Farmworkers needed

Of course they are.  If the Immigration and Customs Enforcement goons were going after “the worst of the worst,” we wouldn’t need to worry about the shortage of farmworkers.  That was never the plan of Stephen Miller.  It was mass deportations from the start.

Now the administration is giving in to agribusiness.  Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, said the administration was planning to ease “regulatory burdens and lower labor costs.”  What that means is the administration is increasing the numbers of foreign workers under the H-2A visa program.  

One way to attract more workers would be to raise the wages of farmworkers, but that would make groceries cost even more than they do.  The Trump administration is caught in a dilemma resulting from its inability to think more than a day or two into the future.

Some info for this post is from Linda Qiu, “U.S. Eases Path for Hiring More Migrant Farmworkers,” New York Times, (March 15, 2026), p. 17.  The snarky comments are all mine.