Immigrant workers who strengthen our food faces increasing threats

Agricultural workers works south of Bakersfield, in Kern district, California Bread, 9. April 2025 (Photography Frederic J. Brown / AFP) (photo Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images)

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Difficult-working people who strengthen our food and agricultural systems – as farmers, food packers, processors, catering workers and more often receive credit, fair payment and social support they deserve.

And this is not accidental, especially when these food workers are immigrants, whether undocumented or documented.

According to the Trump Administration in the United States, working permits for more than 530,000 immigrants, including hundreds of thousands in the food product system, are abolished. These people are now faced with deportation. For some working permit in the United States, their escape from humanitarian crises or persecution.

Even when the undocumented immigrants remain in the United States, they are demonized here in rhetoric and politics. In July, she announced Trump-Vance Administration to reduce undocumented people who are basic health services in clinic clinics receiving federal funding. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump said on TV news, talking about immigrants working in the food system, that “these people do it of course.” Comments and actions like these are, honest, dehumanizing and racist.

Many people find workers’ farms to be able to do, but “that is not true” says Tereza Romero from the united farms. “Agricultural workers are professional. They understand what to do, when it should be done and how.”

I think about all this as we approach the day of work in the United States, which is Monday, 1. September.

Two things are true at the same time. First, our food system would fasten to stop without neighbors and friends and friends who work hard to build funds for life for their families. Immigrants, regardless of the status of documentation, make up more than three-fourth crop workers in the US, in accordance with the Pew Research Center Over the minesota reformer.

Secondly and it should pass without talking to many ways that undocumented immigrants contribute to food and agriculture systems and they can reduce food food, we cannot reduce immigrants only for their work. People are people, wherever they were born and wherever they live.

The real conversation we must have is more than the work and food systems: These are our common humanity.

So I hope that we will all use the day of work as an opportunity to recognize and celebrate priceless lives of all people, through each phase in the food chain. As we see each other in real time, we all rely on each other to ask ourselves and our families. As a result of these increased deportation efforts, it is simple that “now you will remain enough workers, because Phil Kafarakis,” says Phil Kafarakis, the President of the IMFA, which will be deprived of food and environmentally harmful eating waste.

“He really messed up our industry, and our (restaurant) owners only suffer because of these policies” Says Michele CoriglianoExecutive Director of the Lake Lake Restaurant Association in Juta.

Dan of work and every day, we must fight for positive forces such as unions, fair salary, safe working conditions and freedoms not to be feared by the right to deportate the workplace and support all people humanity, dignity, means and goodness and well-being!

“Agricultural workers are best equipped to solve injustices facing when they have a platform from which they vote their complaints and negotiate their working conditions”, says Baldemar VelaskuezPresident Farm Organizing Committee.

We all find ways that not only parties contribute to immigrants to our dietary system, but also to strengthen, protect our neighbors and advocates for a joint community policy that recognizes our common humanity.