Business Leaders Try to Influence Immigration Policy

One group to watch amid the numerous changes that a new year and new presidential administration have brought – and uncertainties about what impacts they will have – is the Business Roundtable. The group represents business interests with members including prominent corporate executives.

Business Roundtable notable members include:

• Land O’Lakes CEO Beth Ford

• Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai

• The Allstate Corporation President/CEO Tom Wilson

• General Motors CEO Mary Barra

• Amazon President/CEO Andy Jassey

• Citi CEO Jane Fraser

• TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett

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The group supports the Trump administration’s push for additional security on the southern border, a key campaign promise that the returning president made. It is also a tenet that many Americans seem to support.

Land O’Lakes CEO Beth Ford leads the Business Roundtable. She wants the business leaders to inform the Trump administration on the needs that the industry has as the president implements policies that affect workers who live in the country without legal status and those who have legal temporary status. “Help them understand where there are potential gaps,” Ford told Fortune, “Whether it be in construction workers or agricultural workers.”

Immigrants are essential to agriculture, Ford wants the administration to remember. 

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