N.Y. Times Quotes Professor Saucedo on Concessions for Ag Industry on Immigration Enforcement

The New York Times quoted Professor Leticia Saucedo in a June 12 story about how President Donald Trump acknowledged that his immigration crackdown is hurting the agriculture and hotel industries.

At a June 12 news conference, Trump acknowledged that his administration’s aggressive immigration raids were affecting those industries. “We can’t do that to our farmers, and leisure, too … hotels,” he said, adding that an “order” would be coming soon.

Times reporter Hamed Aleaziz quoted comments made by Saucedo in April about how the government historically has listened to complaints from the agricultural industry.

In the past, Saucedo said, “the federal government has heeded the requests of growers and other employers to exempt their workers from restrictive immigration policies,” including a program in the 1940s that allowed Mexican farmworkers to enter the United States for more than two decades.

Leticia Saucedo,  a professor of law at UC Davis School of Law, is an expert in employment, labor, and immigration law and the co-director of the UC Davis Labor and Community Center of the Greater Capital Region.