{"id":1337,"date":"2009-11-20T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/20\/feds-raid-farms-in-vermont-looking-for-undocumented-workers\/"},"modified":"2009-11-20T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T15:41:00","slug":"feds-raid-farms-in-vermont-looking-for-undocumented-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/20\/feds-raid-farms-in-vermont-looking-for-undocumented-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds raid farms in Vermont looking for undocumented workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Burlington Free Press is reporting that immigration officials served warrants at at least four farms this week.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda St. Pierre, head of a group called Dairy Farmers Working Together had this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe timing of this is really hurtful,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s come out of the blue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>St. Pierre said the agents\u2019 unannounced visits to the farms and the use of subpoenas to seek employee records was particularly unsettling to the farmers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article quotes John Morton, assistant secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement defending the raids:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> \u201cICE is focused on finding and penalizing employers who believe they can unfairly get ahead by cultivating illegal workplaces,\u201d Morton said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20091120\/NEWS02\/91120003\/Feds-hit-farms-looking-for-illegal-immigrants\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ice.gov\/pi\/nr\/0911\/091119washingtondc2.htm\">Here&#8217;s the complete ICE press release.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Burlington Free Press is reporting that immigration officials served warrants at at least four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}