Hiking the price of importing Mexican tomatoes would have hit demand, potentially driving farmworkers to cross the US border.
Donald Trump's decision to ditch provisional tariffs on Mexican tomatoes may have prevented an onrush of undocumented immigrants to the US,Hiking the cost of importing Mexican tomatoes would have hit demand, potentially driving farmworkers to cross the US border in search of employment.
The president may have backed down for one big reason. Hiking the cost of bringing Mexican tomatoes into the US would have hit demand and hurt Mexico's agricultural industry, potentially driving farmworkers to cross the border in search of employment. "I need to go wherever the work is," Lorenzo Juárez, a Mexican farmworker who picked strawberries as an undocumented immigrant in California around six years ago, told Bloomberg. Higher tomato tariffs"might mean returning to the north," he added.
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