USA: Second Trump presidency risks eroding migrants' rights as cos. use immigration raids to retaliate against migrants complaining of abuse; incl. cos comments
“A second Trump presidency has raised concerns of migrant workers’ rights”
…Rosa Sanchez went to work picking carrots at Grimmway Farms…
Fellow farm worker Alejandra Montoya saw the accident happen. Montoya said she was told to keep picking carrots as her colleague Sanchez’s lifeless body lay there…
…her supervisors would often subtly threaten to turn them into immigration officials if they tried to push for better working conditions….
…Montoya has worked for Grimmway through various labour contractors, a common practice in the agricultural sector. She was working for Esparza Enterprises at the time of the accident…
Grimmway told Al Jazeera in a statement that “the allegation that Grimmway supervisors and its subcontractors threatened employees based on immigration status is false…
Esparza Enterprises did not respond to Al Jazeera’s request for comment…
…managers at Koch Foods – one of the plants at the centre of the 2019 Mississippi raid – allegedly threatened several female employees at the plant with firing and deportation…
…at the time, Koch said it did not knowingly hire undocumented workers…
McNeill Labor Management…was fined by…OSHA…McNeill Labor Management did not respond to a request for comment…