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Trump Administration Eases Application Process and Lowers Wages for Guest Farmworkers

United Farm Workers said the shifts will hurt both migrant and domestic farmworkers. Farm groups praised the changes.

BY LISA HELD
OCTOBER 6, 2025


…At least 40 percent of farmworkers are immigrants who live and work in the U.S. permanently without legal authorization. Since President Donald Trump took office in January, his immigration crackdown has resulted in raids on farms, farmworkers not showing up to work due to fear, and fewer immigrants coming to the U.S.

In August, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said 1.6 million immigrants had left the country since she took over, and an independent economic analysis found agricultural employment dropped 6.5 percent between March and July. As a result, crops have reportedly been left to rot in fields in multiple states; one multigenerational dairy farm in Pennsylvania sold off its cows after the farmer couldn’t find workers...
 
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