An excerpt from ‘Trump, Immigration, and Agriculture,’ an article by Philip Martin in Choices, a magazine published by the U.S. Agricultural and Applied Economics Association www.choicesmagazine.org. Eight million unauthorized foreigners are part of the U.S. labour force, and at least a million are employed primarily in agriculture. It cannot be a surprise, therefore, to learn
Half of U.S. crop workers are unauthorized immigrants
Most of the 700,000 workers on U.S. dairy farms also believed to be Mexican born and unauthorized
