Idaho farmer calls for new look at immigration policy amid raids
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🗓️ 16 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump's aggressive immigration enforcement is being felt across the country. |
| 0:05.2 | Immigration arrests have gone up in every state and more than doubled in 38 states. |
| 0:10.4 | The biggest increase is happening in Idaho, where since January 20th, ICE has made more than 300 arrests. |
| 0:17.7 | One Idaho farmer, Shea Myers, who grows onions and other vegetables, is speaking out on |
| 0:23.3 | behalf of his immigrant workforce. I know the undocumented workers that were talking about |
| 0:28.7 | deporting because I grew up in a small farming town. I went to school with kids that were undocumented. |
| 0:35.2 | My kids go to school in a small town with kids who may not be documented. |
| 0:39.3 | If we're going to do things the right way, we need to think about the human, |
| 0:43.3 | ethical side of mass deportation. |
| 0:46.3 | And farmer Shea Myers joins me now. |
| 0:49.3 | Shea, thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:51.3 | You voted for President Trump. He was very clear during his campaign |
| 0:58.0 | that he would do the things that he is now doing on immigration. But you have been critical |
| 1:03.5 | of some of these policies. I'm curious as to why you chose to speak out. |
| 1:08.4 | Yeah, William, thanks for having me on. I chose to speak out because it's wrong. |
| 1:12.0 | It's wrong for the people who have been here for decades upon decades |
| 1:15.0 | and who contribute on a daily basis to every aspect of the U.S. economy, |
| 1:19.9 | every aspect of the U.S. culture. |
| 1:23.1 | They're an important part of who we are. |
| 1:25.3 | But that message, what you're saying in the Republican Party in particular is not, |
| 1:31.4 | that's not a common theme that you hear. |
| 1:35.1 | That is true. |
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