Midterms 2026: The farmers calling for more migrant workers

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: Midterms 2026: The farmers calling for more migrant workers © Barbara Gabel / France 24 03:44 Issued on: 20/10/2026 - 15:09 As the US midterms approach, immigration is once again dominating the country’s political discourse and Arizona’s largely agricultural Yuma County, just miles from the Mexican border, is no exception. But here, farmers like John Boelts are calling for more legal migrants, warning that without the labour they provide essential crops may go to waste or never be planted at all. France 24’s Sam Ball and Barbara Gabel sent this report. Keywords for this article