Vermont's Silenced Voices Project: Deported from VT Grocery Store by Under Cover Agent

In this interview a worker explains that a routine trip to the grocery store lands him in a detention center. Once detained workers are transported between Vermont, New York and Massachussets. Workers are often detained for 2-3 months before they are deported. This is a story repeated over and over in Vermont by migrant farmworkers and creates an environment of fear that further isolates and marginalizes migrant farmworkers. Due to this climate of fear many workers, particularly those closest to the border, can pass months and even a year without ever stepping foot off a dairy farm.