President Donald Trump and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday ruled out granting legal status to undocumented farmworkers, reiterating that the administration’s stepped-up immigration enforcement will proceed despite concerns from growers about labor shortages. At a Cabinet meeting, Trump said, “We’ve got to give the farmers the people they need, but we’re not talking amnesty,” echoing remarks Rollins made earlier in the day at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Rollins told reporters that “there will be no amnesty” and that mass deportations would continue “in a strategic way.” She said the administration aims for “100 percent American participation” in farm labor by combining automation with recruitment of some of the 34 million able-bodied adults who are enrolled in Medicaid and newly subject to work requirements. She also noted that the Labor Department’s H-2A seasonal-worker visa program remains the primary legal channel for foreign farm labor. U.S. agriculture relies heavily on undocumented workers: government estimates put the national farm workforce at about 2.4 million people, with roughly 40 percent lacking legal status. Grower groups have warned that large-scale removals could disrupt planting and harvesting and squeeze food supplies, but immigration hard-liners close to the White House have pressed Trump to reject any pathway that resembles legalization. Beyond labor policy, Rollins said the USDA will accelerate plans to restrict foreign ownership of farmland and strengthen supply-chain security. Neither she nor the president provided a timeline for how domestic workers or automation would replace deported laborers, leaving farmers uncertain about how quickly relief might arrive.