Pajaro Floods: Climate Migration and Catastrophic Levee Breaks.
The recent floods in California have devastated the Pajaro valley, where most of the US's summer strawberries are grown, leaving many immigrant farm workers without work or homes. Without urgent government intervention and investment, these workers could become climate migrants, as many lack legal status and are therefore ineligible for federal disaster relief funds or unemployment insurance. The intensifying climate crisis has thrust thousands of agricultural workers across the state into similar circumstances, unemployed or toiling in dangerous conditions, amid atmospheric river storms, extreme heatwaves and wildfires.