Sen. Schiff criticizes immigration policy, weighs in on impeaching Trump during one-on-one interview

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- California's archetypal legislator to service connected the Committee connected Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry successful 30 years, Democrat Adam Schiff, heard straight from Valley farmers during a roundtable this week.

The USDA, water, and tariffs were each topics of discussion, but migration was the main issue.

"In talking to farmers implicit the past mates of days, they're profoundly acrophobic astir the administration's migration policy," Schiff said during a one-on-one interrogation with Action News connected Thursday.

Earlier successful the day, Firebaugh husbandman Joe Del Bosque told the legislator that 20 of his workers had not shown up from Arizona owed to concerns implicit migration checkpoints on the route.

"If determination aren't going to beryllium radical to prime the food, it's going to spell rotten successful the fields, and that means that the effect that is and vegetables that are picked, the terms is going to spell up," Schiff said.

He called President Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" the "Big, Ugly Bill," and helium moved to artifact it from providing immoderate funds for migration enforcement astatine farms connected Monday. His effort failed.

"There were lone a constricted fig of amendments permitted, truthful I didn't person a accidental to property that," Schiff said. "But frankly, Republicans voted down each and each azygous amendment, truthful I'm not definite we would person overmuch success."

Democrats are successful the number successful the House and the Senate, wherever Schiff has flexed his oversight, often confronting officials wrong the president's circle.

"I'm funny successful whether you participated successful the willful violations of tribunal orders," helium told a Trump nominee during his enactment of questioning astatine a caller confirmation hearing.

But Pew Center probe from the outpouring reveals that "most Democrats accidental their party's elected officials are not pushing hard capable against Trump's policies."

"There are immoderate critics successful your ain enactment who accidental that Democrats should beryllium doing more, that they accidental it's a batch of speech and small action," we asked.

"There are constricted tools that we have, and we're trying to usage each of them," Schiff said. "We're utilizing litigation and a batch of the litigation has been precise successful. We're utilizing mobilization, and you saw 5 cardinal radical instrumentality to the streets connected No King's Day (to) explicit their views, galore of them connected these migration policies."

Critics of the president reason Trump has gone excessively acold by pushing the envelope connected tribunal orders and slashing authorities programs.

Two Congressmen person introduced articles of impeachment, including 1 conscionable past week.

Schiff, past a subordinate of the U.S. House, led the archetypal impeachment proceedings against Trump successful 2020...

"Do you deliberation what we person seen successful this medication truthful acold rises to that level of impeachment?" Action News asked.

"I'd alternatively absorption our fights connected trying to get things done - Build much lodging successful California, astir the country, for example, I privation to spot a lodging roar successful this country, stopping atrocious things from happening wherever we can, doing our oversight - I deliberation that's the astir productive usage of our time," Schiff said.

Senator Schiff and President Trump person had a agelong adversarial relationship. The legislator investigated the president connected the January 6th Committee and aboriginal received a pardon from President Biden.

Their feud has played retired successful nationalist view. Trump has called the legislator "Shifty Schiff," and Schiff has equated Trump to a "3rd Grade Class President."

"Is determination immoderate narration determination betwixt yourself and the administration, the White House?" Action News asked.

"I've developed a narration with the Agriculture Secretary, and erstwhile they announced they were shutting down each the ag offices of California, I weighed in, (and) we were capable to keep, I think, 8 retired of 9 of those offices open," Schiff said. "So, I effort to enactment and get things done, careless of enactment and careless of who the president is."

Schiff besides told Action News helium has spoken with Valley Republican lawmakers, including Vince Fong and David Valadao, astir perchance moving unneurotic connected Central Valley issues.

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