Rosa Goldensohn reports in Crains New York that immigrant arrests in western New York have farmers concerned. Immigration authorities seized five apple pickers with no criminal records carpooling to work on an apple farm on March 21, charging them with immigration violations and detaining them "pending removal proceedings," according to a spokesperson for immigration officials. Immigration activist José Coyote Pérez, a dairy farmworker, has been held at ICE's Buffalo detention facility for the past month. "We strive to do difficult work; work nights ... corralling cows, harvesting food in the day, in rain," said Pérez, on the phone, from his jail. "It gives sustenance to our families and we are happy." Farm Credit East, a financial-services provider, estimates that 1,080 farms in the state could go out of business or shrink significantly without migrant workers. If all undocumented workers were deported, they said the state's agricultural production would drop by $1.37 billion, or 24 percent. Read the full story in Crains New York.