President Trump Floats New Plan For Illegal Farm Workers: “Put the Farmers In Charge”

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President Trump just floated a very interesting new plan when it comes to illegal immigrants working in the farming industry: if a farmer vouches for you, you can stay.

During his speech in Iowa today, President Trump addressed the illegal immigration plague, telling the crowd that his administration is working hard to deport illegal criminals, murderers, and drug dealers.

But, when it comes to illegal aliens working on farms, he says that he is working with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to “sort of put the farmers in charge.”

Basically, the idea is that if a farmer is willing to stand by the illegal immigrant working on his farm, then they won’t get deported and can keep their job.

Watch what President Trump had to say here:

TRUMP on Immigration: We’re going to sort of put the farmers in charge…If a farmer has been with one of these people that worked so hard, they bend over all day, we don’t have many people who can do that. pic.twitter.com/UwF0S3zOWW

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 4, 2025

President Trump’s comments today echo what he told Fox News‘ Maria Bartiromo recently.

Watch that clip here:

Trump: We’re going to do something for farmers where we can let the farmer sort of be in charge. The farmer knows. He's not going to hire a murderer. I'm on both sides. I'm the strongest immigration guy, but I'm also the strongest farmer guy there's ever been. And that includes… pic.twitter.com/pgezTGhbiP

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 29, 2025

This all comes after farmers in states like Iowa have been reportedly complaining that they’re struggling due to a labor shortage caused by mass deportations.

It appears that President Trump has been working to find a middle-ground solution.

Reuters noted:

Trump has been pursuing a hard-line policy on migration and his U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been leading an effort to deport people who crossed into the United States illegally.

This has led to some complaints from farmers that their crops are at risk due to a depleted work force.

“If a farmer is willing to vouch for these people in some way, Kristi, I think we’re going to have to just say that’s going to be good, right?”

“We don’t want to do it where we take all of the workers off the farms,” he added, speaking in a Midwestern state where farming is a dominant industry.

Last month, President Trump briefly directed immigration authorities to pause deportations of illegal workers in the farming and hotel industries.

But, after receiving a lot of pushback, he ultimately rescinded that directive.

Keep in mind that currently, the DHS reports that a little under half of farm workers in the U.S. are illegal immigrants.

Des Moines Register added some more background:

Trump’s latest comments come amid a string of conflicting messages from his administration on the issue.

Trump announced a plan for a massive roundup and deportation of immigrants ahead of his inauguration in January, a move expected to hit Iowa hard, damaging rural towns’ economies, leaving livestock production hamstrung and slowing meat processing and other manufacturing, say economists, worker and business advocates and labor analysts.

Perpetually short of labor, Iowa is the leading U.S. producer of pork and eggs and a top source of beef, turkey and milk. At large meatpacking plants scattered across the state and in livestock operations, immigrants are a major source of labor.

Under Trump, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been conducting widespread raids and arresting and detaining immigrants, many of whom do not have any criminal record.

Trump promised changes to protect migrants in the farming, hotel and leisure industries in a June 12 Truth Social post.

“Our farmers are being hurt badly,” Trump said in remarks later that day.

Following those comments, Trump’s administration directed immigration officials to largely pause raids on farms, hotels, restaurants and meatpacking plants. But the administration reversed course a few days later and resumed the raids.

Then on June 20, Trump, while traveling to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, told reporters he wanted to shield farmers from the effects of his crackdown on illegal immigration.

“We’re looking at doing something where, in the case of good, reputable farmers, they can take responsibility for the people that they hire and let them have responsibility, because we can’t put the farms out of business,” Trump said. “And at the same time we don’t want to hurt people that aren’t criminals.”

About 42% of farm workers in the United States between 2020 and 2022 lacked legal status, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

President Trump’s latest plan to let farmers continue employing illegal workers is highly controversial, to say the least.

Many folks believe that ultimately, it will harm the American worker.

This X user makes a great point:

He’s trying to have it both ways and doesn’t want to make the hard choice.

You can’t improve American wages and keep foreign labor. Wages will go up cuz employers will have to pay more. There is no free lunch.

— War for the West (@War4theWest) June 29, 2025

But, others like the idea of putting it all in the farmer’s hands.

Trump trusts real farmers, do your job right or you’re out.

— Masculine Based (@MasculineBased) July 4, 2025

Where do you stand on this?

Should illegal aliens be allowed to continue working on farms without getting deported?

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