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McFarland residents protest city council’s decision to hold GEO appeal hearing during pandemic

April 20, 2020 / By Fabian Tolan
Tags: Appeal Hearing, COVID, COVID-19, GEO, GEO Inc., ICE, Immigration, mcfarland, McFarland City Council

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t stop McFarland residents and neighboring communities from getting in their cars Sunday to protest the McFarland city council’s decision to hold the crucial GEO appeal hearing during a time the community can not physically gather safely.

OUR VIEW: Time to protect our ‘essential’ farmworkers and not double up on oppressing them

April 20, 2020 / By Kern Sol News
Tags: Coronoavirus, COVID, COVID-19, farm workers, farmworker, GEO, ICE, immigrant, immigration detention centers, Kern County, mcfarland, Mesa Verde Detention

There is a small farm working community in Kern County where essential workers risk their lives everyday by going to work amid the COVID-19 pandemic to provide the nation with the food we eat.