Saturday, July 6, 2019

Trump's immigration goons target Minnesota farm workers

As you would expect. It’s a good article, well worth clicking and reading in full.
Morrison County is Trump country, with the state's highest voter turnout for the president in 2016. It's also a place where local farmers rely on Hispanic immigrants for labor, and the president's national push to catch unauthorized workers is starting to bite. A rise in farm worker arrests and deportations the past few months has Little Falls on edge.
Concerns about the increased level of enforcement echo throughout this rural community of about 8,000 people, two hours north of the Twin Cities, where several residents, activists and farmers say Border Patrol trucks, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been highly visible in the area since last fall. - MPR
As a matter of fact the Trump administration has sought to make it easier, at least as far as getting here, for seasonal farm workers to do their thing. But that has not been well-publicized, as there’s no question as to what Trump’s base would “think” of that. It’s also entirely unclear what really will happen when harvest time rolls around, soon.

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