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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Austyn Gaffney with visuals by Anna Watts

‘I don’t go out’: Vermont’s undocumented dairy workers live in fear after immigration raids

A farm worker is seen through a window of a dairy barn at dusk.
A farm worker cooks dinner inside a dairy barn in northern Vermont close to the US-Canada border in November. Photograph: Anna Watts/The Guardian

Last spring, José Edilberto Molina-Aguilar was resting in his bedroom when a co-worker burst through the front door. Out his window, Molina-Aguilar, a 37-year-old dairy worker from Chiapas, Mexico, caught sight of the olive green uniforms of immigration enforcement officials who later claimed they had pursued a worker on to the farm property.

A farm manager told Molina-Aguilar and five of his co-workers at Pleasant Valley Farms, Vermont’s largest dairy, in Berkshire, about three miles from the Canadian border, to come outside.

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