President Donald Trump said in an interview on Fox News that the administration is working to develop a temporary pass for immigrants who work in certain industries, which would mark the latest shift in the administration’s approach to immigration enforcement for farmworkers.
“We’re working on it right now. We’re going to work it so that some kind of a temporary pass where people pay taxes, where the farmer can have a little control, as opposed to you walk in and take everybody away,” Trump said in an interview that taped Friday and aired Sunday on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
The president referenced authorities going to farms and taking “away people that have been working there for 15 and 20 years, who are good, who possibly came in incorrectly.”
“What we’re going to do is 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,” Trump said. “When you go into a farm and he’s had somebody working with him for nine years doing this kind of work, which is hard work to do, and a lot of people aren’t going to do it, and you end up destroying a farmer because you took all the people away. It’s a problem.”
Reached for comment, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security provided the same comment given by the department earlier this month after the White House reversed a plan to limit immigration enforcement activity at certain industry workplaces.
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