(ABC13) - As the 2017 growing season begins this spring, those winemakers are dealing with a Trump administration hell-bent on cleaning up illegal immigration. As a result, a labor shortage has made it more difficult to find experienced labor and when growers do find it, they pay more money than ever for it.

Are immigrants taking jobs away from Americans in the fields? "I had one in forty-three years. He worked eight hours and disappeared," said vineyard manager Chuy Ordaz.

Ordaz came to the United States from Palo Alto, Mexico, as an undocumented immigrant in 1973. As a citizen, he manages hundreds of acres of high-end vineyards. "It is really hard to find people," he said.

When asked what he worries about, winemaker Eric Luce, who runs the small, but highly respected Eric Ross Winery in Glen Ellen said, "I worry about getting the fruit in."

He blames both current President Donald Trump, but also former President Barack Obama.

"I'm just an American citizen trying to work a small vineyard, and this should have been handled fifteen years ago," Luce told ABC News.