ICE expands immigration raids into California's agricultural heartland (LA Times)

[LauraInLA]

1/2 of CA farm workers are undocumented. There’s lots more info in this article.
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Alarm spread through California agricultural centers Tuesday as panicked workers reported that federal immigration authorities — who had largely refrained from major enforcement action in farming communities in the first months of the Trump administration — were showing up at farm fields and packinghouses from the Central Coast to the San Joaquin Valley.


In Tulare County, near the community of Richgrove, immigration agents emerged near a field where farm laborers were picking blueberries, causing some workers to flee. In Fresno County, workers reported federal agents, some in Border Patrol trucks, in the fields near Kingsburg.

And in Oxnard in Ventura County, organizers responded to multiple calls of federal immigration authorities staging near fields and entering a packinghouse at Boskovich Farms. Hazel Davalos of the group Cause, said there were reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents trying to access multiple farms in Oxnard, but that in many cases, they were denied entry.


Farmworker advocates noted that Tuesday’s raids came despite a judicial ruling stemming from a rogue Border Patrol action in Kern County this year.



https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-10/ice-expands-immigration-raids-into-californias-agricultural-heartland
OR https://archive.ph/0hSN7

[travelingthrulife]

1. and none of those farm owners will be charged for hiring undocumented workers.

[Ocelot II]

3. If it weren't for the undocumented workers they'd have no workers at all.

Blueberries are going to get really expensive.

[Rebl2]

4. Maybe the

farm owners should be the FIRST to be charged for hiring undocumented workers.

[atreides1]

5. True

But, it also means that they won't be able to bring their crops in to sell.

[Nixie]

2. This is why the war on California isn't really about immigration

(as we all know). It’s to cripple our economy for political purposes. They want to say they need to come in and fix everything,

[FirstLight]

6. THIS! I hope Newsom and others are awake enough...

Maybe there's good reason to keep our Fed taxes if ICE is going to fuck with our economy...

Also, berries and some other produce has not looked too hot lately... it only gonna get worse. I'm in Nor Cal