The U.S. Labor Department is warning of a potential food crisis linked to President Trump’s immigration raids – and one family-owned farm is caught in the middle. "The near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens combined with the lack of an available legal workforce, results in significant disruptions to production costs and threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S consumers," according to a Department of Labor report submitted earlier in October. Owyhee Produce, a third-generation agricultural business in Idaho, is now facing worker shortages in the wake of the Trump administration's increasing deportation raids. Shay Myers, Owyhee Produce's general manager, said the farm typically has 300 workers at peak harvesting times, with roughly 82 H-2A visa

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