Rollins suggests Medicaid recipients can replace deported farmworkers. [View all]
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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters Tuesday that she thinks Medicaid work requirements and automation will help offset President Trump’s massive immigration crackdown, which has threatened migrant farmworkers.
“There’s been a lot of noise in the last few days and a lot of questions about where the president stands and his vision for farm labor,” Rollins said during a news conference with Republican governors. “Ultimately, the answer on this is automation, also some reform within the current governing structure, and then also, when you think about there are 34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid program, there are plenty of workers in America.”
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“What we’re going to do is we’re going to do something for farmers where we can let the farmer sort of be in charge,” Trump told Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo. “The farmer knows he’s not going to hire a murderer.”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5389919-agriculture-secretary-migrant-laborers/
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