Monday, June 16, 2025

That's so mean. How can this possibly be deemed an adequate or acceptable way to treat people?

"'They don't realise the domino effect this is going to have,' she says about the raids. Other companies around her that rely on agriculture have already been affected. The adjacent business buying and selling wooden pallets is closed, and a local car mechanic too.


'If the strawberries or vegetables aren't picked, that means there's gonna be nothing coming into the packing houses. Which means there's not gonna be no trucks to take the stuff.'"


~ Max Matza and Leire Ventas

"Hiding in the fields - farm workers fearing deportion stay in the shadows"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c989zrggn14o

"They treat us like criminals, but we only came here to work and have a better life," says the woman, who left her children behind in Mexico two years ago and hopes to return to them next year.


"We don't want to leave the house anymore. We don't want to go to the store. We're afraid they'll catch us."


~ Max Matza and Leire Ventas

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