UFW Survey Finds 92% of US Farm Workers Hit by Trump Raid, Deportation Fears
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Updated · The Guardian · Jul 30
UFW Survey Finds 92% of US Farm Workers Hit by Trump Raid, Deportation Fears
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jul 30
Summary
A UFW Foundation survey of 2,250 farm workers found 92% said raids and deportations have affected their employment, underscoring how Trump’s intensified immigration enforcement is reshaping daily work in the fields.
Ninety percent said they fear family separation, while 61% are shopping less and 29% are avoiding medical care because they fear being stopped by immigration authorities.
Those anxieties reach deep into a long-settled workforce: 80% said they have lived in the US for more than 10 years and 41% for more than 20 years.
The survey points to broad demand for legal protection, with 76% wanting safeguards from deportation and detention and 53% hoping for a pathway to legal status and citizenship.
That matters across a sector with more than 2.6 million US farm workers, many of them noncitizen immigrants, though DHS did not immediately comment on the findings.