, an independent farmworkers’ union in Burlington, WA, says that there has been a noticeable uptick in hostilities toward farmworkers since Trump’s election in 2016. “In Lynden [Washington], there are a lot of his supporters who live there. [Since that election], it’s become more common for people, even caravans, to drive by and start yelling at us. They’ll yell, ‘We don’t want you here. Go back to your pueblo.’ It’s happened a lot more since we’ve had this president.
Farmworkers face numerous hurdles when it comes to advocating for support, with language barrier being one of the highest. Though they’re classified as Hispanic or Latino, 30 percent of these workers are actually. Few are able to speak fluent Spanish, much less English, making them even more vulnerable to the health hazards of the pandemic as well as exploitation when it comes to wages and working conditions.
But Indigenous farmworkers, in particular, face their own challenges. Lopez says, “The COVID-19 positive rate for Latino farmworkers is at 70 percent, and we are lumped in that, so we don’t know how many Indigenous have become infected.” (Lopez isn't far off in his estimate: Counties across the state report the percentage of Latinos affected by COVID-19 range up to
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You’re trying to get native Americans to pick your lettuce? How about cleaning your toilets? AmericanIndianLivesMatter
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Why do you keep calling them indigenous when they are not indigenous to the United States? Modern Mexican Latinos aren’t considered indigenous to Mexico anyways. It seems like you decided that was a politically correct term for migrant workers?
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