“Farmworkers’ Voices Are Not Being Heard”: UFW President Teresa Romero on ICE Raids & Workers’ Lives

“Farmworkers’ Voices Are Not Being Heard”: UFW President Teresa Romero on ICE Raids & Workers’ Lives

The Trump administration’s mass deportation machine continues to shatter families and communities with violent, indiscriminate raids on schools, homes and workplaces. Farms are a particular target of its brutal, racist crackdown; around two-thirds of U.S. farmworkers are immigrants, largely from Mexico. Earlier this month, a raid on a farm in California turned fatal when 57-year-old Jaime Alanís died after falling from the roof of a greenhouse. D

Farmworkers Plan Statewide Strike to Protest Immigration Raids in California – GASAN

A coalition of farmworker and immigrant rights groups announced a three-day labor strike beginning Wednesday in protest of the Trump administration’s stepped-up immigration enforcement across California’s agricultural regions. The strike, which will last from July 16 to July 18, is being organized by activists, laborers, and community leaders who say the recent wave of federal immigration raids has disrupted families, spread fear in rural commun…