The man looks out at the empty field, squinting: It's midday and the Central Florida sun is intense. To the untrained eye, this looks like a large dry plot of land. But it's one of the most important stages of strawberry farming: preparing the soil for planting so that by next spring, this field is bursting with juicy berries.

He's been farming this land since the 1980s, but "things changed, almost overnight," he laments.

President Trump's immigration policies, including mass detentions and deportations, have dealt him a crippling blow, he says.

"The government is killing farming," he says. "This is going to end us."

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F. is an immigrant himself, and asked to be referred to only by his first initial because he's afraid of retaliation for criticizing the administra

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