Posted December 2, 2025
Teresa was anxious as she waited for Valley Voices, the non-profit behind a monthly food distribution network that reaches hundreds of farmworker families in the Central Valley, providing groceries and other staples to those who don’t have enough to eat.
For area farmworkers the decline in available work adds to the growing sense of unease, as prices for daily staples continue to climb and as the Trump Administration doubles down on its immigration enforcement policies.
“A lot of people have been affected,” noted Valley Voices Executive Director Ruth López. “There are already some that have left the country because they don’t want to see their family divided,” she said, referring to those who “self-deport” for fear of being detained by federal agents…