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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Local leaders are reacting to this week’s ICE raids successful Southern California. Folks similar Manuel Cunha and Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria are calling retired the Trump medication for its handling of ICE raids. They said hard-working families are surviving successful fear.
"Every time my farmers person nary thought and they're frightened to death. But the radical that are frightened the astir are the workers and their families," President of the Nisei Farmers League Manuel Cunha said.
The President of the Nisei Farmers League is speaking up aft a bid of ICE raids and protests successful Southern California turned convulsive and deadly. He says what we saw successful the southbound could hap successful the Central Valley.
“The fearfulness is are they going to bash the aforesaid happening with the tanks, the armored instrumentality and each of that?”
Cunha said the shocking events successful Ventura County could perchance halt workplace workers from going to work.
“Those farmers are going to suffer it all. Those workers are going to suffer each their jobs. Many different workers that don't spell to work, however bash they provender their children now,” Cunha said.
It’s not conscionable Cunha sounding the alarm. Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria is besides acrophobic for the radical she represents. She's besides the Chair of the Assembly Agriculture Committee.
“When you're going aft hard-working radical that are waking up astatine 3 successful the greeting to spell and prime successful the fields. It's really, truly upsetting,” Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria said.
Assemblywoman Soria says the Trump medication isn’t being wholly honorable astir the ICE raids.
“Data has present shown aft galore weeks of doing these enforcement, that galore of them person turned into violence. Many of the folks that are being arrested, detained and deported are not criminals,” Soria said.
Fresno City Councilmember Annalisa Perea shares akin feelings. She said something's got to give.
“The past happening we privation is household separation. That is not ideology successful America. And truthful I deliberation it's clip for federal, authorities and section agencies to travel to the array and to deed the reset,” Fresno City Councilmember Annalisa Perea said.
And due to the fact that the full satellite is babelike connected Central Valley Ag production.
“Any disruption to that manufacture is not conscionable devastating,” Perea said.
“We are going to jeopardize nutrient information successful this nation, that prices are going to spell up due to the fact that fields are going to spell unharvested,” Soria added.
Cunha said the ongoing raids could alteration the full scenery of agriculture successful the Central Valley.
“You travel successful and bash that with 1 oregon 2 of our packing houses. The 58 tiny agrarian communities would abruptly adust up. It would beryllium a full disaster,” Cunha said.
Cunha besides says if you are a workplace worker, marque definite you ever person valid recognition connected hand.
