The Trump administration’s deportation raids earned a surprising new critic this month: the Trump administration. In a filing to the Federal Register submitted Oct. 2, the Department of Labor disclosed that the White House’s anti-migrant policies now threaten the “stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S consumers.” What’s more, the threat to America’s ability to grow and pick food domestically will only “grow” as Trump-led efforts to “enhance enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws are deployed.”

A ‘structural, not cyclical, workforce crisis’

Contrary to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’ claim that the sector is moving “towards automation and 100% American participation,” the Labor Department’s filing suggests that American workers are “simply not interested i

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