Name: 在農作物腐爛時與躲藏起來的農場工人見面 (Meet the farmworkers in hiding as crops rot)
Uploaded: 2025-08-14T03:52:06.000Z
Duration: 8 min 34 s

Really, this climate here is best served for cherries.

說真的，這裡的氣候最適合種植櫻桃。

Are any of them still salvageable or not?

情態助動詞 A2

No, there's not really anything you can do with them at this point.

不，你現在真的拿他們沒辦法。

You've got more than 30 acres of this farm with rotting fruit.

你的農場有 30 多英畝都是腐爛的水果。

I mean, these are cherries that at one point were pretty appetizing, but right now are more than two weeks past their prime.

我的意思是，這些櫻桃曾一度非常誘人，但現在已經過了兩個多星期的成熟期。

It's about a quarter of a million to $300,000 worth of revenue.

這大約是 25 萬到 30 萬美元的收入。

Which is one thing, but it's also lost revenue for the workers that would have been able to pick them had they been here.

這是一碼事，但對於那些本來可以在這裡採摘的工人來說，這也是收入損失。

Oregon farmer Ian Chandler says about half his usual crew didn't show up this season, leaving him scrambling to backfill dozens of positions.

俄勒岡州農場主伊恩-錢德勒（Ian Chandler）說，這一季，他通常僱用的員工有一半沒來，這讓他不得不重新填補數十個崗位。

You're calling them, I assume, individually and saying, what's going on?

我猜你是在逐個打電話給他們，問他們發生了什麼事？

Well, in the beginning of the season, it coincided, unfortunately, with a lot of really strong immigration enforcement down in Southern California, where our workforce comes from.

不幸的是，在賽季之初，南加州的移民執法力度非常大，而我們的員工就來自南加州。

And that kind of had a chilling effect on people wanting to move.

這對想要搬家的人產生了寒蟬效應。

While Ian says his workers are hired with what seemed to be a valid ID and work papers, fear of ice raids kept many of them from traveling north this year.

雖然伊恩說他的工人是持看似合法的身份證和工作文件被雇用的，但對移民執法局（ICE）突襲的恐懼，讓他們今年不敢往北方移動。

To understand why, we head south to Central California.

為了瞭解原因，我們向南來到加利福尼亞中部。

So we're hoping that one of those farm working families will actually talk to us here and give us a sense of what life is like in hiding.

是以，我們希望其中一個農場工人家庭能在這裡和我們談談，讓我們瞭解一下他們的隱居生活。

I think you're good, no names or anything there.

我覺得你很好，沒有名字什麼的。

Behind closed doors, making dinner with her mom, we meet Lisa.

在與媽媽共進晚餐時，我們見到了麗莎。

Like every single summer, we will go up there, my parents or myself, we will pick cherries.

每年夏天，我們都會去那裡，我的父母或我自己，都會去摘櫻桃。

But this year, we decided to stay home just to be safe.

但今年，為了安全起見，我們決定待在家裡。

Because you're living essentially as though you're going to be targeted at any moment.

因為你的生活本質上就好像你隨時都會成為攻擊目標。

Lisa's here under DACA, a program that gives temporary protection to people brought to the U.S. as children.

麗莎是根據 DACA 計劃來到美國的，該計劃為兒童時期被帶到美國的人提供臨時保護。

她的三個年幼的孩子都是美國公民。

You can tell they get kind of bored, like cooped up inside, spending hours in front of the TV and on their phones, tossing a Frisbee with himself.

你可以看出他們有點無聊，比如把自己關在屋子裡，花幾個小時在電視機前和手機上，和自己一起扔飛盤。

She's afraid of getting picked up by immigration while out, and the family getting separated.

她害怕外出時被移民局抓走，一家人失散。

She's even thinking about homeschooling this fall, just to keep them close.

她甚至在考慮今年秋天在家上學，就是為了讓他們離得近一些。

Up there in Oregon, we used to like go to the waterfalls, all those beautiful places that they have.

在俄勒岡州，我們經常去瀑布和那些美麗的地方。

It was so much fun for our kids and for ourselves too.

這對我們的孩子和我們自己來說都非常有趣。

Since they're not physically active, my middle child, she was diagnosed with high cholesterol, vitamin D deficiency.

由於他們不愛運動，我的中間那個孩子被診斷出膽固醇過高、缺乏維生素 D。

Her husband and dad, undocumented but working to keep money coming in, as they're out.

她的丈夫和父親都是無證人員，但他們在外面工作，以保證錢的進賬。

Every alert from her phone sparks a brief panic.

手機的每一次提醒都會引發她短暫的恐慌。

But it's her mom she thinks about most, still picking crops in her 60s.

但她想得最多的還是她的媽媽，60 多歲了還在採摘莊稼。

Back in 2020 when the whole pandemic happened, my parents were being considered essential workers and now they have to hide.

早在 2020 年，當整個大流行病發生時，我的父母就被視為重要工作者，而現在他們不得不躲起來。

Those essential workers, they have to stay at home for their safety.

那些必要的工人，為了安全起見，必須呆在家裡。

Have you put in your mind that, okay, if I can't leave, or at least I don't feel safe leaving my home, you're rushing to the grocery store just to get back as quickly as you can.

你有沒有想過，好吧，如果我不能離開，或者至少我覺得離開家不安全，你就急著去雜貨店，儘快趕回來。

Your kids, you don't feel comfortable leaving.

I mean, they're all in a room watching TV in the middle of the day.

我是說，他們大白天都在一個房間裡看電視。

Has there been a point in your mind where you're going to turn to your partner and your parents and say, this is not living.

在你的腦海中，是否有那麼一刻，你會對你的伴侶和父母說，這不是生活。

I told my mom that, and she feels that this is just a phase.

我告訴了媽媽，她覺得這只是一個階段。

That if we just got to hang in there, be hopeful, and it's going to pass.

只要我們堅持下去，充滿希望，一切都會過去的。

Back north in Oregon, farm manager Manuel Nava also noticed several no-shows this year.

在俄勒岡州北部，農場經理曼努埃爾-納瓦（Manuel Nava）也注意到，今年有幾家農場沒有參展。

Last year, we probably had five families coming from California to do the picking, and this year we missed them.

去年，我們大概有五個家庭從加利福尼亞來採摘，今年我們錯過了他們。

It's interesting to see how some folks operate differently within that fear.

有趣的是，有些人在這種恐懼中會採取不同的行動。

One woman, 75 years old, and determined to keep working even once the hour has stopped, asking, can I just collect two more buckets?

有一位 75 歲的老婦人，即使在時間停止後仍決心繼續工作，她問道："我還能再收兩桶嗎？

She says she doesn't find the work too difficult compared to jobs she had in Guatemala.

她說，與在瓜地馬拉時的工作相比，她並不覺得工作有多難。

Workers here earn about $5 a bucket and average anywhere from $15 to $35 an hour.

這裡的工人每桶工資約為 5 美元，平均時薪從 15 美元到 35 美元不等。

I think there's a perception that it's under the table, that you've got a big box of cash somewhere and you're paying them.

我認為，有一種看法認為，這是在桌子底下，你在某個地方拿了一大箱現金，然後付錢給他們。

We hire them just like any other employee.

我們僱用他們就像僱用其他員工一樣。

We have an I-9 and W-4 filled out for every employee.

我們為每位員工填寫了 I-9 和 W-4。

And we run payroll every week, and they get checks or direct deposit.

我們每週都會發放工資，他們會收到支票或直接存款。

All of that is taken out of their checks.

所有這些都從他們的支票中扣除。

While some may be using false IDs, others here have legal status.

雖然有些人可能使用的是假身份證，但這裡還有一些人擁有合法身份。

Katie started to post more and more signs making it clear this is private property, this one even requesting that anybody who comes onto property, visitors and vendors, must go through the office here to sign in.

凱蒂開始張貼越來越多的告示，表明這裡是私人領地，這塊告示甚至要求任何進入領地的人，無論是訪客還是商販，都必須通過這裡的辦公室簽到。

She's done this as a way to reinforce to her workforce that they're in a safe space, to try to protect them and to be a barrier of anyone who might come in and target them.

她這樣做是為了向員工們強調，他們處於一個安全的空間，試圖保護他們，並阻擋任何可能進來針對他們的人。

Manuel spends most mornings on his phone fact-checking rumors of ice raids and calming fears.

Manuel 大部分早上都在用手機查證有關移民與海關執法局（ICE）突襲的傳聞，並安撫人們的恐懼。

He says WhatsApp is just one piece of a growing underground network that many migrant workers rely on.

他說，WhatsApp 只是許多外來務工人員賴以生存的日益增長的地下網絡的一部分。

Hay un post que anda corriendo a través de las redes sociales en el área de Beaverton.

在比弗頓地區的社交網絡上，有一個帖子引起了廣泛關注。

Francisco Aguirre is one of the voices behind those warnings.

弗朗西斯科-阿吉雷是這些警告背後的聲音之一。

And you use this space here to broadcast out for the radio?