By Molly Claire Goddard
2:06pm PDT, Jun 29, 2025
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Donald Trump is thinking of calling on farmers to help him curb illegal immigration. While speaking with reporters at an airport in Morristown, New Jersey, the president was asked about how Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids across the country will affect America's farms. However, the idea he proposed in a lengthy rant may be more than farmers can handle: The former reality star implied the burden will fall on them to weed out the illegal immigrants they employ. He then went even further, referring to the process as a "war."
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While Donald Trump and his administration upped their goal of daily arrests of illegal immigrants, the Republican leader claimed the actions won't "hurt" farmers. "ICE has said that they're trying to arrest up to 3,000 individuals a day. There are some communities that are saying they are fearful of being wrongfully detained or separating some families, even if they're undocumented. Is the fear in some of these communities worth the deportations of these undocumented individuals, a mass deportation process?" one reporter asked Trump. Replied the president, "It's always a tough subject, because look, we have farmers. I love farmers. I won 80%, 85% of the farmers and I love them. And I'm never going to do anything to hurt our farmers,. There are some businesses where you have a disproportionate amount of people that are the people that you're talking about. … At the same time, we had to get the criminals out of our country and we're looking at doing something. … In the case of good, reputable farmers, they can take responsibility for the people that they hire and let them have responsibility because we can't put the farms out of business and at the same time, we don't want to hurt people that aren't criminals."
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Per usual, Donald Trump then put the blame on former President Joe Biden for his more laidback policy on immigration: "Most of the people who came in over the last three years under Biden — I would say probably three and a half to four years — those people you have a lot of criminals. I mean we're looking at that very closely. You've had people that have worked on farms for 20 years. It's very hard to go in there and say, you know, yeah, you're coming out."
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Despite the heavy ask of farmers, Donald Trump claimed workers would be okay with the burden: "But we're going to let the farmers take responsibility. They're great people, they'll do it. They know the good and the bad. So, the hard part about this is it's not like a normal war that where people wear uniforms. They don't wear uniforms," he said. "But we have murderers that came out of the last four years. We have murderers. We have drug lords. We have people that we don't want to — we have prisoners. They emptied out Venezuela and many countries. They emptied out their prisons into the United States. We have to get those people out. But we've got stone-cold murderers — 11,888 murders. We've already gotten a lot of them out of here, but we don't want them. So we have to be careful. But I never want to hurt our farmers. Our farmers are great people. They keep us happy and healthy and fat."
