Deportation Meets Harvest
- Promised
- The platform promised the largest deportation operation in American history and separately promised to protect American farmers.Open cited record · 1 source
- The record
- Trump directed executive agencies to use lawful means to enforce immigration law against inadmissible and removable noncitizens and set nationwide enforcement priorities.Open cited record · 1 sourceReuters reported that ICE field enforcement in California agricultural areas led many workers at farms covered by its reporting to stay away from work.Open cited record · 1 sourceInterviewees reported worker counts falling from 300 to 80 at one field and from 80 to 17 at another, with ripe crops left unpicked or rotting.Open cited record · 1 source
- Who paid
- Farmworkers in affected California communities
- Farms in affected California communities
- Audit finding
- partly kept
The deportation promise was implemented, but contemporaneous evidence shows a collision with the platform's promise to protect farmers and the food supply in affected farm communities.
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