Trump: “Our Farmers Are Being Hurt Badly” By Deportations, “We’re Going To Have To Use A Lot Of Common Sense On That”
President Donald Trump on Thursday commented on the effect deportations are having on farms in the United States and said the administration will have to use “common sense.”
PETER DOOCY, FOX NEWS: What made you change your mind about targeting, in California, farmers and people in the hotel and leisure business? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, we’re not targeting. In fact, if you look today, I put out a statement today about farmers. Our farmers are being hurt badly by, you know, they have very good workers. They’ve worked for them for 20 years. They’re not citizens, but they’ve turned out to be, you know, great. And we’re going to have to do something about that. We can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don’t have maybe what they’re supposed to have, maybe not. And you know what’s going to happen and what is happening? They get rid of some of the people because, you know, you go into a farm and you look and people don’t – they’ve been there for 20, 25 years and they’ve worked great and the owner of the farm loves them and everything else, and then you’re supposed to throw them out. And you know what happens? They end up hiring the people, the criminals that have come in, the murderers from prisons and everything else. So we’re going to have an order on that pretty soon, I think. We can’t do that to our farmers, and leisure too, hotels. We’re going to have to use a lot of common sense on that.
