Concerns about a lack of labor farms due to immigration reform “has been and continues to be an issue,” said former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, while commenting to Newsmax about confirmation hearings for Brooke Rollins, the nominee for his onetime job.

“Our H-2A program was very ineffective,” Perdue, who worked during President Donald Trump’s first administration, told “Wake Up America.” “We had worked during my term in the first Trump administration in order to streamline that, and we were not ultimately successful. We were stopped by some situations in labor that I thought were really unfair.”

The H-2A program allows U.S. employers to bring in foreign workers for temporary agricultural work, helping employers who do not have enough domestic workers.

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