Jessica Garrison

1 week ago | latimes.com | Jessica Garrison

As the crucial summer harvest season gets underway in California’s vast agricultural regions, farmers and their workers say they feel whiplashed by a series of contradictory signals about how the Trump administration’s determined crackdown on illegal immigration might affect them. California grows more than one-third of the country’s vegetables and more than three-quarters of the nation’s fruits and nuts in the fertile expanses of the Central Valley, Central Coast and other farming regions.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jessica Garrison |Melissa Gomez

As the crucial summer harvest season gets underway in California’s vast agricultural regions, farmers and their workers say they feel whiplashed by a series of contradictory signals about how the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration might affect them. California grows more than one-third of the country’s vegetables and more than three-quarters of the nation’s fruits and nuts in the fertile expanses of the Central Valley, Central Coast and other farming regions.

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Melissa Gomez |Jessica Garrison |Andrea Castillo

At 6 a.m. Wednesday, Juvenal Solano drove slowly along the cracked roads that border the fields of strawberry and celery that cloak this fertile expanse of Ventura County, his eyes peeled for signs of trouble. An eerie silence hung over the morning. The workers who would typically be shuffling up and down the strawberry rows were largely absent. The entry gates to many area farms were shut and locked. Still, Solano, a director with the Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project, felt relieved.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Melissa Gomez |Jessica Garrison |Andrea Castillo

12 hours ago• LA Restaurant News “It’s not just about restaurants. This is our entire country’s agricultural system that’s under attack.” by Mona Holmes Jun 11, 2025, 10:45 PM UTC Farm workers weed a bell pepper field in the sun as southern California is facing a heatwave, in Camarillo, on July 3 2024. Etienne …

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Jessica Garrison |Melissa Gomez

Alarm spread through California agricultural centers Tuesday as panicked workers reported that federal immigration authorities — who had largely refrained from major enforcement action in farming communities in the first months of the Trump administration — were showing up at farm fields and packing houses from the Central Coast to the San Joaquin Valley.