Ventura County agricultural growers hurt by farmworker ICE raids
The ICE raids are taking a toll on growers and farmworkers in Southern California. Many people are scared to show up for work.
It's hitting the agricultural business in Ventura County especially hard.
Camarillo Nursery is open and behind it there is this big field. Alonso Peraza says it's unusual to see it so quiet.
"Normally you'd see like at least four crews working this field, but now it's empty because they're scared, they're not here. They don't want to show up to work," Peraza said.
On Tuesday, ICE agents targeted workers on produce farms in Ventura County. Video shows the agents chasing workers as they run through the fields.
"Around us, all the people here, they're losing all their field workers. Everybody, you eat what they plant," said Julia Gonzalez from Camarillo Nursery
President Donald Trump appears to be changing his stance on farmworkers. He was asked about the impact that these raids are having on the industry.
"Our farmers are being hurt badly, they have good workers that have worked for them for 20 years. They are not citizens, but turned out to be great. We will do something about that," said Trump.
Driving through Camarillo and Oxnard, workers could be seen in several other fields.
"Our farmworker population is mixed status so of course there are people that might feel more safe to go to work, but there are people who are not, so they decided to stay home," said Arcenio Lopez from Mixteco, an organization that represents the indigenous migrant community.
Lopez said his office received more than 10 texts and calls just this morning.
"We're speaking with some of the growers and they're telling us at least 40% of the workforce didn't show up for work," Lopez said.
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CDC denies Milwaukee’s request for help with unsafe lead levels in public schools
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has denied a request from Milwaukee’s public health department for assistance in managing unsafe lead levels in the city’s public schools, citing the loss of its lead experts in mass firings last week across federal health agencies.
“I sincerely regret to inform you that due to the complete loss of our Lead Program, we will be unable to support you with this EpiAid request,” Aaron Bernstein, director of the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at the CDC, wrote late last week to Milwaukee officials, according to a letter obtained by CNN.
EpiAid is a CDC program providing a short-term loan of an officer from the public health agency’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, or EIS. These “disease detectives” are sent to state and local health departments to investigate urgent public health problems.
In Milwaukee’s case, the city requested the CDC’s help March 26 with the investigation of lead exposure in its public schools, after the health department identified hazardous levels of lead contamination in multiple school buildings. CNN reported last week that Milwaukee’s health commissioner, Dr. Michael Totoraitis, had been working with the CDC for two months to address the threat.
Lead is toxic to the brain, and no levels of exposure are considered safe. It can be present in buildings constructed before 1978, when it was still legal to use lead in paint.
On April 1 – the day about 10,000 federal health employees lost their jobs as part of a massive Reduction in Force across the US Department of Health and Human Services – Milwaukee officials received an email from a CDC epidemiologist telling them “my entire division was eliminated today,” apologizing that she wouldn’t be able to continue working with the city on the response and referring them to other points of contact within the agency.
“The new points of contact were essentially unable to say what level of support they would provide us moving forward,” Totoraitis told CNN at the time.
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CDC denies Milwaukee’s request for help with unsafe lead levels in public schools
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has denied a request from Milwaukee’s public health department for assistance in managing unsafe lead levels in the city’s public schools, citing the loss of its lead experts in mass firings last week across federal health agencies.
“I sincerely regret to inform you that due to the complete loss of our Lead Program, we will be unable to support you with this EpiAid request,” Aaron Bernstein, director of the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at the CDC, wrote late last week to Milwaukee officials, according to a letter obtained by CNN.
EpiAid is a CDC program providing a short-term loan of an officer from the public health agency’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, or EIS. These “disease detectives” are sent to state and local health departments to investigate urgent public health problems.
In Milwaukee’s case, the city requested the CDC’s help March 26 with the investigation of lead exposure in its public schools, after the health department identified hazardous levels of lead contamination in multiple school buildings. CNN reported last week that Milwaukee’s health commissioner, Dr. Michael Totoraitis, had been working with the CDC for two months to address the threat.
Lead is toxic to the brain, and no levels of exposure are considered safe. It can be present in buildings constructed before 1978, when it was still legal to use lead in paint.
On April 1 – the day about 10,000 federal health employees lost their jobs as part of a massive Reduction in Force across the US Department of Health and Human Services – Milwaukee officials received an email from a CDC epidemiologist telling them “my entire division was eliminated today,” apologizing that she wouldn’t be able to continue working with the city on the response and referring them to other points of contact within the agency.
“The new points of contact were essentially unable to say what level of support they would provide us moving forward,” Totoraitis told CNN at the time.
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