Patricia Lopez, Columnist

Food Prices Could Go Even Higher After These ICE Raids

October 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM UTC

Patricia Lopez is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics and policy. She is a former member of the editorial board at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where she also worked as a senior political editor and reporter.

Prices are climbing.
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The US Labor Department is sounding a stark warning that the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has devastated the ranks of agricultural workers and now may threaten the food supply.

It’s bad news for farmers, who have already been buffeted by this administration’s tariffs, as well as for US consumers, who sent President Donald Trump back to the White House because they were fed up with pandemic-era inflation.