Source: POLITICO'S MORNING AGRICULTURE, 6/19/18

Even with a growing backlash over the Trump administration's move to separate migrant children from their parents at the border, top aides to President Donald Trump are planning additional restrictions on immigration before the November midterm elections, POLITICO's Nancy Cook reports. And this time farmers may feel the pain: These changes could include limiting the number of agricultural temporary workers and thereby worsening agriculture's labor shortage.

Why target ag workers? Cook reports Trump aides hope that by September, these changes would show voters that he fulfilled his immigration promises, pleasing even those who had hoped for a border wall.

Wasn't progress being made on guest worker program? The news left members of the agriculture community scratching their heads. Just last month, the Agriculture, Labor, State and Homeland Security departments issued a joint release saying they were working together to revamp the H-2A agricultural guest worker program to address farmers' long-held concerns over requirements and restrictions, Pro's Sabrina Rodriguez reported. Those plans involved reducing "cumbersome bureaucracy and ensuring adequate protections for U.S. workers." It's unclear what will now happen to those efforts.