Farmworkers in central California have worked through extreme heat, wildfires and extreme rain periods, but gaps in health care access have placed them in an even more precarious position.
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Farmworking families allege intimidation and questions over immigration status, forcing some families to leave at least two centers in Farmersville and Woodville.
Dozens of farmworker families living at farm labor housing centers in Tulare County were reportedly threatened with calls to immigration officials, and the sheriff’s department, as evictions were carried out against them.
Carmen Hernandez lives in a small home on Chateau Fresno Avenue, one of the three streets that make up Lanare, a tiny unincorporated settlement in the San Joaquin Valley. The street’s name sounds more appropriate to an upscale housing development.