California's agricultural heartland is facing mounting losses as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids prompt large numbers of migrant farmworkers to abandon the fields in fear of arrest and deportation, a new report by Reuters reveals.
In Ventura County, a key farming region north of Los Angeles, growers report that up to 70% of laborers have disappeared from fields since early June, when ICE agents began ramping up their targeting of agricultural sites as part of President Donald Trump's intensified immigration enforcement campaign.
