‘We want workers but we don’t want people’: Trump’s immigration raids will likely increase foreign workers in US, experts say

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The Trump administration’s goal to expel millions of immigrants laboring in the food system will likely increase the foreign workforce in the U.S., experts said Thursday. Following increased immigration enforcement, some dairy farms have recently sold off cows because they couldn’t find workers. In July, Trump signed into law his tax bill, which gave $170 billion more for immigration enforcement. Increased immigration enforcement has scared many immigrants into staying home, members of the panel said. Polls suggest that Trump’s immigration raids are unpopular.