As if Trump’s trade wars and tariffs don’t inflict enough pain in American farmers

 

Headline:  Wisconsin Public Radio, 1/5/2026

Frank Morris reports for Harvest Public Media:

The Trump administration’s push to deport millions of people living in the U.S. without legal status is about to surge. Washington will pump an extra $170 billion into Immigration Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and the Border Patrol between now and September 2029. 

With a massive budget behind the effort, the goal is to ramp up deportations to at least 1 million immigrants a year. That poses a huge threat to immigrant-dependent industries, like agriculture, which has been dealing with an acute labor shortage. 

Brandon Raso grows blueberries in New Jersey. Ideally, he would hire 600 workers to harvest the delicate fruit, but this year he could fill only a third of the positions.

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