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The GDP from the industry would contract by 14% without this workforce, the Bay Area Council Economic Institute and the UC Merced report said.

California is home to roughly 2.28 million undocumented immigrants, representing 8% of workers in the state, according to a June report from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute and the UC Merced.

In California, more than 75% are undocumented, according to the University of California, Merced.

Though a growing number of farm laborers are migrants imported on a seasonal basis through the controversial H-2A visa program, at least half the state’s 255,700 farmworkers are undocumented immigrants, according to UC Merced research.

Farm Tour 2025 hit California’s Merced, Fresno and Kern counties in May and will play three Midwest shows in September.