Farm Groups Ask Biden to Secure Border, Enforce US Immigration Laws

Texas State Troopers look across the river at a group of boys swimming in the Rio Grande near the border between Mexico and the United States in Del Rio, Texas on May 16, 2021. Sergio Flores/AFP via Getty Images

The Texas Farm Bureau and 50 other state and national farming organizations have asked the Biden administration to “enforce legal immigration” after an influx of illegal immigration resulted in a crime wave impacting ranchers and farmers.

“The current situation should not be acceptable to you or to any American,” they write to the secretaries of the U.S. departments of Homeland Security, Agriculture and Interior. “People are being treated as a disposable source of income, and landowners are living in fear while Coyotes [human smugglers] reap a windfall from leaving people destitute. You must not allow this to continue. On behalf of farm and ranch families and our communities, we urge you to recognize the crisis and take swift action.”