Hanford native, Trump's labor secretary visits Clovis to talk immigrant workers, job training

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- During her archetypal travel to California arsenic labour secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer visited a acquainted spot connected Friday: the Central Valley.

"It's bully to beryllium home," she said. "Nice to beryllium home."

The caput sat down for a roundtable astatine Wawona Frozen Foods successful Clovis to perceive astir the region's Good Job workforce improvement program.

"Being a portion of a team, being successful complaint of their idiosyncratic information and the information of others. They get each of that portion getting the method knowledge," Stephen Avila said of the program.

The Valley workforce is idiosyncratic for the secretary. She grew up successful Hanford and remembered packing peaches arsenic her archetypal job.

In 1986, she graduated from Hanford High and earned a concern grade from Fresno State.

She roseate done section authorities successful Oregon and past landed successful Congress. Now a subordinate of President Trump's Cabinet, she oversees labour nationwide...

"About 9,000 jobs came online," she said. "228,000 jobs past (month), but 9,000 successful manufacturing."

The secretary's sojourn comes connected the eve of President Trump's 100th time successful office. She hinted that the adjacent 100 days of the Trump presidency volition beryllium what she described arsenic adjacent much exciting.

"I truly telephone him the president of the American worker. Because this is his focus, and it's precisely wherefore helium nominated maine to bash this job, to alteration the mode we bash concern successful this country," Secretary Chavez-DeRemer said.

But arsenic the caput brought the president's connection to town, immoderate Valley workers are acrophobic astir caller migration raids.

Federal information shows astir fractional of California's workplace workers could beryllium undocumented. Thousands are present successful the Valley.

Border Czar Tom Homan has said, "No one's disconnected the table."

"We speech astir the visa program. I cognize that we're talking astir year-round erstwhile we're talking astir agriculture. Secretary Noem and I volition beryllium having these meetings," Secretary Chavez-DeRemer said.

She suggested a caller programme could assistance migrant farmworkers.

"We don't privation to displace the American worker, but we surely request to supplement and complement American businesses wherever they request it most. We cognize there's a batch of cultivation industries each crossed the state - Very finite magnitude of clip to get products successful and out, and we request to workforce to bash that."

For quality updates, travel Gabe Ferris connected Facebook, X and Instagram.