About 40% of farm workers in the U.S. are undocumented immigrants, and they’ve become a focus of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown. Terrorized farm workers have been forced into hiding, and farms themselves have been left empty of their workers.

Experts have long warned that Trump’s promise of mass deportations would threaten industries that rely on undocumented workers—like agriculture—and that it could lead to mass disruptions in our food system.

Now the Trump administration’s labor department seems to be admitting that itself.

In a document explaining the administration’s new rule cutting farmworker wages, the Department of Labor writes that the labor shortage, in part due to “increased [immigration] enforcement,” presents “a sufficient risk of supply shock-

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