'Farms will come to a stop': Farmer warns of soaring food prices and shortages under Trump
Raw StoryA lifetime farmer who lives in an area filled with signs supporting Donald Trump fears one of the president-elect's key campaign promises, according to a report. "We can't have deportations here because it would disrupt our food supply for our country," he told France24 in an interview. Trump's so-called "border czar," Tom Homan, has said he wants to deport at least 9 million immigrants along with their families regardless of citizenship status. "If you wanted to say, okay, everybody's going to get taken away—which I don't think is going to happen, and I have to emphasize that—mechanization is coming," Tom Barcellos, a dairy farmer, said in the report. If Trump makes good on the promise of deportations, implements 25 percent tariffs on all imports from Mexico or Central America and issues a 10 percent tariff on all other imports, it will mean a quick and dramatic increase in food prices, CBS News said in a report at the end of November.
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