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Abandoned by Trump, a Farmer and a Migrant Search for a Better Future

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Earlier this year, the Trump administration suspended billions in agricultural funding. Swept up in the freeze was JJ Ficken of eastern Colorado, a farmer who had agreed to hire an immigrant from Guatemala through a federal program intended to help fill jobs Americans won’t take. Suddenly, both men’s futures depended on the whims of Washington: “I tried to do things right,” JJ said, because he could have taken on an undocumented laborer at any …
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Abandoned by Trump, a Farmer and a Migrant Search for a Better Future

Earlier this year, the Trump administration suspended billions in agricultural funding. Swept up in the freeze was JJ Ficken of eastern Colorado, a farmer who had agreed to hire an immigrant from Guatemala through a federal program intended to help fill jobs Americans won’t take. Suddenly, both men’s futures depended on the whims of Washington: “I tried to do things right,” JJ said, because he could have taken on an undocumented laborer at any …

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Trump's Cuts to IRA Funding are Anti-Climate and Anti-Farmer

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Conservation Law Foundation broke the news in on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.
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