Hiding in the fields – afraid of farm workers from deportation in the shadows of California

The women kneel between inactive, inactive, inactive, fruit bushes are almost hidden from the image.

“Are you from ice?” One of the women, a farm worker, a farm worker, asks us to fear the hat and purple.

After raided the nearest farms and ensuring that the employees holding employees in the last week, the US immigration and customs execution (ice) make a little rising employees.

“Have you seen any ice van? Do you have patrol cars there?” He asks, not sure that we can trust us and that he can emerge.

A woman with an undocumented migrant from Mexico, since the US arrived two years ago, Oxnard receives berries in Oxnard. It is a city that boasts by being “the world of strawberries.”

Working on Wednesday, he hid in areas waiting for his colleagues, hiding in areas, and to be elected by a friend and stay safe.

The previous day was visited by ice agents on the nine farms in the Oxnard, local activists said, but were refused without search guarantees, and instead they took people on the streets instead.

Raids in the workplace President Donald Trump is part of the detention of 3,000 undocumented immigrants a day. Noncizens accused of violent crimes on the campaign trail, even some Spaniards promised to promise a wide support.

However, in Los Angeles, there were sometimes fierce folk lags and street protests, he wanted to send it to the second largest city in the United States.

“We treat us like a criminal, but we just came here to work and had a better life,” he said.

“We don’t want to leave home anymore. We don’t want to go to the store. We are afraid of them.”

In the heart of California, the large-scale raids in the workplace have not been seen in the last 15 years, says a society organizer Lucas Zucker in the Central Bank of California.

But this has changed last week.

“They are only swept through immigrant communities such as Oxnard, they are looking to seek those who can meet political management quotas,” he says.

More than 40% of US farm workers are undocumented immigrants, According to the US Department of Agriculture, 2022. More than 75% in California are undocumented, According to the University of California, Merced.

Raids in farms and enterprises, which rely on the agricultural industry in California and the entire country, and this month have been exposed to the ramp.

In the event of arrests, arrested in the event of migrants arrested or hidden in migrants, he removed the fears of America’s food supply.

This effect is not lost in the White House. After the mass deportation of the mass deportation of mass deportation, the election decisively, Trump acknowledged that the hard time was hit compared to the agricultural sector.

“Our farmers are offended in a bad way. You know, there are many good employees. It has been working for 20 years.

In April, some migrants could be allowed to continue working in the United States, while their employer has officially advised us, and said they left us for the first time.

As a result of a raid in Oxnard on Tuesday, 60 miles (100 km) in the center of Los Angeles, can be seen in a video sent to Instagram by a local merchant.

Shows a short clip Agents are a man working in a wide area of ​​a pig fog, as infantry and trucks have persecuted in pedestrian and trucks. Then, as the agents moved to arrest him, he sees that the ranks of plants.

BBC, when visiting Oxnard on Wednesday, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) truck was seen a truck parked outside an organic product company. The security guard insisted that they were visiting that their visits were not related to immigration: “It’s not ice. We will not put ice here.”

Many tractors and trucks were covered with many tractors and trucks who choose to stay in the house of employees.

The effect affects ripple to other enterprises. Watching his family from the Mexican restaurant, Raquel Pérez tries to enter the Masked CBP agents, Boskovic farms, plant and grass packaging facility along the street.

Now his case, Casa Grande Cafe, the farm workers were left at home because there is only one customer during normal busy dinner hours. He estimates that at least half of the normal customer is undocumented.

“No one came today,” said his mother Paula Pérez. “We all have the edge.”

Raquel says the restaurant is now worried about the future – the customers continue to work as usual, more concerned about chilagils and other Mexican flavors during the covet.

“It doesn’t implement domino effect,” he said. Other companies that trust the agricultural surroundings have already been affected. Buying and selling and selling neighbors, wooden palettes are closed and local car mechanic.

“If strawberries or vegetables are not selected, it means nothing will happen to the packaging houses. It means that it means the truck to buy items.”

A migrant, raids that sell strawberries from the truck on the side of the road, have a devastating effect – both in their work and in the hope of being a legitimate resident of the United States.

“There are fewer people for trips and get less than me,” Tlaxcala’s children from Mexico, and there are children born in the United States.

“I’m afraid but I can’t stop going to work. I need to give my family,” he says.

Oscar says it is trying to finalize the status of immigration, but with ice agents, it is not sure what to do next to migrants who want to process documentation now.

“There is no way here many ways here.”