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

A tenfold increase in the number of immigration detentions has compelled many workers to barely leave the farms where they work ‘They want to keep denying us our rights’: workers in Vermont’s $5.4bn dairy industry fight for basic labor protections 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. Continue reading...

Original source: Guardian