There was widespread outrage at President Donald Trump’s comments earlier this year that Immigration and Customs Enforcement shouldn’t enforce the law against farms employing illegal aliens. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins did damage control by saying that the administration’s goal remains that farms should have “a 100% American workforce” and that “ultimately, the answer on this is automation.”

So why is the Trump administration doing the exact opposite, encouraging farmers to import more foreign workers and to slow harvest mechanization? That’s what a recent Department of Labor regulation would do.

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