000 farms mostly upstate and on Long Island.

"We are the most important part of the country, because no one can live without food," said one Mexican man who has worked in New York for 12 years, speaking to Newsweek on condition of anonymity, said. "So we can live without a car, without electricity, without many things. But we can't live without food."

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