“We’re looking at doing something where in the case of good, reputable farmers, they can take responsibility for the people that they hire, and let them have responsibility, because we can’t put the farms out of business, and at the same time, we don’t want to hurt people that aren’t criminals,” Trump told reporters.
Sounds a lot like slavery to me
This isn’t about immigration or migrant workers, this is purely racist theatre. Punishing brown people for the sake of being evil.
If the government REALLY wanted to end undocumented workers, they’d go after the people hiring them. Workers are mobile. They move around a lot. 30000 acre farms pretty much just stay put. The owners of those farms already have tight margins some years. Imagine how it would be if they got hit with a $50k fine for each undocumented worker? Undocumented workers would end overnight because they can hire minimum wage worker for less than the 50k fine.