If Trump's plans for mass deportations penetrate California’s heartland, it almost surely would decimate the workforce farmers rely on to plant and harvest their crops. So, why aren't farmers yelling in protest?

While most of the country took President-elect Donald Trump’s victory calmly, California has emerged as something of an exception. Shortly after Trump’s victory, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) called a special session of the state legislature to “safeguard California values and fundamental rights in the face of an incoming Trump administration.

When he was 18, Chanthon Bun recalled, he was the lookout during a Los Angeles robbery in which no one was hurt. He sentenced to 50 years in state prison.

An estimated 3 million undocumented residents in the greater LA area could be subject to Trump’s campaign promise of mass deportations. Legal experts and advocacy groups are preparing a

JD Vance and others on the “new right” say limiting immigration will raise wages and give jobs to sidelined Americans. Many studies suggest otherwise.

In his first administration, Trump promised the farm sector that his deportation effort would not target food sector workers, though the administration did conduct raids at some a

Trump’s vow to round up millions of immigrants and deport them in the largest deportation effort in U.S. history has industry groups that rely on immigrants spooked.

Farm owners and consumers would be impacted, too. “These threats to deport masses of people are going to reveal just how dependent our food system is on immigrant labor,” said UVM professor Teresa Mares.

Please Please Please As Donald Trump's second presidential transition hurdles ever forward, his plan to mass-deport undocumented immigrants is causing farmers to panic — and beg for exemptions. As Reuters reports,