OPINION: Safety Valve | Impacts of Deportations on the Dairy Industry
CEO of Land O' Lakes dairy conglomerate, Beth Ford, understands that dairymen are facing uncertainty going forward due to the loss of immigrant labor because of deportations. The year-round needs of the dairy industry have become dependent upon immigrant labor because American workers are unwilling or unable to do these low-paying and thankless jobs. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has said that there are "plenty of workers" in America, referring to the "34 million able-bodied adults" currently enrolled in Medicaid. (In 1965, the A-Team farm worker experiment was tried: American teens abandoned the project...
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