Foreign-born workers on New York’s fruit and dairy farms have sequestered themselves to avoid the administration’s deportation net.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30899007

By Ana Ley
Visuals by Hilary Swift
Ana Ley and Hilary Swift drove hundreds of miles through rural New York to meet with farmworkers and their children.
May 30, 2025

“They have seen federal agents sweep away a mother and her three children from their home on a dairy in the village of Sackets Harbor, N.Y. And they have heard about the food vendor arrested by the immigration police after she hit a deer in a snowstorm and sought help from a neighbor who reported her to the authorities. Officers then took her husband from work and their daughters, 6 and 9 years old, from school.”

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