Trump's Mass Deportation Plan Could Keep Food Off American's Plates, Farming Industry Warns

Farm workers pull weeds in a field of organic spinach growing near the U.S.-Mexico border near El Centro, California. (Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Farm groups in the United States are warning President-elect Donald Trump that his mass deportation plan could upend the food supply with nearly half of farm workers lacking legal status.

The U.S. farm sector is urging Trump to exempt agricultural workers from his mass deportation plan, because the industry is dependent on the labor of undocumented immigrants, Reuters reported.