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Zorro

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Sat Jan 11, 2025, 11:33 AM Jan 11

'They just got my uncle': Immigration arrests spark fear among farmworkers in Central Valley [View all]

Maria Casarez was washing dishes at noon Tuesday in her three-bedroom duplex, tidying up before her four children arrived home from school when her husband’s nephew called.

“Acaba de agarrar a mi tío — inmigración,” he said. They just got my uncle, immigration.

The two had been talking at a Home Depot parking lot, less than a mile down the road from their home in Bakersfield when Border Patrol agents showed up and began asking questions.

Casarez dashed to the scene, where she said she saw a dozen agents. “It was ugly,” she said. They had already taken her husband away.

The Border Patrol operation near Bakersfield lasted for several days and netted 78 arrests this week, raising alarm bells across the Central Valley, where a largely immigrant workforce helps harvest a quarter of the food grown in the U.S.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-01-11/they-just-got-my-uncle-mass-immigration-arrests-spark-fear-among-farmworkers-in-central-valley

Here comes your lower grocery prices, MAGAts!

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They've been spotted here in Fresno as well. ItsjustMe Jan 11 #1
Who ordered these Border Patrol raids? Trump is not president yet, but is BP operating on its own now? Lonestarblue Jan 11 #2
Border Patrol is every bit as infested with MAGAts as our DOJ/FBI is. W_HAMILTON Jan 11 #6
'Border Patrol agents who posted racist, sexist content in Facebook groups remain on the job' sop Jan 11 #15
When food becomes scarce and prices go up, expect the MAGAs to say: Baitball Blogger Jan 11 #3
Yeah but... 2naSalit Jan 11 #4
Biden Issues Sweeping Deportation Protections republianmushroom Jan 11 #5
but how does this help others not from sudan, ukraine, venezuela? (from you pol. wire link below) orleans Jan 11 #8
Biden extends time in US for 800,000 Venezuelans, Salvadorans as Trump readies immigration crackdown republianmushroom Jan 11 #17
Application for field labor are ready for you MAGAs MagickMuffin Jan 11 #7
MAGAt delusion Envirogal Jan 11 #9
Can you see COL Mustard Jan 11 #16
Big Ag can afford bribes; small family farms can't... Auggie Jan 11 #10
Nazis being Nazis - Welcome to drumpf's America JoseBalow Jan 11 #11
A week-long farmworker strike should do the trick Bobstandard Jan 11 #12
Genius NotHardly Jan 11 #14
Would bdamomma Jan 11 #18
No. Thats giving cover to do-nothings Bobstandard Jan 11 #19
OMG so sorry. It's going to get worse. Prices will not go down. Less items to pick from. 😡 TommieMommy Jan 11 #13
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