Trump team wants to make it easier for migrants to work on US farms - after targeting them in deportation raids

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Sunday 15 March 2026 20:40 EDT


With deportation raids sending a chill across farm country, the Trump administration wants to make it easier for U.S. farms to hire migrant workers, angering critics across the political spectrum.

On January 1, new emergency rules took effect, allowing U.S. farms to hire more workers and pay less in wages for migrants coming in on H-2A temporary labor visas.

Speaking during a visit to Louisiana this week, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins framed the changes as a way to help farmers struggling to find U.S. workers in the absence of deeper congressional reforms.

“We are working to make very quick change as quickly as we can to basically open up the market so that these labor questions can be resolved,” Rollins said.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-immigrant-farm-worker-visa-b2938966.html

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Like this Iran "war", they insist on carrying out draconian measures out of sheer foaming-at-the-mouth hate, revenge, and arrogance, and then are forced to scramble to "fix" the problem that strategy causes when the actual results are catastrophic.

If ICE is already IGNORING people here legally with work permits, let alone those who are actual CITIZENS, what makes them think they will stop doing so by doling out H-2A Visas? As long as their main targeting mechanism is by racial profiling, the problem will continue.

[mwmisses4289]

1. The wealthy donor farmers and ranchers and their wealthy donors customers are finally being impacted.

[lark]

2. Yeah, come on in said the spider to the fly just before he pounced!

Bring in more so they can more easily meet their deportation "quotas"!

[RussBLib]

3. Or, bring in more migrants so that ....

… “we” can arrest them and stuff them into detention centers. Fuck deporting them. “We” can make more money by detaining them.

[mpcamb]

4. "Trump team..." what a rat fest gathering that must be. Don't picture it! It'll spoil your day.

[markpkessinger]

5. The Trump administration will follow it's usual pattern . . .

. . . which is:

(1) create a new problem (or greatly exacerbate an existing one);
(2) take a few tiny steps to try to ameliorate it; and
(3) then take credit for being the 'ONLY" administration that ever tried to do anything about the problem this administration created or exacerbated!

[republianmushroom]

6. More of trump team planning.

Hand meet face. Jesus, the smarts this administration has shown.

[Solly Mack]

7. Damn

[Xolodno]

8. Whenever Democrats try to address migrant labor and put in reforms...

...that would make things legal, Republicans scream "Amnesty!!!". Why aren't they doing that now?

[ChicagoTeamster]

9. I think Trump plans on "winning" by lowering wages across the agriculture, meatpacking, and construction industries.

He petitioned for more workers for his businesses as well and offered lower wages. Get rid of people making the higher wages, bring in people who will be paid lower wages. Except that they might not get that many takers.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. But as long as ICE is running amok

they would STILL get targeted, rounded up and rendered to some unknown concentration camp, and then hauled off onto a plane to some random country, solely based on what they look like, how they speak, and their names.

[pecosbob]

11. Big Ag wants slaves...to limit their legal rights and ability to travel so that they can exploit them at will.

[City Lights]

12. If he had a brain in his head it would rattle. nt