Trump's immigration policy scares away workers, leaving farms in a labor shortage: fruits and vegetables are rotting on the ground with no one to harvest them...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in California have scared away large numbers of illegal migrant laborers, causing crops to rot at peak harvest times. This article is compiled and compiled from an article written by Reuters, hoping to provide readers with a more realistic perspective on the impact of Trump's policies. (Synopsis: July outlook: Trump's three major actions vs record calm market, is this month still "summer weakness"? (Background added: Trump said 12-nation tariff notification letter sent next Monday, Zhuo Rongtai: Priority to protect Taiwan's sensitive products, negotiations underway) Lisa Tate is a sixth-generation farmer in (Ventura County) in Fandora County, California, an area that produces billions of dollars worth of fruits and vegetables each year, most of which are hand-picked by illegal immigrants in the United States. Tate is very knowledgeable about the surrounding farms. She said she witnessed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids on fields in the area earlier this month, part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown policy, have scared off many workers. She said in an interview: "In the fields, I dare say that 70% of the workers are gone." "If 70% of your workforce doesn't show up, 70% of your crops can't be harvested and can break down in a day. Most Americans don't want to do the job, and farmers here are mostly struggling to make ends meet. I'm afraid this has created a tipping point where many farms will go out of business." North of Los Angeles, a vast agricultural area stretching from Fandora County to (central valley) of the state's Central Valley, two farmers, two field directors and four immigrant agricultural workers told Reuters (Reuters) this month, ICE The raids have caused most workers to stop working. This means, they say, that the crop is not being harvested and that the fruits and vegetables are rotting at peak harvest. A Mexican farm director, who asked not to be named, was overseeing a field ready to grow strawberries last week. Normally he would have 300 workers, he said. But he had only 80 that day; The director of another different farm said that he usually had 80 workers in his field, but today there are only 17. A farmland in Oxnard (Oxnard), California, U.S., June 18, 2025. Most economists and politicians acknowledge that many agricultural workers in the U.S. are staying illegally, but a sharp decline in their numbers could have a devastating impact on the food supply chain and the economy of agricultural belts. Of the four migrant agricultural workers interviewed by Reuters, two were illegal immigrants from the country. Out of fear of being arrested by ICE, the two spoke anonymously. One of the 54-year-old workers has worked on U.S. farmland for 30 years, with a wife and children in the country. He said most of his colleagues had stopped working. "If they go to work, they don't know if they'll ever see their families again," he said. Another worker who was staying illegally told Reuters: "Basically, we all wake up in the morning scared. We're worried about the sun, the heat, and now there's a bigger problem... Many people can't go home. I try not to cause trouble on the street. Now, anyone who is arrested for any reason will be deported." Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a Republican and former director of the Congressional Budget Office (Congressional Budget Office), said an estimated 80 percent of farmworkers in the U.S. are foreign-born, with nearly half of them staying illegally. Losing them, he said, would lead to higher prices for consumers. "It's not good for the supply chain, it's not good for agriculture." According to the (California Department of Food and Agriculture) of California, more than one-third of U.S. vegetables and more than three-quarters of fruits and nuts are grown in California. The state's farms and ranches generated nearly $60 billion in agricultural sales in 2023. A Guatemalan migrant works in a farm field in (Kern County), Kern County, California, United States, June 19, 2025. Reuters/Pilar Olivares To be sure, some agro-workers' community groups say many workers are returning to their fields out of economic necessity despite the raids. Five groups told Reuters that attendance in the fields may drop in the days following the raid, but workers will soon return with no other source of income. Workers are also taking other steps to reduce contact with immigration officials, such as sharing rides with people with legal work status or sending children of U.S. citizenship to the grocery store, the groups said. In a post on his Truth Social account this month, Trump acknowledged that ICE's raids on farm workers and restaurant workers are "taking very good, long-term workers from these industries" and "jobs that are almost impossible to replace." Trump later told reporters: "Our farmers have been seriously hurt. They have very good workers." "They are not citizens, but they turned out to be great," he added. He has promised to issue an order to address the impact, but has yet to enact any policy changes. White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in response to a request for comment about the impact of the ICE raid on farms that Trump has always supported farmers. "He will continue to strengthen our agricultural industry and promote exports, while keeping our promise to enforce immigration laws," she said. Bernard Yaros, chief U.S. economist at Oxford Economics (Oxford Economics), a nonpartisan global economic consulting firm, said in a June 26 report that native-born workers often don't fill the void left by migrant workers when they leave. "Unauthorized immigrants often do different jobs than native-born people," he said. Greg Tesch, who runs a farm in central California, said ICE's actions on California farmland frightened even those with legal status. "When they hear the word ICE, no one feels safe, not even documented people," Tesch says. We know this community is a mix of documented and undocumented people." "If the crop is ripe, like our neighbors have bell peppers here, [if] they don't harvest within two or three days, the crop will be sunburned or overripe," Tesch says. We need labor." 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