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Boston Globe
21-07-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Guatemalan woman who lives and works on Vermont dairy farm gets immigration reprieve — for now
As an organizer translated her remarks, a crowd of about 200 people who had gathered to support her and another undocumented man who had a required check-in Monday cheered and chanted. 'Sí se puede,' Bernardo said. 'And united we stand strong.' According to her attorney, Brett Stokes, ICE agents told her Monday that she was free for now, but that she must return again in 90 days. Advertisement For more than a decade, Bernardo and her partner have lived and worked on an Orleans County dairy farm, milking cows and raising a growing family. They have five children of their own and take care of two of Bernardo's orphaned half-sisters — all between the ages of 5 and 18. Bernardo entered the country without permission in 2014 and was immediately apprehended, according to Stokes. She has had to check in with ICE officials ever since, but those appointments have grown more frequent — and more fraught — since President Donald Trump took office vowing to deport a record number of undocumented people. Bernardo's case has drawn significant attention in Vermont over the years, with dozens of state lawmakers Advertisement 'I consider them more than just employees,' he told the Globe. 'They're part of the family.' Morin and his partner, Lynn Beede, drove Bernardo and two of her children to Monday's meeting. After she addressed the crowd of supporters, Morin said he was filled with 'relief and happiness.' 'I'm glad for her family and for everybody,' he said. 'The outcome was good today, but it's not over yet.' Bernardo was not the only Vermonter facing a nerve-wracking check-in Monday morning. Steven Tendo, a pastor and community organizer who fled his native Uganda in 2018, entered the building alongside Bernardo for a similar appointment with ICE officials. He was also released and told to return in 90 days. Tendo, 40, has said that he faced political persecution and torture in Uganda after a charitable organization he founded tangled with the Ugandan government over its civic education efforts, In 2019, a federal immigration judge denied Tendo's application for asylum, citing inconsistencies around aspects of his story. After spending more than two years in a federal immigration detention center in Texas, he relocated to Vermont, where he lives in Colchester. He now works as a licensed nursing assistant at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington. Advertisement Members of a union that represents him and other hospital workers, Support Staff United, were among the protesters who joined Monday's rally for Tendo and Bernardo. 'It's a huge relief to know that you've left your bed not thinking that you're going to go back,' Tendo said after leaving his appointment. 'And all of the sudden someone tells you, 'Oh, you're OK for the next three months. Come back in October.''
Boston Globe
17-07-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
‘They're part of the family': A Vermont dairy farmer fears being separated from a family of migrant workers
Morin hired Bernardo and her partner out of necessity. He couldn't find Americans willing to milk his cows, raise his calves, and shovel out the barn — physically demanding work with long hours and modest wages. Over time, the relationship between the self-described conservative farmer and his migrant workers has deepened. Advertisement 'I consider them more than just employees,' he said. 'They're part of the family.' Farmer John Morin and his partner, Lynn Beede, had lunch with Wuendy Bernardo's family at home in Orleans County, Vt., on July 10. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff The feeling is mutual. As Bernardo's 17-year-old daughter let out the family's chickens one muggy morning this week, she described Morin and his partner, Lynn Beede, in similar terms. 'They are like our grandparents,' she said. 'They care about us.' But this blended family could soon be pulled apart. Bernardo, who was apprehended after illegally crossing the southern border in 2014, has been required ever since to make periodic check-ins with immigration authorities. Since President Trump took office, those appointments have become more frequent, and the stakes have felt much higher. Her next one is Monday. 'Each time I go back, it's with the same fear,' the 33-year-old Bernardo said through an interpreter last week, seated at Morin's dining room table. 'When I walk into that building, it's with the thought that I might not be able to go home, and I might not be able to see my children.' Advertisement Morin — a Carhartt-clad man with gray facial stubble and kind eyes — also dreads the check-ins. 'If I lose my workers, I'm going to be done,' he said. 'What am I gonna do? Hire more migrant workers and worry about losing them ?' Bernado's children played outside the barn on the dairy farm in Orleans County, Vt., on July 10. Bernardo and her partner have lived and worked on the farm for over a decade with their family. Craig F. 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(Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) Bernardo milked a cow during an early morning shift at the farm in Orleans County, Vt., on July 11. (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) When Morin was growing up, there were dozens of farms in these parts. He and his siblings would milk his father's 50 cows before and after school, and bale hay in the summers. Most of those farms are now gone. The ones that remain are far larger and rely less on family labor. Throughout the state, an estimated 750 to 850 migrant farmworkers, mostly from Mexico and Guatemala, constitute 'There aren't a lot of people growing up into farming anymore,' Morin said. 'It's very hard to find American help that will actually milk the cows, work in the barns.' Margins in the industry have grown tighter as the price farmers get for milk hasn't kept pace with rising costs. 'I'm surviving, but I'm not gonna lie: It's hard financially,' said Morin, who bought the family farm from a brother. 'Of the 20 years I've been farming, I've probably had three good years.' Advertisement Bernardo's 18-year-old sister helped John Morin collect a calf and its mother on his dairy farm. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff Bernardo's children cast shadows on a garage at the dairy farm where they live and work. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff Of Vermont's 14 counties, Orleans was one of two Trump won in 2024. But Morin says there's a growing, if quiet, discontent among local farmers. 'I think a lot of people are not happy at all,' he said. 'We have to worry about weather. We have to worry about the price of milk fluctuating. And now we gotta worry about losing our help. We're just trying to make a living and feed the country.' Morin said he voted for Trump in 2016 'against my better judgment,' but backed the Democratic nominees in 2020 and 2024. 'I consider myself conservative, but I don't consider this administration conservative,' he said, emphasizing the importance of family values. 'You don't treat people like they're doing.' In recent months, rival factions within the Trump administration A Trump 2028 flag was posted on a hill in Orleans County, Vt., near Morin's farm. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, until recently ICE did not respond to questions from the Globe about her case, or about its current posture toward migrant farmworkers. Advertisement Bernardo and her partner have five children, from 5 to 17, and also care for two of her orphaned half-sisters, ages 15 and 18. The family members have a range of immigration and citizenship statuses. It is a hard life of long days. Most mornings, Bernardo and her partner start milking Morin's 125 cows at 4:30 a.m., and again at 3 p.m. before letting them out for the night. In between, they do other farm and household chores and spend time with their kids. Morin's farm is smaller than most and lacks a modern 'milking parlor' that would allow the cows to come to centralized machines. Instead, Bernardo and her partner walk up and down three rows of cows in the barn, disinfecting their udders and attaching mobile milkers one by one. Bernardo and her 15-year-old half-sister made dinner at their home in their kitchen upstairs. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff Bernardo fed a calf on the dairy farm on July 11. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff The younger children also help feed the calves, and the older ones take the occasional milking shift. Days off are vanishingly rare because, no matter what, the cows have to be milked. But sometimes life gets in the way. When their 10-year-old son had appendicitis this spring, Bernardo and her partner stayed by his bedside for three weeks at a hospital in Burlington, while Morin took over some of their dairy duties. 'John was the one who picked up the slack, and they also helped care for the family,' Bernardo said. In better times, Morin and Beede share meals with Bernardo's family, ply the kids with snacks, wait for them at the bus stop, and take them to town. The children love his cat and her dogs. Bernardo and her partner took a walk on the farm with two of their children after a second round of milking cows on July 11. Craig F. 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(Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) Bernardo's daughters played in their bedroom before breakfast. (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) Occasionally the younger kids call down from their upstairs apartment to ask if they can come down to play or watch a movie. Advertisement 'Kids give life purpose. They give life meaning,' Beede said. 'I think that's what Wuendy and her family do in our lives.' Without them, 'It would be a very lonely existence for us, with very little purpose.' According to Dan Kurzman, a longtime friend of Morin's: 'He adopted that family — and they've adopted him.' Upstairs, the family of nine shares close quarters: a cramped kitchen and common area, one bedroom for the parents, and two more packed with bunkbeds. Several balloons in the kids' bedrooms last week marked the recent high school graduation of Bernardo's oldest half-sister. 'It feels exciting,' the 18-year-old said. 'My first graduation.' 'As a mother, that's what I hope for all of my kids,' Bernardo said. 'I hope to see them all graduate.' Bernardo's children played outside the barn while their parents work on the dairy farm. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff The children have typical aspirations, of becoming a nurse, or a veterinarian, another an attorney, another a dentist, Bernardo said. They attend local schools, which the older kids say they prefer to long, slow summers on the farm, when they must concoct their own entertainment. 'We go to the river and spend time there when days are hot,' the 13-year-old said. 'And I think that's all.' (To protect their privacy, Bernardo asked that her children not be named.) Over a breakfast of homemade tortillas filled with pork sausage, spinach, and Vermont cheddar cheese, Bernardo's partner said he wished more Americans understood that all he and his family are looking for is a better life. 'We do the dirty work they don't want to do. We are not criminals. We are supporting our kids. We are part of the economy of the United States,' he said. 'That's all we do: work and feed our family.' Advertisement He said he felt nervous about Bernardo's looming check-in. 'I always try to stay positive and think everything will be all right,' he said. 'But with this administration, you never know.' Bernardo sat with her cup of coffee after having breakfast with her family. Her day started at 4:30 a.m. with the first of two shifts milking cows. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff At Bernardo's last appointment with ICE, on June 20, crowds of supporters gathered outside the agency's office in St. Albans to protest her potential deportation. After a half hour she reappeared. She'd been told to return in a month. Morin, who had driven Bernardo and three of her children to the appointment, waited for her outside, fuming. 'This is not American,' he said. 'I wear the American flag. I support the Constitution. I support our troops that have fought for this country, that make this country free. What's going on in this country — it's not humane.'
Glasgow Times
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
Sold-out shows and big energy at Glasgow Jazz 2025
The event, running from June 19 to 22, showcased a dynamic mix of legendary performers, rising stars, album launches, and community events across Glasgow. With more than 200 musicians taking part in over 35 performances, the festival saw an increase in audience size compared to 2023, with several shows selling out. Brian Jackson (Image: knkography) The festival offered a wide range of events, including free jam sessions, one-off collaborations, a children's music workshop, and a book reading. The festival has supported the music industry's gender equality initiative, Keychange, since 2017, and this year, 75 per cent of performances included female artists. Read more: 'We blew it' - Bernardo admits to shock Portugal Euro U21s defeat Glasgow man violently raped 'much younger' woman, causing injury Paesano news, interviews and updates on the pizzeria chain Jill Rodger, director of the Glasgow Jazz Festival, said: "The 39th Glasgow Jazz Festival has been one to remember – from packed venues to incredible performances, the energy brought by both artists and audiences has been wonderful. "Our commitment to inclusivity, giving young and emerging talent a platform, and celebrating all genres of jazz, are at the heart of what we do. (Image: Campbell Skinner) "I want to personally thank everyone who played a part in making this festival such a success. "We're already looking forward to what's in store for our very special 40th edition. "See you next year, Glasgow." The Glasgow Jazz Festival 2025 was supported by Creative Scotland and the Glasgow 850 Festivals Fund. The festival is set to return for its 40th edition in June 2026. For more information, visit
The Herald Scotland
23-06-2025
- Sport
- The Herald Scotland
Shellshocked Celtic star speaks out on shock defeat in under-21 Euros
But Portugal - who play against Scotland later this year in the Euro 2027 qualifiers - were stunned when they were eliminated in the quarter finals by the Netherlands. And Bernardo, 23, wasn't impressed as they crashed out. Read more: He said: "We had everything we needed on our side to reach the semi-finals. "The team gave everything, we all gave a great commitment to the cause. "But unfortunately, our football was not the best and that's why we lost.'
The National
23-06-2025
- Sport
- The National
Shellshocked Celtic star speaks out on shock defeat in under-21 Euros
The Hoops midfielder became the most capped player of all time for his country's Under 21s side at the European Championships in Slovakia. But Portugal - who play against Scotland later this year in the Euro 2027 qualifiers - were stunned when they were eliminated in the quarter finals by the Netherlands. And Bernardo, 23, wasn't impressed as they crashed out. Read more: He said: "We had everything we needed on our side to reach the semi-finals. "The team gave everything, we all gave a great commitment to the cause. "But unfortunately, our football was not the best and that's why we lost.'
