YAKIMA — Just after 5:30 a.m. on an October morning, a light is on inside Cristina González Torres’ house. In the living room, adorned with a large picture of Jesus, a phone sits in front of a flatscreen TV. No calls or texts are coming through, which is strange. By this time, her phone usually starts blowing up. It does that when immigration agents are on the move.

And they usually are by now, stopping people on their way to work in the orchards and fruit-packing warehouses spread across the Yakima Valley. With the sun not yet up, though, it’s cold and windy out, conditions that can knock workers off ladders and bruise apples. So maybe, González Torres surmises, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are waiting.

Around 6 a.m., she decides to head out. ICE will be out there sooner or later, and she knows where to look, based on arrest patterns since the Trump administration began its immigration crackdown — deeply felt in this county that is more than half Hispanic .…