Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Farmworkers need families, not deportation and exploitation April 12, 2021 9:58 AM CDT By David Bacon Farmworkers pick persimmons in a field near Poplar, in the San Joaquin Valley, in a crew of Mexican immigrants. Many workers wear facemasks or bandannas as a protection against spreading the coronavirus. Maria Madrigal is a picker in the crew. | David Bacon/PW During the Trump administration, the U.S. deported an average of 275,725 people per year, almost the same number of workers — 257,667 — brought by growers last year to labor in U.S. fields. Contract laborers on H2-A visas now make up is a tenth of the U.S.’s total agricultural workforce — an increase of more than 100,000 in just six years.