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Deportations, raids and visa access. How the presidential election could alter life for immigrant farmworkers.

The farmworkers scattered. There was a union representative in the workersโ€™ employer-provided housing, on an orchard in upstate New York. Their employer, major apple grower Porpiglia Farms, had hired them on H-2A, or temporary labor, visas. That day in August 2023, according to the workersโ€™ union, United Farm Workers, the orchardโ€™s owners burst in. The […]

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