How WA Farms Should Prepare For Immigration Enforcement Activity: Experts
From Save Family Farming by Save Family Farming
June 1, 2026 · 22 min
About this episode
Experts discuss how Washington farms can prepare for potential immigration enforcement activities.
It’s not just the farmworker community that’s worried about the ongoing federal immigration crackdown. Farmers face the possibility of immigration enforcement activity and the fear of raids and arrests interfering with critical harvest seasons. Eamonn Roach, a Pasco, WA-based immigration attorney, and Enrique Gastelum, CEO of the WA-based Worker And Farmer Labor Association (WAFLA) joined Save Family Farming Executive Director Ben Tindall on a recent online live stream sharing important background on why immigration enforcement poses a threat to farms, and how they can prepare. Dillon shares a portion of that conversation on The Farming Show, and the full recording of the live stream is available here .
People in this episode
Host: Ben Tindall
Guests: Eamonn Roach, Enrique Gastelum
Topics covered
- immigration enforcement
- farming
- harvest seasons
- legal advice
- farmworker community
Keywords
- immigration
- farming
- enforcement
- harvest
- legal advice
- farmworker
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Worker And Farmer Labor Association
Places: WA, Pasco, WA
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