Latino Farmer Asks Trump: Food Without Immigrants?

Trump's town hall with Univision was a train wreck, so expect most of our corporate media to just ignore it. Here's one of the questions he was asked by a Latino farmer, Jorge Velásquez, who had concerns about Trump's plans for mass deportations.

VELASQUEZ: For many years, I have worked with these hands, hunched over, picking strawberries and cutting broccoli. This tough job is mainly done by undocumented people. If you deport to these people, who would do that job and what price would we pay for food?

Trump's response. To lie once again about immigrants supposedly coming from countries that were “emptying out” jails and “mental institutions”.

Here's his meandering response where he never actually addresses the farmer's concerns:

TRUMP: So, the problem we have is, we had people coming in under my administration, and they were coming in legally, they were coming in through a system that we had, which was great. Because I'm the best thing that ever happened to farmers.

You know that. I was great. You know, farmers are doing very badly right now, very, very badly under this administration. Under my administration, farmers did very well. We have to have a lot of people come into our country.

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