Op-ed: Through Acts of Solidarity, We Can Support Immigrants in the Food Chain and Beyond

By Alba Velasquez

Published July 22, 2025, Civil Eats

Photo credit: LA Food Policy Council

Immigrants play a vital role across the entire food system – from agriculture, food processing plants, distribution, and the service industries. They make up the labor force that produces, sells, delivers, and prepares our food. Our food system should nourish people, with dignity, care, and justice. That means everyone. Immigrant families, food workers, and small vendors are not threats; they are essential to our communities.

Stripping vital safety nets away and conducting sweeping immigration raids tear families apart, drive workers into hiding, and dismantle the systems that keep people fed. But strengthening support networks and making deliberate economic choices can bring us together in acts of solidarity with the care, collaboration, and compassion needed to create a food system and a community that helps everyone thrive.

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