California farmers fret over Trump's deportation plans

California farmers fret over Trump's deportation plans

In California's central valley, vegetable, nut and dairy farmers aren't sure how US President-elect Donald Trump's deportation plans will impact their operations. While some dairy farmers don't believe mass deportations will happen at all, other fruit and nut farmers fear that deportations could be especially hard on their industry, since many harvests rely on hand picking by documented and undocumented migrant workers. "We don't know what mass deportation is going to mean. We don't know when it's going to start," says farmer Joe Del Bosque. Deportations, he adds, "would disrupt our food supply for the country. We really don't think that anybody wants that."

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01:30We don't know what mass deportation is going to mean, okay? We don't know when

01:44it's gonna start. He said it's gonna be in day one. I don't know where he's

01:49gonna start because if there are millions of people here, he obviously

01:52can't cover the whole country at one time. I don't know where he's gonna go.

01:57Hopefully it gives us time to reach out to the administration and talk to them

02:04about immigration for our essential workers, like our farm workers, that, you

02:10know, we can't have deportations here because it would disrupt our

02:15food supply for the country. We really don't think that anybody wants that

02:21because without our people, our farms will come to a stop. We will not be able

02:27to harvest our fruits and vegetables and nuts, and that will interrupt the food

02:34chain for Americans, and it would possibly increase food prices

02:39tremendously, too. Well, number one, I don't think it would happen overnight

02:43because you don't want to cripple any kind of food source, and we provide a

02:50food. The same as the vegetables, the lettuce, they provide food. If you wanted

02:58to say, okay, everybody's going to get taken away, which I don't think is going

03:02to happen, and I have to emphasize that, mechanization is coming. Mechanization is

03:08already here. There's already automatic milkers, basically, in the barn, but there

03:15are new milkers that are automatic that actually attach the machine, and they

03:19don't need employees.

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