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US immigration policy

Defying fear in California’s fields, ground zero of Trump’s immigration paradox

Nicholas Dale Leal|California's Central Valley|

In the agricultural heart of the country’s most productive state, more than half of farmworkers are estimated to be undocumented, yet farmers decisively voted last year for the Republican candidate who promised to deport them. The tension between political promises and economic needs has created a contradiction with no immediate solution