Eight Farmworkers Detained in Major Immigration Raid at Vermont Dairy Farm

Federal authorities detained eight workers at a Vermont dairy farm on Monday. A migrant advocacy group calls it one of the largest-ever single immigration enforcement actions against farmworkers in Vermont. Migrant Justice says armed border protection agents entered a Franklin County dairy farm Monday afternoon and arrested the eight farmworkers. They are being held at the Northwest State Correctional Facility. The raid happened at the Pleasant Valley Farm in Berkshire. In a statement, the family said they don’t know why their employees were detained but they are cooperating with Customs and Border Patrol. Customs and Border Patrol says that on Monday, they responded to a report of two people carrying backpacks leaving the woods and crossing through private farmland close to the border. They say one person was taken into custody and the other got away. But during a search of the area, they say they found and apprehended “additional individuals” who they say were in the U.S. illegally.