In an interview with the Red River Farm Network, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig was less than optimistic about the passage of meaningful farm labor reform this year. “Mainly because the Department of Homeland Security is out there doing things right now; they were just sitting outside near a dairy farm in my district this week.” Craig said last week’s incident in Minneapolis complicates an already difficult issue. “No one wants undocumented individuals who have violent criminal records in our country, but I do think there is an awful lot of law-abiding undocumented immigrants working in the farm economy right now that, unfortunately, this administration is not distinguishing between one or the other.” Listen to the RRFN interview with Representative Craig.
