SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — At a San Diego strip mall, nestled between a Chinese food restaurant and an auto parts store, sits a small distribution site where shelves and refrigerators are stacked with watermelons, bags of potatoes, apples, and other fruits and vegetables.

It's a store where low-income families, single moms and pregnant women can purchase milk, eggs and produce for a relatively low price.

Robert, who runs the store, says their selections aren't as abundant nor as fresh as they were at the start of the year.

"The produce that is coming in is overripe, they’re taking too long to pick it, it's not being picked on time," he said.

Robert blames Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids for a lack of farmworkers to harvest crops in California and in other parts of the countr

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