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Trump’s push for more deportations could boost demand for foreign farmworkers with ‘guest worker’ visas

  • Written by Scott Morgenstern, Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
Trump’s push for more deportations could boost demand for foreign farmworkers with ‘guest worker’ visasMexican farmworkers with H-2A visas weed a North Carolina tobacco field in 2016.Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

The U.S. has an important choice to make regarding agriculture.

It can import more people to pick crops and do other kinds of agricultural labor, it can raise wages enough to lure more U.S. citizens and immigrants with legal...

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