Posted on 07/04/2025 12:30:55 PM PDT by thegagline
The Trump administration plans to implement a process whereby farmers in Iowa can vouch for hard-working, law-abiding migrant farmworkers who may be facing deportation, so that they can remain in the U.S.
The proposed process was shared by President Donald Trump during an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Thursday night, kicking off a year of patriotic celebrations meant to honor the nation’s 250th birthday.
Trump said the new plan will take place in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security and that legislation for the measure is currently being drafted while speaking Thursday evening from Iowa.
“You know, they’ve had people working for them for years. And we’re going to do something … we’re going to sort of put the farmers in charge,” Trump told the crowd of people in attendance. “If a farmer has been with one of these people that worked so hard – they bend over all day, we don’t have too many people that can do that, but they work very hard, and they know him very well, and some of the farmers are literally, you know, they cry when they see this happen – if a farmer is willing to vouch for these people, in some way, Kristie, I think we’re going to have to just say that’s going to be good, right?”
“We don’t want to do [border security] where we take all of the workers off the farms,” Trump added. “We want the farms to do great.”
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That’s not really rewarding. Once they’re only in the country because their boss says they’re cool they’re now basically slaves. Any time the boss doesn’t like em anymore he can not only fire them, he can have them deported.
It’s a crap idea all the way around.
“It is not like Americans are going to do those jobs”
I am an American. I did “those jobs” in my youth.
That's not a valid reason.
They can use temporary workers with legal paperwork. That's the way it used to be.
I did them also as did many of my peers. This is a travesty.
Apparently there has always been something similar but different. A farmer once complained to me about having to do something just like this for his illegal but it put too much responsibility and liability on the farmer.
Nope. ship them out.
allow those in that haven’t broken our laws on worker visas if we need them.
oh and get some welfare reform going, get able american citizens back to work!
Wasn’t this how it used to be?
One either had the resources, or one had to have a sponsor who was responsible for the immigrant?
As long as the “farmers” feed them, pay to send their kids to school, buy their food, pay for the medical bills, pay for their shelter, WHO CARES. They belong to the “farmers” now. Get the taxpayers off the hook. We don’t need the illegal aliens.
How can Trump get away with amnesty just for farm workers?
Obviously, it’s the amnesty camel’s nose under the tent. Then it will be resort workers, etc., etc.
What's the point of arresting and deporting illegals if in the meanwhile you're creating a mile-wide loophole in the law?
China owns about 1%....Canada owns about 31%
TACO.
Make the farm\agriculture concern completely responsible for the workers quarters, provisioning and behavior - particularly behavior. The farm\etc. has full criminal & civil liability for their guest workers behavior.
Do that then I might consider supporting it.
Viva braceros! I’m a fan. For more than twenty years my father used seasonal Mexican workers who were expert in budding and grafting. Then along came Cesar Chavez and put a stop to their work. With no available employees the growers gave up producing certain stock, sold off land, which was incorporated as single unit homes in Santa Clara County, and the nursery moved from California to Texas. Forty to fifty locals lost jobs.
Institute an honest bracero program and employees can expect honest laborers.
We fought a war over that once.
Republicans freed the slaves.
Exactly. This is H-!B for no skill wetbacks. They cab go home to their counry of origin and apply for regular order visas.
I like to point out that I grew up in a town which probably had no illegal immigrants and as far as I recall, no Mexicans or Central Americans. Yet somehow, berries at the local farms got picked, lawns got landscaped, and motel rooms got cleaned. Nobody had to be enslaved to get any of it done either.
Vouch? Does that mean, post a bond, ensure they are not suckling at one of Uncle Sam’s many welfare teats?
>No. It means we still get cheap, easily cowed stoop labor because all of you are paying their room & board, meds, even education, all the things they really came for
If we could turn back time. That was a win/win for everybody . . until liberals, commies, activists stick their noses into it.
Have you ever sponsored an immigrant-or known anyone who has? It is not any kind of amnesty, it is time consuming, requires documentation and it is not cheap at all. Those farmers are being roped into sponsoring any illegals or other foreign workers-that isn’t amnesty-that is making the farmer just like any other sponsor of a foreigner-they are responsible for that person’s upkeep-food, health, and conduct while they are here-not the taxpayers, LEOs, etc.
It is a huge responsibility-and now that farmer has to pay that mojado wages like American worker as well. All that just to have some “cheap” foreign workers-I can see a lot of farmers having major buyers’ remorse the 1st payroll-as they pay the withholding taxes, etc for the 1st time, and it serves them right for being ass****s-be careful what you wish for...
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