Immigration raids scare California farmers, not just their workers
PUBLISHED: April 11, 2017 at 7:36 am | UPDATED: April 11, 2017 at 7:51 am
The specter of peaches and oranges and apricots and artichokes rotting on the ground or on trees hangs over California agriculture this spring, in the wake of a series of immigration raids during the first months of President Trump’s administration.
If you want to know why it’s not merely undocumented immigrants who fear the prospect of more and larger raids — the first set of them in February saw federal agents net about 600 people in this country illegally nationwide and a reported 109 in California — it helps to look back to the early 2000s. There is no accurate count of how many have been rounded up since.
http://www.pe.com/2017/04/11/immigration-raids-scare-california-farmers-not-just-their-workers/
