As President Trump's intensified crackdown on illegal immigration continues, anxiety is mounting among communities potentially targeted by ICE raids. Although no confirmed raids have occurred in Shasta County or nearby areas,

Alarm spread through California agricultural centers Tuesday as panicked workers reported that federal immigration authorities were showing up at farm fields and packinghouses from the Central Coast to the San Joaquin Valley.

The nation’s most abundant harvest is ripening in California’s Central Valley fields, but the people at the heart of these agricultural communities are living in fear. Whispers of immigration raids — most unconfirmed — swirled from Colusa to Kern counties this week.