Farmers and agriculture advocates across the United States are renewing calls for immigration reform, warning that undocumented workers remain central to the nation's food supply and that policies failing to recognize that reality are harming farms, labor markets and consumers, according to a new sprawling report from Barn Raiser.
"It is this sort of great big fat open secret that everybody understands, that there's tons of undocumented folks working in production agriculture, and specifically the dairy industry," Wisconsin dairy farmer Hans Breitenmoser told the outlet. "It's malpractice if it's coming from our policymakers."
