The 64-person committee will meet regularly, according to the campaign, and advise the GOP presidential nominee on food production issues. The agriculture industry is at the center of the debate over immigration reform and depends heavily on Latin American immigrant labor to meet production demands.

The committee includes several high-profile politicians and governors, including Govs. Terry Branstad of Iowa, Sam Brownback of Kansas, Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, Jack Dalrymple of North Dakota and Dennis Daugaard of South Dakota. Former governors and presidential candidates Rick Perry of Texas and Jim Gilmore of Virginia are also on the committee.

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Several current and former executives for large food companies are also on the list. That group includes Bob Goodale, the former chief executive of Harris Teeter and Fair Oaks Farms dairy chief executive Mike McCloskey.

“The members of my agricultural advisory committee represent the best that America can offer to help serve agricultural communities," Trump said in a statement. "Many of these officials have been elected by their communities to solve the issues that impact our rural areas every day."

But several of those listed seem to be opposed to Trump's calls for mass deportation and strongly supported the comprehensive immigration reform package passed by the Senate in 2013. Trump has blasted the bill, which stalled in the House, and has characterized it as detrimental to U.S. workers.

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"When politicians talk about 'immigration reform' they mean: amnesty, cheap labor and open borders," Trump's website says about the bill. "The Schumer-Rubio immigration bill was nothing more than a giveaway to the corporate patrons who run both parties."

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Tom Nassif, president of the Western Growers trade group, has advocated for passing comprehensive immigration reform, calling it crucial to addressing a labor shortage in the agriculture industry.

Mike McCloskey, who worked on immigration issues with the National Milk Producers Federation, has said that cracking down immigrant labor would hurt the industry. The group has taken a strong position in favor of immigration reform that would help sustain the immigrant labor pool, warning that cutting workers from that pool would hurt U.S. consumers.

Also on the committee are Chuck Conner, the chief executive of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, and Steve Foglesong, a former president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. The farmers' council has advocated giving undocumented immigrants who work in the agriculture industry permanent legal status. The cattlemen's association has promoted strengthening border security but also giving undocumented workers path to a legal status.

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Trump's calls to deport millions of undocumented workers in the United States have been central to his candidacy, which he has framed as a necessary step to protect national security. He has suggested that a "deportation force" would be dispatched to deport the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants currently in the country.