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BBC NewsWomen skipped motionless, kneeling between endless rows of fruit bushes, almost hidden from views.
“Are you from the ice?” One of the women, farmers in a hat and purple bandani, she asks us terrible.
After we assure that we are not immigration and customs enforcement (ice), which is excessive near farms and arrest workers over the past week, it is correcting the back, and slightly increased from dirt.
“Have you seen any iced vans? Are there patrol cars there?” He asks, still insecure if we can trust us and she can show up.
A woman, an undocumented migrant from Mexico, chooses berries in Octooney, California, because he arrives in the US two years ago. It is a city that boasts that “Strawberry is the capital of the world”.
As her work shift ended Wednesday, she and her associates hid in the fields, waiting for a friend to pick them up and uncertainly whether it was safe to pull into the parking lot.
The assumption of the day, nine farms in the Octoard area visited the ice agents, say local activists, but without the search orders, and instead picked people on the nearby streets, arrest 35.
Working labor raids are part of the goal of President Donald Trump to arrest 3,000 undocumented immigrants a day. At the trail of the campaign, he promised to deport an uncitized accused of violent crimes, a promise that received broad support, even among some Hispanics.
But in Los Angeles there was a public tape and street protests that sometimes became violent, encouraging him to controversially sent into the army to the second largest city in the US.
“They treat us like criminals, but we just came to work and have a better life,” said a woman, who left his children in Mexico two years ago and hopes to return them next year.
“We don’t want to leave the house more. We don’t want to go to the store. We’re afraid to catch us.”
Large raids in the workplaces in California Agricultural Heart have not seen the last 15 years, says Lucas Zucker, a community organizer in the central region of Central Coast in California.
But it seems that it changed the past week.
“They just erase through immigrant communities like the shaft indispensively, looking for anyone that they can find to satisfy their politically guided quotas,” he says.
More than 40% of American farmers are undocumented immigrants, According to a report 2022 by the US Ministry of Agriculture. In California, more than 75% are undocumented, According to California University, Merced.
Racije on farms and companies that rely on the agricultural industry throughout California, and across the country, this month they increased.
The arrests raised fears of a lack of food supply, if migrants were arrested or forced to hide, fearing that they would come to work.
BBC NewsThis impact is not lost on the White House. Despite reliance in the elections determined after the promise of mass deportations, Trump recognized the difficult time of its crack on Thursday.
“Our farmers are badly injured. You know, they have very good workers. They worked for 20 years. They are not citizens, but they turned out to be, they knew they were great.”
In April, it said that some migrants can be authorized to continue working in the United States, provided they have a formal recommendation from their employer and to leave the United States first.
The result of one attack on Tuesday in Oknard, the municipality of 60 miles (100 km) from Los Angeles, can be seen in the video published on Instagram by local flowers.
Short shots shots The man who leads in a large crop area, through a fog of fat morning fog, because agents give chasing on foot and trucks. Then it was seen falling on the ground, among the ranks of plants, because agents are moving to arrest him.
When the BBC visited Oknard on Wednesday, American customs and border protection (CBP) was seen parked outside the organic company. The security guard insisted that their visit was not associated with immigration, saying, “This is not LED. We would never allow ice here.”
Many tractors and trucks sat in an empty walk surrounded by an agricultural land hectar, as an unknown number of workers who chose to stay at home.
The impact is to have ripcolene effects on other companies. Watching from the Mexican Restaurant family, Rakuel Perez has seen a CBP-masked agencies trying to enter Boškovicki farms, vegetables and plant packaging across the street.
Now her business, Casa Grande Cafe, has only one customer during a normal busy handle, because workers on farms stayed at home. It estimates that at least half of its normal clientele are undocumented.
“Nobody came in today,” says her mother, Paula Perez. “We’re all on the edge.”
Rakuel says now is more concerned for the future of restaurants – serving ciliquyl, flannas and other Mexican delicacies – than it was during consultation, when her customers continued their work as usual, guarding the nation that is nationally food.
“They don’t realize that the domino effect will have,” she says about attacks. Other companies around it that rely on agriculture are already affected. The neighboring purchase of business and sales of wooden pallets is a closed and local car mechanic.
“If strawberries or vegetables are not choosing, it means there will be nothing that enters the packaging houses. Which means there will be no truck to take on things.”
Migrant sales strawberries from the roadboard on the side of the road, says that raids already had the disabilities of the deaving – both on his job and hopes and hopes of becoming a legal resident of the United States.
“Less people go out on excursions and buy less than me,” Oscar says, who comes from the Mexican state, and, while in an indulpted, there are children born in the United States.
“I’m afraid, but I can’t stop going to work. I have to provide my family,” he says.
Oscar says he worked on the finalization of his immigration status, but with ice agents who are now waiting outside the migrant courts who want to process paperwork, unsure that it is not able to do the following.
“There aren’t many ways to be legal here.”
