Americans will feel impact of immigration enforcement on farms, union president warns

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Source: NPR

Updated June 13, 2025 1:06 PM ET


As immigration enforcement ramps up, the head of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union says agriculture workers across the country are afraid to show up for work – and warned that fear could impact households across the country. This week, federal agents reportedly swept through farms in California. Last month, immigration agents stopped a bus in upstate New York and detained more than a dozen farm workers.

The union, which represents thousands of workers across the country, says such incidents are becoming more common. "Even though they're terrified, they're scared, they're showing up to work," Teresa Romero, president of the United Farm Workers union, told Morning Edition. "They need to pay the rent, they need to pay the utilities, they need to feed their family."

On Tuesday, UFW – founded by civil rights activist Cesar Chavez – called on agricultural employers to "harden" their worksites by educating workers and staff about their rights as well as legal requirements for law enforcement to enter worksites. The federal government estimates that around 40% of crop farmworkers lack work authorization. Romero discussed the reported immigration enforcement actions on farms and how these may impact kitchen tables across the country.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security declined to confirm the raids to NPR. The agency also did not respond to specific questions from Morning Edition about enforcement actions targeting farmworkers. Meanwhile, the FBI posted on social media about assisting in recent immigration operations.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/13/nx-s1-5431612/trump-ice-farm-raids-united-farm-workers-union

[forgotmylogin]

1. I remember in high school Social Studies, we learned about the Soviet Union.

The usual story was "blue jeans are hard to get and very valuable, almost like a status symbol." They'd show pictures of sparse offerings in nearly empty grocery stores.

That's gonna be us soon with all our farm laborers deported, and tariffs nobody will pay for.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. "That's gonna be us soon with all our farm laborers deported"

We had been there done that during the pandemic as many of those workers got infected with COVID and local supplies (let alone the imports) were disrupted, with empty shelves of almost everything!

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Many people don't have very long attention spans in our new world...

Chris Hayes wrote a book about it.




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[BumRushDaShow]

4. I mentioned in a different post

about how I couldn't find a bag of frozen chicken wings (generic or name brand), literally for a year during the pandemic. But I'll add that it took just as long to find a bag of frozen peach slices (I keep bags of different frozen fresh fruit to use for oatmeal like strawberries, mixed raspberries/blackberries/blueberries, etc).

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Folks have ...

NO IDEA what's coming.