Experts, including the U.S. Labor Department, have been warning about this moment since Trump took office. Scrolling through social media, a troubling new set of reels keeps popping up in my feed: farmers , alongside news reports , sharing videos of fields full of ripe crops going unharvested as immigration crackdowns scare off — or deport — the workers needed to pick them. According to a 2022 government survey , 42% of farmworkers lack work authorization, and 19% are authorized immigrants (but