Trump Asked: ‘What Is Your Direction To ICE When It Comes To Arresting Farm Workers Here Illegally?’

During a roundtable at Alligator Alcatraz in Florida, President Trump was asked about how he plans to direct ICE.

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00:00Yeah.

00:01Claire Gall with Wink News in Fort Myers.

00:07What is your direction to ICE when it comes to arresting farm workers here illegally,

00:11other workers in industries that are pretty critical to Florida's economy?

00:14Well, we're very much cognizant of that.

00:17And as you know, I won the farmers by 92 percent, and I'm not going to be abandoning my farmers.

00:22We were strong on the borders, but we're also strong for the farmers and for others in the

00:27hotel industry, et cetera.

00:28You know, we have similar situations.

00:31And Christy and I, and we'll be working with Ron in a lot of the states.

00:35We're going to work something where the farmers can be responsible for some of the people

00:39that have been.

00:40They have people, Ron, for 10, 15 years that they know very well.

00:43We're going to put them responsible and have, we're going to issue a form of a card or document,

00:49and the farmers are going to be responsible for these people.

00:52They're not going to have citizenship, but they'll be working, they'll be paying taxes.

00:56We need to get our farmers the people they need.

00:58Otherwise, our farmers aren't going to be able to do their land.

01:00You know, it was tried once before, many, many years ago, where there was a very strong

01:04guy.

01:05And he got everybody out and every farm almost in the country, but every farm in California,

01:11every farm in Iowa, almost all the farms went bankrupt.

01:13They had nobody to work, and we don't want to have that situation.

01:16So we're going to work it.

01:17We're going to put our farmers and others in charge of the people that they have under

01:22them.

01:23They know the people.

01:24And I think it's going to work out really well.

01:25We're going to take care of our farmer, but we're going to get the criminals out.

01:29Yeah, go ahead, please.

01:32Go ahead, please.