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John Duarte: “We're importing about 20 million tons of Mexican produce…”

Featuring: John Duarte, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 13

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Published | Video Starts at 53:52

But what happened to all the hand labor crops? If we look at Mexico, we were importing about 4 million tons of mexican produce a year in 2000. Today We're importing about 20 million tons of Mexican produce here in 2022, 2023. And we have the last numbers, and that's going straight up. There's a lot of information coming to us that many of these produce mexican, micho cana, avocado industry. (53:52–53:58)

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