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This article is by Alicia Inez Guzm\u00e1n<\/a> with photos by Michael Benanav. Reposted with permission from Searchlight New Mexico<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Anthony, N.M., a border community and its farmworkers find solidarity in the pandemic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Josh Jasso, farm manager at La Semilla, holds an okra start while talking to the staff about the day\u2019s planting plans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

ANTHONY, N.M.<\/strong> \u2014 Josh Jasso stood among mounds of greenery in an otherwise parched expanse, squinting at the fields of La Semilla Community Farm. \u201cWe\u2019re feeling smaller and smaller in our fractured landscape,\u201d said Jasso, the farm manager at La Semilla, which is located on a stretch of highway in Anthony, a speck in the Chihuahuan Desert along the Texas state line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its 14 acres are hemmed in by a railyard owned by an El Paso-based gravel company, a young pecan farm and fields of alfalfa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roughly 24 miles to the south, a rumble of semitrucks crosses the U.S.-Mexico border, carrying tons of freight from one side to the other. And to the west lies the ailing Rio Grande, a river desiccated by years of drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At La Semilla,<\/a> a small farm dedicated to sustainability and food justice, there is always something to be wary of: pollutants from the train line, pesticide use on neighboring farms, the rise of invasive species \u2014 or the toll of the pandemic on local farmworkers. Adding to the nonprofit\u2019s worries, irrigation officials recently allotted a historically low amount<\/a> of water to the farm from Elephant Butte Reservoir. With so little rain and snowfall over the past year, Jasso had worried they wouldn\u2019t get any water at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Haylee Chavira, Frankie Ramos Jr. and Allen Castellanos (front to back) plant a field at La Semilla Community Farm, in Anthony, N.M.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Farming is a precarious business in the desert. But in a small border community like Anthony, much else is precarious, too. Residents here are not only witnessing the effects of climate change \u2014 and a future of hotter and drier weather \u2014 but also struggling with grinding poverty, a dearth of public health services and the dire impacts of COVID-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a city of 9,239 residents, at least 2,568 have tested positive for the disease to date \u2014 more than 1 out of 4 people, according to Do\u00f1a Ana County<\/a>. Advocates, however, believe the actual number is even higher than state officials have acknowledged. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point, the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Do\u00f1a Ana county were in ZIP codes that bordered Texas, a state where public-health restrictions were lax and infections soared<\/a> last spring and summer. In Anthony, where 98 percent of residents<\/a> are Hispanic or Latino \u2014 and nearly half live under the poverty line \u2014 the pandemic\u2019s casualties were particularly severe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was tormented by that,\u201d said former mayor Ramon S. Gonzalez, a native of Anthony. \u201cI kept wondering, How can this happen?<\/em>\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For migrant workers who provide essential labor at the region\u2019s major agricultural operations, the pandemic has taken a singularly harsh toll. Here and across the country, unsafe conditions at large-scale farms and dairies<\/a> left workers at risk of contracting the coronavirus. Due to their uncertain immigration status, many were reluctant to seek medical help when they got ill. Others quietly died at home, whether that was in Anthony or with family across the U.S.-Mexico border. In those instances, their deaths were seldom disclosed beyond their circle of family and friends, said Carlos Marentes, executive director of the El Paso-based Centro De Los Trabajadores Agricolas Fronterizos<\/a> (Border Farmworkers Center).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Networks of mutual aid emerged where social systems in Do\u00f1a Ana County fell short. Food pantries, vaccination drives, rental assistance and emergency funds all became part of the community\u2019s response. Yet for all the efforts to triage the needs of the most vulnerable, the pandemic has both illuminated and exacerbated what it means to live on the margins in this and other small towns along New Mexico\u2019s southern border. And it has pried open a dialogue about what sustainability \u2014 for the land, the town and its people \u2014 will look like moving forward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

History on the line<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Just north of the city proper, swaths of farmland follow the course of the Rio Grande, the lifeblood of the Mesilla Valley. Dusty plots eventually give way to a recently built walking path, rows of middle-class housing and strip malls where insurance agencies, one-stop payday loans and clinics have set up shop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s residents are a combination of recent immigrants, migrant and seasonal workers, and families whose grandparents and great-grandparents crossed the border in earlier waves of immigration. Many people continue to lead transnational lives, traveling to Ju\u00e1rez, Palomas and elsewhere in Mexico to visit relatives, seek medical care or go shopping. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a recent walk, longtime Anthony resident Sarah G. Holguin, a Spanish-language interpreter and chair of the city\u2019s planning and zoning commission, stood on a bleached-out downtown sidewalk. One foot was in New Mexico and the other in Texas, thanks to yet another border that defines Anthony, N.M.: It is a stone\u2019s throw from \u201cthe other Anthony,\u201d a town with the same name, except that it\u2019s in the Lone Star state. The boundary would be imperceptible if not for a small street sign that reads, \u201cNew Mexico State Line.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carlos Marentes in front of the border fence in the community of Anapra, N.M., south of Anthony. (Photo courtesy of Border Agricultural Workers Project)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Anthony\u2019s quirks and needs were \u201cforgotten\u201d during the pandemic, Holguin felt. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, she said, \u201chas no idea we\u2019re here.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The governor, to Holguin\u2019s irritation, issued multiple shelter-in-place orders that instructed New Mexicans to stay in the state \u2014 in other words, to avoid going to places like Texas. \u201cOur city has no grocery stores, so we have<\/em> to go to Texas,\u201d Holguin said. La Feria, a supermarket in Texas, was but a block away from where she stood. To shop for groceries in New Mexico would mean driving to Las Cruces \u2014 34 miles away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind her stood a row of adobe buildings from another era, most of them for sale or lease. One had a tree growing inside. Another, in decades past, was home to the Line Bar, a local joint where the bartender served drinks from Anthony, Texas, and customers downed them in Anthony, N.M. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holguin lives with her 7-year-old son in a trailer she fixed up on one acre of land. During the pandemic, she bought chickens and built a coop and is now getting ready to start planting squash, her own small way of becoming less dependent on the local supermarket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving deftly between English and Spanish, Holguin recalled arriving in Anthony with her father, an auto mechanic, from Mexico City when she was a child. Her grandmother already lived here, having arrived decades before to \u201cpick cebollas<\/em> and chiles\u201d from El Paso to Las Cruces as a participant in the Bracero Program<\/a>. Launched in 1942, the program offered temporary visas to Mexican farmworkers, purportedly in exchange for fair working conditions. In truth, braceros most often subsisted within a shadow economy, laboring under harrowing circumstances and for very little money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pedestrians stand at the borderline between Anthony, N.M. and Anthony, Texas \u2014 two towns with the same name, in separate states.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Though the agricultural legacy has remained strong in the Mesilla Valley, Anthony itself hasn\u2019t thrived for decades. Even before COVID-19, the city\u2019s per capita income was $11,058, one of the lowest in the state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When her work as an interpreter dried up as a result of the pandemic, Holguin was grateful she owned her own home. \u201cIf I didn\u2019t, I\u2019d be homeless,\u201d she said wryly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ever since the tomato and onion canneries left Anthony, Texas, in the early 2000s, residents have had to commute even farther for the good jobs, said Gonzalez, who after his tenure as mayor served as a Do\u00f1a Ana County commissioner, until losing the seat in the 2020 elections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have that many businesses or jobs, really.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bereavement and barriers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After 44 years of teaching in local schools, and having himself attended them, Gonzales knew many in town who fell ill or died of COVID-19. Yet the vaccine for months was largely only available in Las Cruces or El Paso. For some residents, especially those who don\u2019t have cars, the vaccination sites were virtually inaccessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe last thing I did as county commissioner was partner with the Do\u00f1a Ana County department of health and human services to bring the vaccine to La Cl\u00ednica de Familia<\/a>,\u201d Gonzalez said, referring to one of the town\u2019s only health centers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farmworkers, however, still had little access to testing or shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the pandemic, \u201cfarmworkers were already marginalized,\u201d said Marentes, who advocates for workers across the Rio Grande region. \u201cThe pandemic only made conditions worse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no way to access a drive-through testing center without a vehicle, which many farmworkers don\u2019t have. And many laborers are unwilling \u2014 or unable \u2014 to take the day off from work to get tested. Some farm owners around the country have threatened to fire workers who get a positive test, another major disincentive, news stories<\/a> and advocacy groups<\/a> report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The barriers to getting vaccinated have proven almost insurmountable, including the complicated online registration process, the fear of losing work, fears over documentation status and lack of faith in the American health-care system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To address the problems, a coalition of farmworker advocates began to organize their own vaccination drives, including one at Tierra del Sol Housing Corporation, a nonprofit affordable housing complex in Anthony where many farmworkers live. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Marentes continues to hear stories of workers dying at home, unaccounted for by government officials. \u201cA farmworker recently died in La Mesa,\u201d a community 11 miles north of Anthony, he said in May. \u201cWe only knew because her family told us.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNobody,\u201d he added, \u201ccan tell you the number of farmworkers who have died in southern New Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now, he is partnering with other local nonprofits to raise money for a cash-assistance fund to help farmworkers, a majority of whom were excluded from public and federal assistance programs; undocumented workers can\u2019t collect unemployment and didn\u2019t receive CARES Act stimulus<\/a> checks. The assistance fund will help people pay for rent and utilities, or even take a day or two off work to get the vaccine, said Marentes, who\u2019s been making food deliveries to people\u2019s homes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese,\u201d he said, \u201care the times of solidarity. And the most urgent gesture of solidarity is to support the men, women and children working in the fields.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Potential planted<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On the northern edge of Anthony, a freshly painted mural presides over La Semilla Community Farm\u2019s sunbaked landscape. Across the facade of an old storage container, two adobe-colored hands roll corn masa for tortillas, each flanked by stalks of vibrant, lapis-colored blue corn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah G. Holguin has recently begun raising her own chickens at her home in Anthony. \u201cI\u2019m learning as I go,\u201d she said.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

La Semilla Food Center was founded in 2010 in response to the need for sustainable farming, with a mission of building an equitable food system and providing access to fresh produce in the entire Paso del Norte region. The small community farm was a natural outgrowth of that project \u2014 a demonstration farm where students and the public could learn how to grow food in southern New Mexico\u2019s water-stressed landscape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At La Semilla, Jasso said, \u201cwe want to be in the best situation to continue with agriculture and to include foods the desert can sustain.\u201d The farm currently grows produce such as kale, broccoli and winter squash, and is looking forward to planting nopales<\/em> and mesquite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Water, of course, is critical for any crop. And southern New Mexico is in particularly short supply. This year, water won\u2019t be released from Elephant Butte<\/a> Reservoir into the Mesilla Valley\u2019s stretch of the Rio Grande until June, several months later than usual. When it does arrive, surface water will remain \u201creally tight this season,\u201d said Stephanie Walker, a vegetable specialist at New Mexico State University and professional development coordinator of the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education<\/a> (SARE) program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

La Semilla, for its part, is not only adjusting to the impacts of a multi-year drought \u2014 which relented a bit in 2018 only to resume with even greater ferocity \u2014 but is also attempting to build a groundswell of small farmers who can rebuild the soil depleted by the region\u2019s big commodity crops, like pecans and cotton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fields at La Semilla\u2019s farm, bordered to the east by railroad lines.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The global food production and distribution system was \u201cgarbage and exploitative to begin with,\u201d as Jasso put it. The coronavirus only revealed the depths of the crisis: Here, in one of New Mexico\u2019s most agriculturally productive regions, and in a county that is third in the state for the number of farms<\/a> and ranches, food insecurity is among the gravest concerns. In Do\u00f1a Ana County, at least one in six people have experienced food insecurity<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not a food desert, said Michelle Carreon, who gathers community stories about food justice at La Semilla: \u201cIt\u2019s food apartheid.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the coronavirus arrived, La Semilla responded by ramping up its Farm Fresh Mobile Market into a full-fledged, affordable grocery-delivery service operating from the back of two transport vans. Before the pandemic, it had distributed produce to Las Cruces and Gadsden schools and sold it at farmers markets. Now, staffers bore boxes of blue corn, honey and local produce to the doorsteps of residents in Anthony, Las Cruces and El Paso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since March 2020, La Semilla has distributed 1,162 food boxes from its farm and 23 others in the region, most of them smaller than an acre. Anything leftover gets donated to the food pantry at the Women\u2019s Intercultural Center<\/a>, a nonprofit community hub near downtown Anthony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flood irrigation in a pecan grove in Anthony. Pecans, New Mexico\u2019s top cash crop, require large quantities of water, a challenge in a drought-plagued state.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Rio Grande, completely devoid of water, in Anthony, N.M.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn Latin America,\u201d said Mary Carter, the center\u2019s executive director, \u201cpeople give to the church. Here, they give to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carter oversees the food pantry every Thursday morning. Everyone is welcome to pick up a box, including residents from both Anthonys and the surrounding small towns. The pandemic forced the center\u2019s many other programs to go dormant, save for appointment-only help for immigrants who need legal advice or support with paperwork to maintain their legal-residency status. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carter hopes to revive programs in the fall, returning the center to its status as a one-stop shop and community incubator. It was here, she recalled, where the first inklings of La Semilla Food Center were first nurtured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Locals pick up boxes of food and Mother\u2019s Day gifts from the Women\u2019s Intercultural Center in Anthony, N.M.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When the pandemic does cease its stronghold on Anthony, the farm will once again be a place for community members and local students to gather and learn how best to yield bounty from the desert. The mural, which today regards a largely empty landscape, will then preside over bustling fields. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Painted by El Paso-born artist Christin Apodoca<\/a>, the mural was inspired by a virtual event held by La Semilla last year, in which many participants shared memories of watching their mothers and grandmothers make corn tortillas. Corn, to many, was a symbol of what the long view could hold \u2014 of food traditions once lost and now reviving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pandemic, Jasso said, \u201cslowed everything down,\u201d and in the process laid bare the breaches in the food system. The land, he believes, holds a blueprint for a future of sustenance. It just needs tending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Searchlight New Mexico is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that seeks to empower New Mexicans to demand honest and effective public policy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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