John Rosenow, Fifth Generation Farmer in Waumandee, Wisconsin, has more than 900 hectares and over 600 dairy cows. He said that about 90% of the farm work performed immigrants.
These immigrants include Kevin, which were born in central Mexico and illegally crossed the American Southern Border when he was 18, Kevin, who did not provide his survival during the Interview with the news of CBS, among 11 million undocumented migrants Living in the US more than 10,000 of them work on Wisconsin Milk farms, according to Report by University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kevin’s duties include cows for feeding cows and cleaning stables. He told the news of the CBS to often work 12 hours a day, six days a week, sometimes starting on 3 in the morning, but the salary is better than home.
He said his mother and brothers and sisters back home depend on the beach, along with the money he gave his father, who works on the same farm.
More than half of all workers in the American dairy industry are Immigrantstoward studio by Texas A & M university. Many are assumed that they are undocumented because milk farms generally cannot access seasonal visas for employment of legal workers of migrants. Like Kevin, many remain behind the loved ones for the salaries that are below what American workers get.
“If I hired Americans to do the job, I would probably need to pay about $ 100,000 per person per person, and they would only do 40-50 hours per week,” Rosenow said. “Clearly, I couldn’t afford to pay Americans as much as they want.”
However, as the new trump card begins to follow the president’s promise to deport undocumented immigrants, Rosenow is afraid of the future.
When asked what will happen if his workers were deported, Rosenow told the news of the CBS, “I’m out of work. And it doesn’t take long.”
But Kevin is not shared to share the fear of his boss.
“Four years ago, when he was the president, he said,” I will deport everything, “but that never happened,” Kevin said in Spanish. “Sometimes we would watch the news and we would see that the family is deported, and we were scared to go out and buy foods. But since then I don’t feel fear.”
Camilo Montoya-Galvez
2025-02-20 01:35:00
