MAGA Farmers Allegedly Beg for Immigrant Workers After ICE Raids Leave 70% of California Farm Labour Missing

Damning report finds 'no evidence' Trump’s ICE raids help American workers

President Donald Trump has spent years insisting that immigrant communities are “taking our jobs” and that expelling migrants via the mass deportation campaign he’s imposed on cities and towns across the country would swiftly result in an employment boom—but a new study reveals how aggressive raids by federal agents are resulting in a decline in employment for US-born citizens as well as their immigrant neighbors and coworkers.A study authored b…

MAGA Farmers Allegedly Beg for Immigrant Workers After ICE Raids Leave 70% of California Farm Labour Missing

Fields filled with ripe fruit should be a sign of a successful harvest. Instead, many California farms are reportedly watching crops spoil before they can be picked. Following widespread immigration enforcement raids, growers say a large share of their workforce has disappeared, leaving farms struggling to keep up with the harvest. The labour shortage has become so severe that some farmers who once supported tougher immigration policies are now …

Letter: Immigrant workers are true Americans

“Abolish Ice”, a sign captured in the Free Lance photo featured in the coverage of the protest at the Gilroy construction site for an ICE detention center. Of course we don’t want our spinach, carrots, onions and garlic spoiled by a police state. I easily observe farm workers picking and packing lettuce in the hot sun.   Yet we are persecuting these people! Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE according to this paper are constructing a fac…