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Brooke Rollins: “You come across on our side and with everything that we're…”

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 39:07

… 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. 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. You can't. And so that's what we really have to focus on. Our dairy farmers, you know, the visa programs don't work for them. (39:07–39:15)

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Asserts that labor costs $20 to $23 an hour in the U.S. for farmers.

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