As fires continue to rage across Northern California, authorities are reassuring residents worried about being deported. As officials have implored residents to stay safe by promptly obeying mandatory evacuation orders and packing necessities ahead of time, they have confronted immigrants’ fear of exposing themselves to the immigration authorities. There are more than 50,000 immigrants living illegally in Napa and Sonoma County, according to the Public Policy Institute of California, many of them agricultural labourers helping to harvest the grapes that cling to the rolling hills of California wine country.
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