Migrant farmworkers head to pick crops in Fresno, Calif., on July 18.
It’s tomato season and Lidia is harvesting on farms in California’s Central Valley.
She is also anxious. Attention from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could upend her life more than 23 years after she illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border as a teenager.
“The worry is they’ll pull you over when you’re driving and ask for your papers,” said Lidia, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition that only her first name be used because of her fears of deportation. “We need to work. We need to feed our families and pay our rent.”
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