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Trump's deportation threats send shivers through farmworkers

Farmworker Lourdes Cardenas stands for a portrait in her home in Fresno, California, on February 12, 2025. Thousands of migrants labor to feed a country that now seems ready to deport them. [AFP]

With planting season well under way in California, the leading US food-producing state, fear is taking root among thousands of migrants who labor to feed a country that now seems ready to deport them.

"We have to stay hidden," Lourdes Cardenas, a 62-year-old Mexican living in the city of Fresno, told AFP.

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