There was no sign of ICE. An attack on this event would have been incredibly bad press. Plant City is a global capital of winter strawberry production, producing nearly all of the US winter strawberry crop. These strawberries are still harvested the old way, by hand.

Migrant farmworkers do nearly all the work of actually producing the strawberries. Now they are under serious threat from ICE, as sheriffs of nearby counties whine and moan to ICE about the presence of nonwhite migrants in their counties. The Lake County sheriff has been especially noisy about this, and ALL of the FL sheriff’s departments participate in ICE’s notorious 287(g) program (POGROM maybe?)