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Baker, Nevada – 9 September 2024
1. Exterior sign of Baker Ranch
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Janille Baker, Baker Ranch Controller:
“So, one of the jobs that is nearly impossible to find a U.S. worker to do is irrigation. In our case, it’s field crop irrigation. We use hand lines, wheel lines and dams for flood irrigating.”
3. Ranch worker doing irrigation work
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Janille Baker, Baker Ranch Controller:
“That’s as you saw, a pretty labor-intensive job. And the guy we have doing it is an H-2A worker and he’s responsible for several fields and a farm.”
5. Ranch worker standing in farm
6. Drone footage of ranch worker in field
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Janille Baker, Baker Ranch Controller:
“So, in the six years we’ve had two inquiries about the job, like somebody calling but then not showing up to interview, and one person showed up to interview but didn’t fill out the application, didn’t even want to get that far in the process. Once he saw what was actually included in the job, he didn’t want to take it."
8. Ranch worker handles irrigation machinery
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Janille Baker, Baker Ranch Controller:
“So, I get very angry when I hear the immigrants are taking someone’s jobs because they’re not taking your job, you won’t do it, there’s a difference.”
10. Ranch worker moves irrigation machine
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Janille Baker, Baker Ranch Controller:
“A lot of the time, immigrants from whatever nation are willing to do some of those jobs that no one else wants to do. But that isn’t the only reason they should come. I mean, I think I think it’s important to have diversity regardless. So, I don’t understand the hate."
12. Drone footage of ranch worker on irrigation machine
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Janille Baker, Baker Ranch Controller:
“I’m very hopeful that whatever happens in November, either would be motivated to work on this issue.”
14. Ranch worker pushes irrigation machine
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Janille Baker, Baker Ranch Controller:
“There is going to become a point where it has to get taken care of. You can’t just keep using fear mongering and scaring people and then being critical of the people who do or don’t want to do whatever jobs. We’ve got to figure it out. We have a lot of people in this country that are good people, law-abiding citizens, otherwise that may not have status. I think we need some kind of program to make those people legal. They are not the ones coming here to cause problems.”
16. Janille Baker walks out into field
17. Janille Baker handles flowers
18. Drone footage pulling away from Janille Baker in field
STORYLINE:
Immigrants, as well as those who work closely with them, say both sides’ efforts to crack down on the border have clouded the larger immigration issue in ways often too nuanced to break down cleanly along ideological lines.
They say that both parties’ attempts to gain the upper hand on the issue have often overshadowed immigrants’ contributions to the nation’s economy and menaced the social fabric of communities they have built — with little regard for the people involved who are being subsumed by the politics.
Nowhere is that clearer than in Nevada, where roughly 1 in 5 workers is foreign-born, the largest percentage of any swing state.
Janille Baker, a ranch controller in Nevada, has struggled to find workers to run irrigation on her ranch.
The irrigation work on her ranch is labor intensive, but it makes her angry when she hears about people saying that immigrants are taking jobs.
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