Hispanic workers fear tougher immigration rules, Arizona farmer says

An Arizona farmer put pressure on a more functional approach to hiring a skilled workforce in agriculture in the middle of the border repression of President Donald Trump, telling Fox News Digital that the current system breaks among Hispanic workers.

During a visit to the distant mountainous landscape of Dudleyville, Arizona, the farmer Scott Heartquist expressed the desire for more collaboration between business owners, workers and immigration authorities to find practical solutions that meet work needs – while confirming the law of the United States.

“There is a humanitarian side that everyone is:” I feel for them “,” said Heartquist, referring to qualified workers who seek to enter the country. “And I even understand that our system is not set up so that they can easily enter.”

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Farmer Scott Heartquist hopes that the immigration system and the process to obtain visas for workers will become easier under President Trump. (Fox News Digital)

While some farmers have experienced problems with migrants who intrude or steal their properties, Heartquist said that his personal relationship and his support for the Hispanic community have enabled him to manage his business without problem.

“Immigration is such a delicate subject and, you know, we were just talking about it-my staff. They are all legal, but a good part of the people in the community are not. And therefore, we see it, we have it. We have much less problem now,” he said.

The family farm started on a small land in Arizona. After surviving bone cancer, Scott Heartquist’s wife, Christie, worked with her husband to teach their children where their food comes from by cultivating and increasing a healthy supply of meat.

The family uses their own transformation factory inspected in the ranch, offering hormones, without steroids, without vaccine and without antibiotic fed with grass and pork, pork and lamb to the inhabitants.

The Heartquist family cultivated not only a solid company but also a very united commune. Several family members and staff live on the Heartquist Hollow Farm property in Dudleyville – often sharing meals and fresh stories after a hard day of work.

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A staff member takes care of a group of sheep at Heartquist Hollow Farm. These sheep are one of the many sources of food for the family and business. (Fox News Digital)

During a hot dinner in summer evening, Saúl Márquez, a butcher on the farm, said that he was grateful that the family offered good working conditions and strong advantages to their immigrant workers.

Márquez also praised God for allowing his daughter to flourish as a citizen in the United States – an important step which helped him and his wife, to obtain a permanent residence three years ago.

“My friends say that you are winning very well here. So you risk coming here illegally because it is the American dream. It is the American dream. And everyone will take a risk. Before, it was easy, now it’s not easy,” he told Fox News Digital.

He also recommended that immigrants explore legal paths to come to the United States, such as working visas for agricultural jobs, rather than trying to enter illegally – stressing that the current political climate has increased concerns among documented and unocured Hispanic workers.

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Two cows are grazing on a pile of grass at Heartquist Hollow Farm in Dudleyville, Arizona. (Fox News Digital)

“You hear a lot about the new administration,” said Márquez. “We are, and people have, very frightened. Because I have friends and family who, unfortunately, have no documents yet. So for the moment, there is a lot of fear with this administration that people do not want to go to shops.”

A combination of factors – including labor shortages for meat cutters and the heavy process of obtaining visas – has made it difficult for heartsquist to hire workers with all the skills necessary to provide the community with a wide range of high meats high in grazing.

Heartquist said that many of these questions arise from the Obama administration.

“You have had abuses in certain areas, and instead of dealing with individual abuses, they simply cut the visas. And therefore, they made it more difficult for us to get the visas,” he said.

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“I can tell you at the moment, 16 and 17 years ago in Mexico and Central America which cut meat. To be able to bring them, give them more training, teach them food security problems, and all these parts would be incredible. We simply cannot. It is not integrated into our system,” said Heartquist.

Without a more robust system and discussions on the potential to bring workers from other countries to meet these labor needs, Heartquist predicted that immigration problems will continue to proliferate.

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“We are going to have mass deportations that will occur at the moment. The administration will change in three years,” he said. “Perhaps it will always be strict on the border, maybe this will not be the case, and therefore we will have another attack, another flood of people arriving. The problem we are facing is … There is a small part of this community which is really not good people, and that is bleeding throughout the community and it is not fair.”