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Why CA farmers who backed Trump are 'reckoning with an uncomfortable contradiction'

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Politico's Camille von Kaenel reports that California farmers "could soon enjoy bumper crops" but are "reckoning with an uncomfortable contradiction": Trump "also campaigned on mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, who make up at least half of the state's agricultural workforce" Some Californians in the agricultural industry backed Trump because of his promise to lift water restrictions.