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7/1/2025, 12:57:55 AM No.509167728
YOU ARE DESTROYING THE ECONOMY
Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, California farms at risk
"In the fields, I would say 70% of the workers are gone," one farmer tells Reuters. "Most Americans donโt want to do this work. Most farmers here are barely breaking even."
One Mexican farm supervisor, who asked not to be named, was overseeing a field being prepared for planting strawberries last week. Usually he would have 300 workers, he said. On this day he had just 80. Another supervisor at a different farm said he usually has 80 workers in a field, but today just 17.
One, aged 54, has worked in U.S. agricultural fields for 30 years and has a wife and children in the country. He said most of his colleagues have stopped showing up for work.
โIf they show up to work, they donโt know if they will ever see their family again,โ he said.
The other worker in the country illegally told Reuters, โBasically, we wake up in the morning scared. We worry about the sun, the heat, and now a much bigger problem โ many not returning home. I try not to get into trouble on the street. Now, whoever gets arrested for any reason gets deported.โ
https://www.reuters.com/business/immigration-raids-leave-crops-unharvested-california-farms-risk-2025-06-30/
Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, California farms at risk
"In the fields, I would say 70% of the workers are gone," one farmer tells Reuters. "Most Americans donโt want to do this work. Most farmers here are barely breaking even."
One Mexican farm supervisor, who asked not to be named, was overseeing a field being prepared for planting strawberries last week. Usually he would have 300 workers, he said. On this day he had just 80. Another supervisor at a different farm said he usually has 80 workers in a field, but today just 17.
One, aged 54, has worked in U.S. agricultural fields for 30 years and has a wife and children in the country. He said most of his colleagues have stopped showing up for work.
โIf they show up to work, they donโt know if they will ever see their family again,โ he said.
The other worker in the country illegally told Reuters, โBasically, we wake up in the morning scared. We worry about the sun, the heat, and now a much bigger problem โ many not returning home. I try not to get into trouble on the street. Now, whoever gets arrested for any reason gets deported.โ
https://www.reuters.com/business/immigration-raids-leave-crops-unharvested-california-farms-risk-2025-06-30/
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