Farmworkers harvest corn in a field. Much of U.S. agriculture, including Idaho's dairy industry, relies on immigrant labor.

(BOISE, IDAHO) Under the second Trump administration, the United States has seen mass deportations and a sharp escalation in immigration enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security says the crackdown pushed nearly 3 million people out of the country in Trump’s first year back in office.

For the first time since the 1960s, the number of immigrants living in the U.S. is declining; because most farmworkers are foreign born, those losses are already beginning to strain American farms.

Originally published on theconversation.com, part of the BLOX Digital Content Exchange.

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