Trump Floats Plan to Legalize Undocumented Farm Workers

On Thursday, President Trump suggested a new program will be set up to help legalize farmworkers and reduce the risk of farmers losing undocumented workers to mass deportations.  Trump discussed easing restrictions around undocumented farm labor during a Cabinet meeting last week.  It was the first time the president had signaled a willingness to temper his mass deportation plans to help protect the labor pool for industries such as agriculture.

Undocumented workers will be given a chance to self-deport and return to the country legally, he noted.  That should be an incentive for people in the country illegally to identify themselves under the Alien Registration Act with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.

Trump said, “We're going to work with people so that if they go out in a nice way and go back to their country, we're going to work them right from the beginning on trying to get them back legally.”

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