Federal police still arresting migrant farmworkers
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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents chased after migrants working at California farms in the latest set of immigration raids that triggered days of protest in the area.
In a post to Truth Social on Thursday, President Trump promised farmworkers that changes are coming to how ICE operations are conducted.
About 40% of agricultural workers in the United States are undocumented, and experts say the effect of these raids could be wide-ranging.
It's a visceral snapshot seized on by some to drive a discredited narrative that white farmers in the majority Black country are being targeted in a widespread, race-based system of persecution.
Amid a recent surge in arrests of immigrants allegedly living in the country illegally, some raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have drawn quiet concern from Republicans in Congress who largely back President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation project.
President Trump’s administration directed immigration officials to largely pause raids on farms, hotels, restaurants, and meatpacking plants. Reuters said that information came from an internal email,
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reportedly been active in the Central Coast and the San Joaquin Valley, particularly in agricultural areas with farm fields and packinghouses, like Tulare, Fresno and Ventura counties.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) targeted workers on produce farms in Ventura County Tuesday morning in one of the latest raids.
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission won’t say if immigration status will be used against victims.
The Wonderful Nurseries farmworkers, who received free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys, filed the federal complaint challenging portions of the ALRA in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, Fresno Division on May 19.
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