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.

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.

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 worried?

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,