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Brooke Rollins: “Those farmers are paying $2 an hour over there [in Mexico].”

Featuring: Brooke Rollins, Republican | United States Secretary of Agriculture | National

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Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC

Published | Video Starts at 39:05

And our South Texas, the citrus farmers down there, think about in Mexico, for some of them, half a mile away, they can see it right across the border now through the wall, they can see it. And it's $2 an hour. Those farmers are paying $2 an hour over there [in Mexico]. You come across on our side and with everything that we're required to do and Pay, and it's 20 to $23 an hour, how do you compete? You're growing the same crops. (39:05–39:08)

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Asserts that farmers in Mexico pay $2 an hour for labor.

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