Trump Offers New Visa Program for Migrant Workers

“This is not amnesty. It’s not amnesty lite,” the official told the publication. “No one who is illegally here is being given a pathway to citizenship or residency.”

The employers, Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, shared that his “policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace.”

“In many cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy are applying for those jobs,” Trump wrote. “This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!”

One Trump advisor told Axios that the post served as “the bat signal to ICE” to “leave the farmers alone.”

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, said that farmers dug themselves into a hole by not taking Trump’s threats of carrying out a historic deportation campaign seriously.

“They should have known this was coming,” Krikorian told The Post.

“That’s not the way it has to be done. That is the business model they have followed. And they should have known eight months ago that they needed to start making adjustments,” said Krikorian.

Krikorian said these farmers have access to the “unlimited” H-2A visa program for agricultural workers, but didn’t want to shell out the extra cash to provide required wages.

He added: “It’s an unlimited program, but it has certain requirements related to pay and transportation and housing. And the farmers just want to not bother. Well, sorry, but they’ve had eight months to work with companies that actually arrange the H-2A process.”