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The SF Chronicle’s Stein: Deporting Illegal Immigrants ‘Could Cause the California Wine Industry to Collapse’

‘There are huge repercussions’
By Grabien Staff

EXCERPT:

STEIN: "There's been huge concern. There's been concerns for months during the campaign about potential deportations, but this is to a new level. There has been a guidance in place since 2011 that largely prevented, with some exceptions, ICE agents from entering churches, schools, places like that, to remove and deport migrants. The biggest concern right now is, yes, the small number of migrants who are still in those places and the more who may decide to go there, but in California, migrants are a huge part of the agricultural workforce and California produces much of the country’s food, and so without those migrants it could cause huge price surges in the food industry which we’re already seeing problems of people talking about not being able to afford groceries. It could cause that problem. It could also cause the California wine industry to collapse. So there are huge repercussions to deportation beyond just removing those people, many of whom lived here for years, if not decades."

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