Lifelong farmer Joe Del Bosque knows that America can’t live without immigrants, but he worries that many of his countrymen think it can’t live with them either.
“When they’re needed, they welcome them. When they don’t need them, they want to kick them out,” the 75-year-old said.
“Well, right now the country doesn’t know that they do need some of these workers.”
Farmers like Del Bosque, who grows cantaloupes and almonds in California, fear they could be at the sharp end of president-elect Donald Trump’s promise to deport millions of non-citizens.
Economists agree that a mass expulsion could leave him and others like him without enough workers to harvest food – causing shortages and sending prices skyrocketing.
“He’s talked about deportations. We don’t know yet what that means,” said Del Bosque.
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