California Farm Bureau says ICE raids ‘disruptive’ to agricultural economy
Farmworkers harvest vegetables near Salinas in File photo by Chris Stone Times of San Diego The California Farm Bureau disclosed immigration raids are having a disruptive effect on the state s agricultural business sector but expressed hope after President Trump promised to limit enforcement in certain industries The current approach to federal immigration enforcement is having a disruptive effect on California s rural communities and the farmers ranchers workers and families who live and work there revealed Bryan Little senior director of protocol advocacy at the Farm Bureau If federal immigration enforcement sessions continue in this direction it will become increasingly challenging to produce food process it and get it onto grocery store shelves The Sacramento-based organization is the principal advocate for California farmers and ranchers who are collectively responsible for a third of the nation s agricultural production The Farm Bureau issued a message Friday afternoon after Trump indicated via his Truth Social architecture that long-time workers may be spared from deportation raids Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive protocol on immigration is taking very good long time workers away from them with those jobs being almost impossible to replace Trump wrote In multiple cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Framework are applying for those jobs This is not good We must protect our Farmers but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA Changes are coming The New York Times announced Friday that ICE has been ordered to limit raids on farms meat-packing plants restaurants and hotels The newspaper quoted an email sent Thursday by a top ICE official stating Effective at present please hold on all work site enforcement investigations operations on agriculture including aquaculture and meat packing plants restaurants and operating hotels Little mentioned the Farm Bureau is encouraged that the president has signaled the need for more discrete and circumspect action to reduce disruption of farming operations
