"Farmworkers' Voices Are Not Being Heard": UFW President Teresa Romero on ICE Raids & Workers' Lives

[Omaha Steve]

FULL story and video: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/16/farmworkers_trump_immigration_crackdown_ufw_union

The Trump administration’s mass deportation machine continues to shatter families and communities with violent, indiscriminate raids on schools, homes and workplaces. Farms are a particular target of its brutal, racist crackdown; around two-thirds of U.S. farmworkers are immigrants, largely from Mexico. Earlier this month, a raid on a farm in California turned fatal when 57-year-old Jaime Alanís died after falling from the roof of a greenhouse. Dozens of his fellow workers were rounded up and loaded onto buses destined for a detention center. Many of the targeted farmworkers are members of the United Farm Workers, the nation’s oldest farmworkers’ union. Its president, Teresa Romero, a longtime labor leader who is the first Latina and first immigrant to head the organization, says “farmworkers are terrified.” She says that “replacing people who are experienced, who are professional, who have been in agriculture, working sometimes for decades, [is] not how we should repay them for the sacrifice and hard work,” and adds that “sooner or later, the agriculture industry is going to suffer.”

[in2herbs]

1. There was a video a week or two ago telling the farm workers to participate in a strike and to stay home

during the strike. Are there more details???