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US (CA): ICE raids leaving "strawberry capital" workers in fear

A wave of recent immigration roundups has cast a shadow of fear and anxiety over the agricultural town of Oxnard, California, a region known as the strawberry capital. The heightened enforcement has left the farmworker community, including Mexican migrant Flor, grappling with profound stress.

Flor, who works picking strawberries, highlights the devastating toll these raids are taking on the children of farmworkers. Many young people are experiencing depression and a constant dread that their parents could be detained and deported at any moment.

A single mother to three US citizen daughters, Flor holds a permit to work in the fields. Yet, even for her, the daily routine is fraught with apprehension.

She describes a palpable sense of relief each afternoon when she collects her children from school, knowing she has made it through another day. The emotional burden on her family is immense, with Flor stating: "It hurts my soul that every time I leave the house they say, 'Mommy, be careful because they can catch you and they can send you to Mexico and we will have to stay here without you'.

Read more at The Independent