Since last fall, agricultural workers in California's Central Valley have had less work due to prolonged rain storms and the resulting flooding.
But undocumented immigrants are ineligible for unemployment insurance, disaster relief and many other safety net services. That’s left many farmworkers — like Mariano Carranza, an undocumented immigrant from Guerrero, Mexico who has lived in Fresno for more than 20 years — struggling to pay for groceries, rent and other bills.
“Sometimes we rely on our savings and use them all to get by,” Carranza said in Spanish during a meeting last Friday at Fresno City Hall.
