{"id":2454316,"date":"2025-07-01T14:58:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/farm-exceptions-would-create-new-immigration-fraud-highway\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:00:06","slug":"farm-exceptions-would-create-new-immigration-fraud-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/farm-exceptions-would-create-new-immigration-fraud-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Exceptions Would Create New Immigration Fraud Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffarm-exceptions-would-create-new-immigration-fraud-highway%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2454316&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Trump announced plans to create a &#8220;temporary pass&#8221; for undocumented immigrants working in the agriculture and hospitality sectors. Critics argue that this policy could encourage further illegal immigration, contradicting the intentions of voters who supported Trump&#8217;s stricter border enforcement. Similar concerns arise regarding the Biden governance&#8217;s approach, which includes allowing migrants to remain in the U.S. while asylum claims are processed. Trump&#8217;s decision has led to worries that it undermines enforcement credibility and may grant amnesty to up to two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-will-expand-immigrant-access-to-us-health-plans\/\" title=\"... will expand immigrant access to US health plans\">million undocumented individuals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, experts highlight that Trump&#8217;s proposal might worsen the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inflation-and-consumer-sentiment-readings-tough-for-biden-in-election-year\/\" title=\"Inflation and consumer sentiment present challenges for ... in election year\">labor market situation<\/a> by preventing innovation, as legal guest worker programs already exist. Critics emphasize that such measures will divert attention from the need for American workers and question the consistency of Trump&#8217;s stance on immigration. the proposal has sparked significant debate on its potential effects on immigration policy and labor dynamics in the U.S.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/06\/30\/america-deserves-better-than-amnesty-for-the-politically-connected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;on Sunday that he&rsquo;s developing a &ldquo;temporary pass&rdquo; for illegal aliens working in the farming and hospitality industries. But such an effort would open the door for more noncitizens to enter the country illegally, the opposite of what Americans elected Trump to do.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration also offered illegal aliens special protections to live and work in the U.S. When Biden revoked the Remain in Mexico Policy, he allowed migrants to remain in the country while their applications were processed. As The Federalist&rsquo;s John Daniel Davidson <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/21\/trumps-executive-orders-on-immigration-prove-biden-could-have-secured-the-border-at-any-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a>, such a policy incentivizes bogus asylum applications with a &ldquo;years-long pass&rdquo; into the United States as claims make their way through the backlogged immigration courts.<\/p>\n<p>When Trump instated Remain in Mexico during his first term, the &ldquo;number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-ended-trumps-remain-in-mexico-policy-now-at-least-10000-migrants-whose-claims-were-denied-will-register-for-asylum\/\" title=\"... Ended Trump\u2019s \u2018... in Mexico\u2019 .... Now At Least 10,000 Migrants Whose Claims Were Denied Will Register For Asylum\">illegal crossings plummeted<\/a>,&rdquo; Davidson wrote. Under Biden, an <a href=\"https:\/\/budget.house.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/ogr_icymi.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">estimated<\/a> 1.7 million evaded border control, and, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org\/fact-sheet\/asylum-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to the left-wing American Immigration Council, there were more than 1.<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >4 million affirmative asylum applications pending<\/a> with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as of December.<\/p>\n<p>Voters elected Trump to fix the border crisis and are standing by this decision. Polling just last month revealed that 80 percent of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/harvardharrispoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HHP_June2025_KeyResults.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Americans<\/a>&nbsp;support the deportation of illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in the U.S., and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/deportation-immigration-opinion-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">majority<\/a> of Americans are in favor of deporting all illegal aliens. Yet the carve-outs Trump signaled would once again pave the way for illegal aliens to exploit the&nbsp;protections.<\/p>\n<p>The possibility that immigrants will take advantage of the temporary passes is &ldquo;certainly&rdquo; a cause for concern, Center of Immigration Studies (CIS) Director of Research Steven Camarota told The Federalist.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;By saying we&rsquo;re going to tolerate illegal immigration, it destroys Trump&rsquo;s credibility, the credibility of enforcement, and takes what is a legal system and basically makes it meaningless,&rdquo; Camarota said.<\/p>\n<p>The new exemption could give about 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-bidens-immigration-policies-may-fuel-migrant-caravan-crisis-at-southern-border\/\" title=\"Analysis: ...\u2019s ... policies may fuel migrant caravan crisis at southern border\">million illegal immigrants<\/a> amnesty, CIS <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Richwine\/Administrative-Amnesty-Could-Exempt-Two-Million-Illegal-Immigrants-Deportation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a> based on numbers from January.<\/p>\n<p>Trump justified his proposed policy by <a href=\"https:\/\/fox59.com\/news\/national-world\/trump-says-there-will-be-temporary-pass-for-migrant-farm-hotel-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arguing<\/a> that &ldquo;we can&rsquo;t put the farms out of business,&rdquo; stating that &ldquo;we&rsquo;re going to work it so that, some kind of a temporary pass, where people pay taxes, where the farmer can have a little control as opposed to you walk in and take everybody away.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;From the farmer&rsquo;s point of view, what&rsquo;s not to like? He gets the worker he wants at a relatively low price, then the American taxpayer picks up health care and education for his children and so forth,&rdquo; Camarota said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re finally seeing real impact on self&#8209;deportations &mdash; and now DHS is about to pull the rug out from under the very process that made it possible,&rdquo; said Marguerite Telford, director of communications for CIS. A million illegal immigrants have left the workforce since March, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2025\/06\/06\/jobs-report-may-unemployment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although the details of the &ldquo;temporary pass&rdquo; are currently vague, Camarota said the &ldquo;big thing&rdquo; about the pass is that it &ldquo;stifles innovation and the adoption of labor-saving devices.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The United States already has an unlimited agricultural guest worker program called H-2A, but it requires you to pay workers a certain amount, treat them in certain ways, and to house them in certain ways,&rdquo; Camarota said. <\/p>\n<p>During Trump&rsquo;s interview, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-urges-temporary-pass-from-immigration-crackdown-key-industries-i-cherish-our-farmers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> that &ldquo;a lot of people aren&rsquo;t going to do&rdquo; farm labor jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Between January 2020 and January 2025, 88 percent of the job growth went to immigrants, <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Camarota\/New-January-Data-Still-Shows-Most-Job-Growth-Going-Immigrants-88-2020-72-last-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to CIS. They also <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Report\/Jobs-Americans-Will-Do-Just-About-All-Them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a> that Americans will do &ldquo;just about all&rdquo; jobs and that &ldquo;natives outnumber immigrants in all but a handful [of occupations], and in none of them do&nbsp;<em>illegal<\/em>&nbsp;immigrants constitute a majority.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Telford noted that the move by Trump seems to contradict his message to the American people that &ldquo;illegal immigration is illegal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s either illegal or it&rsquo;s not,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t they want Americans working?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If I am asking myself which industries are next to get a pass on hiring illegal&nbsp;workers, then surely those&nbsp;not permitted to work in this country are wondering the same thing,&rdquo; Telford said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Abigail Nichols is a correspondent for The Federalist. She was previously the opinion editor for the University of South Florida&#8217;s student newspaper, The Oracle. She is now working as the business manager at the University of North Florida&#8217;s student-run media outlet, Spinnaker Media, while obtaining a Master&#8217;s Degree in Social work.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump plans a &#8220;temporary pass&#8221; for illegal farm and hospitality workers, potentially increasing illegal immigration, contrary to voters&#8217; wishes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3849,"featured_media":2454317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/pexels-nc-farm-bureau-mark-9798988-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[24412,58240,6909,3813],"class_list":["post-2454316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-exceptions","tag-farm-2","tag-fraud","tag-immigration"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/pexels-nc-farm-bureau-mark-9798988-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454321,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454316\/revisions\/2454321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2454317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}