On César Chávez Day farmworkers march against ICE raids at historic Delano grape strike site

Around half of California's farmworkers lack legal immigration status, though United Farm Workers says the number is much higher.

DELANO, Calif. — Carolina Sanchez joined the United Farm Workers union in 2016 after the blueberry farm where she worked changed the daily rate for each pound she picked. 

“They said if you don’t like what you’re paid, you can go home,” Sanchez said. 

She organized the 500 workers at the Delano farm to strike with the UFW’s support. Eventually, they won a union contract, and Sanchez was elected as the union representative at her workplace. 

This month, Sanchez began mobilizing her fellow workers to attend a march she was leading Monday, César Chávez Day. 

Former UFW President Arturo Rodriguez addresses members at the rally Monday in Memorial Park in Delano, Calif.Iris Kim / NBC NewsSixty years after the historic Delano grape strike, which launched Chávez’s 280-mile march to Sacramento with Filipino American and Mexican American farmworkers, over 5,000 United Farm Worker members and other union members gathered Monday in Delano for a march to the Forty Acres site where Chávez held his first public fast.

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