{"id":103438,"date":"2025-12-17T10:56:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/farmworkers-pursue-the-american-dream-in-fear-of-ice-raids\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T10:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:56:39","slug":"farmworkers-pursue-the-american-dream-in-fear-of-ice-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/farmworkers-pursue-the-american-dream-in-fear-of-ice-raids\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmworkers Pursue the American Dream in Fear of ICE Raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">California is home to some of the most productive agricultural land in the country, but it could not operate without the hundreds of thousands of farmworkers who harvest the food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Los Angeles Times reporter Brittny Mejia spent three days harvesting mini watermelons and cantaloupes alongside California farmworkers. She joins Scott to discuss the backbreaking work and what she learned from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-11-30\/hard-lives-in-california-fields-harvesting-watermelons\">conversations about their lives and growing fears<\/a> of ICE raids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check out\u00a0<a class=\"c-link c-link--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/newsletters\/political-breakdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/newsletters\/political-breakdown\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Political Breakdown\u2019s weekly newsletter<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/news\/2025\/12\/16\/farmworkers-pursue-the-american-dream-in-fear-of-ice-raids\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California is home to some of the most productive agricultural land in the country, but it could not operate without the hundreds of thousands of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}