This is a collaborative work of journalists Peter Schurmann, Nicol D z Magaloni and Manuel Ortiz Esc ez, from Pensula 360 Press and Ethnic Media Services.
From one day to the next, some agricultural farms in the Central Valley of California are looking empty, and the fact is that many of the hands that work these fields are undocumented immigrants who, now, for fear of being arrested and deported in ICE raids, have found themselves in the need to not go to work, a situation that not only affects their pockets, but also a vital sector for the state.
?The peasants in the area are very frightened, they were taken by surprise (by these raids). Most of these people are not going to work, so if the peasants stop, the Californian countryside stops. The Central Valley is an agricultural region and it is one of the most important in the world, that is to say, these peasants not only work to feed us in the United States but in a large part of the world and these are the devastating and terrible consequences of the raids.?
This was stated by Manuel Ortiz during the radio program of Pensula 360 Press on the program Made in California with Marcos Guti rez, where he introduced Mari P ez Ru , executive director of the Alliance for the Empowerment of the Central Valley, who highlighted the impact of the raids in Tulare County by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE, for its acronym in English).
"Our rural communities here in Tulare County have been impacted by ICE immigration raids. Some of the communities most affected were the indigenous communities in the states of Guerrero, Chiapas and Oaxaca, and it has also created a lot of concern in our agricultural community which is also made up of the Filipino community as well as the Mexicans," said P ez Ru .
The activist said that since the day the raids began, it was known that these agents went to gas stations, supermarkets, food stores and the countryside, places where immigrants do their daily tasks, claiming that they are looking for people who have something