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Just 10 miles from the Rio Grande, Mike Helle's farm is so short of immigrant workers that he's replaced 450 acres of labor-intensive leafy greens with crops that can be harvested by machinery.
After immigration to the United States tapered off during the Trump administration then ground to a near complete halt for 18 months during the coronavirus.
The U.S. is experiencing a labor shortage that s partly fueled by a drop-off in immigration, which ground to a halt during the coronavirus pandemic. By some estimates, the U.S. now has 2 million fewer immigrants than it would have if the pace had stayed the same.