Empty farms, frightened workers

The warehouse of Red River Farms, whose owner wonders whether to plant if he has no one to maintain and harvest fields, in Donna, Texas; and (below) the El Tocayo Drive Thru, where a recent ICE raid squashed the hopes of some undocumented farm workers that other jobs could be safer, in Edinburg, Texas. — Gabriel V. Cardenas/The New York Times

ALEXANDRA, a 55-year-old immigrant living in the United States illegally, was on her way to work at a watermelon farm in the border city of Edinburg, Texas, when her oldest son stopped her before she stepped out of her ageing trailer.

“Please don’t go. You are going to get deported,” he told Alexandra, who asked that her last name not be used because she did not want to attract attention from federal immigration agents.