Farmers, Seasonal Businesses Worry as Immigration Crackdown Ramps Up

Farmers, Seasonal Businesses Worry as Immigration Crackdown Ramps Up

This story was originally published by the Maine Monitor.Tractors stand at the ready along rolling wild blueberry barrens Downeast, where fields of naked stems offer no hint of the glorious techno-color display to come. By late spring, roughly 47,000 acres across Washington and Hancock counties will be carpeted in white blossoms before bursting into tiny blueberries.But new federal immigration policies and ramped-up deportations have businesses …