Illegal migrants who work on U.S. farms will not be given amnesty and could be subjected to mass deportation efforts as the Trump administration strives for “a 100% American workforce,” Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said Tuesday.

Rollins, though, did say the administration needs to be “strategic in how we are implementing the mass deportation so as not to compromise our food supply.”

President Donald Trump last week in Iowa said he’s willing to let migrant laborers stay in the U.S. if the farmers they work for will vouch for them. He added he was working with the Homeland Security Department to help farmers who depend on migrant laborers for their seasonal needs.

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