Employees Terrified of ICE Raids Are Failing to Show Up at Work
High-profile immigration raids are scaring off workers and leaving employers unsure of how they’ll manage without them.
US farms already struggling to find enough crop hands are finding it even harder amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Photographer: Ivan Kashinsky/Bloomberg
The Los Angeles garment district is emptied out. Texas dairy farmers say workers aren’t showing up to milk cows. An Idaho onion grower already struggling to find enough crop hands says his labor supply is only getting worse.
And in Ventura, California, Deputy Mayor Doug Halter said that after nearby immigration raids targeted day laborers outside of Home Depots, all the Latinos seemed to have disappeared from one of the retailer’s outposts near him. Walking through the aisles the other day, from what he could tell, there were only White people. “If you know this area, you’ll know that is abnormal.”