As ICE Raids on Agricultural Businesses Ramp Up, Farmers and Workers Are Growing Uneasy
News of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids on dairy farms in Vermont and Texas, to produce farms in California and a meatpacking plant in Nebraska, where dozens of workers were whisked away in buses, immigrant workers and their employers are understandably on edge.
Most farmers, ranchers and produce farm owners believed the Trump administration was interested in rounding up and deporting violent criminals and would leave the agricultural workforce unscathed. However, the government’s push to detain record numbers of undocumented immigrants has set off a “whole new wave of panic,” Chris Thomas, an attorney who represents employers in immigration cases, told USA TODAY...
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