Dairy farms in Minnesota and around the country rely on immigrant workers, many of whom are undocumented. Dairy workers’ families often count on the portion of their wages they send back to their home countries. A group of farmers in Minnesota and Wisconsin have been following these connections to Mexico to meet the families of their employees.

Mercedes Falk is the president of the Wisconsin-based organization Puentes/Bridges, which leads the trips. Cole Hoscheit is a board member and dairy farmer from Caledonia, Minnesota.

Falk and Hoscheit joined MPR News host Nina Moini to talk about the organization’s goals for cultural understanding, how it’s changing farmers’ approach to running their businesses and how farm communities are discussing the spotlight on deportations.