"Self-imposed lockdowns, surveillance fears and forced separations: life for California’s undocumented farmworkers" | California | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/28/ice-raid-farm-workers-california
"It’s unclear what percentage of farm workers in Monterey county – one of the California counties with the highest number of farm workers – have legal status, but scanning his crew of 25 workers, Peligro counts only one citizen, two who have visas and two who are currently protected by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), the 2012 program that gives work permits and temporary status to undocumented migrants who came to the US as children. That means that in this field, 80% of workers are undocumented.
The political climate for these workers is leading to chronic hyper-vigilance – a self-imposed lockdown eerily reminiscent of the pandemic’s earliest days, but with the additional, ever-present fear of surveillance, disappearance and forced separation from one’s US-born children."
~ Isabeau Doucet
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/28/ice-raid-farm-workers-california
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