When Workers Disappear: How Immigration Raids Could Empty America's Grocery Shelves
Empty Fields Signal Growing Food Crisis: Immigration raids across the United States are creating serious problems for farms that grow the food we eat every day. High-profile immigration raids are scaring off workers and leaving employers unsure of how they'll manage without them. In some areas, up to 75 percent of farm workers did not report for duty in some regions after ICE enforcement. The impact is happening right now. Farmers in California, Texas, and other states report that their workers are too scared to come to work. Some farms have completely shut down for days at a time. This means crops are not being planted, harvested, or processed when they need to be.