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https://www.staging.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Rainier-cherries-KUOW-768x578.jpg600452Cherry growers say the threat of deportations under President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is keeping the migrant workforce they rely on this time of year from showing up to work. They describe an increasingly urgent labor crisis that could leave cherries rotting in the field, and farmers holding the bill.