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Michelle Norris, MSNBC - There are more than 2.6 million people working on farms in the United States. That includes 1 million workers for hire who are primarily immigrants. According to recent KFF data, 1 in 10 workers are Hispanic and two-thirds are noncitizen immigrants. While a small percent hold work authorization or a green card with protective status, almost half lack formal work authorization.

President Donald Trump seemed to be aware of this when he said in June that he would give farms and other select industries a “temporary pass” from deportations. But [Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins] appeared to reverse course last week when she made her 100% American announcement, in so doing adding a curious twist to the uphill challenge for finding workers in the field...

Rollins said there would be no amnesty for farm workers and that the mass deportations would continue “in a strategic and intentional way, as we move our workforce towards more automation and towards a 100% American workforce.”

Hayes Brown, MSNBC - The last major overhaul of American immigration law took place decades ago and there’s been no will from Congress to revamp it since then. Instead, a string of presidents has sought to interpret the law to fit their preferred policies. What we’re seeing under President Donald Trump, though, is a federal bureaucracy abandoning the law as it exists, rewriting the rules that would constrain it from exercising maximum cruelty and dehumanization toward immigrants.

Over the last six months, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has served as the tip of the spear in the Trump administration’s mass deportation push. According to The Washington Post, acting ICE director Todd Lyons issued a memo last week that instructs officers to hold immigrants in their custody “for the duration of their removal proceedings” — however long that takes. His determination marks a major shift in the way ICE functions and threatens to transform the immigration system more broadly overnight. More

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