ALBANY - In upstate New York, the recent immigrant-rights rallies were hardly measured in the hundreds of thousands. Try hundreds instead.

The exception was the Hudson Valley city of Newburgh, where a population split in rough thirds - black, white, Latino - sent about 2,000 marching through the center of town.

On Monday, as the country embraces “A Day Without Immigrants” with rallies, work stoppages and business closings, organizers across the state say they'll be more vocal this time.

In Poughkeepsie, dozens of Latino-owned businesses won't open on Monday. Workers and supporters will march in Buffalo, Rochester and Ithaca. And in Newburgh, where Latino-owned businesses will close, another march wants to draw twice as many people as before.

One in three New Yorkers is either an immigrant or the child of one, according to state immigration officials.

Even on isolated rural farms, migrant workers are staying current through Spanish-language TV news and calling to ask what they can do, says Ami Kadar, interim director of the Centro Independiente de Trabajadores Agricolas in western New York.

Some won't work on Monday out of solidarity, she says. One crew leader called this week to say he's taking 30 workers to the Rochester rally.

The New York Farm Bureau says it's fine with that.

“We'll get by,” says Peter Gregg, the bureau's director of public relations. “They're preaching to the choir. The loss of a migrant work force would be devastating. We already know that.”

It's the migrant work force that helps keep New York second in the country in apple production and third in dairy and grapes, agricultural leaders say. The Farm Bureau estimates the state has about 20,000 year-round migrant workers and another 12,000 seasonal ones.

Not all workers will be free to participate Monday.

“Some employers are saying if you don't come to work, you'll be fired,” says Geovanny Trivino, a coordinator with the Kingston-based Workers Rights Law Center, which also represents service workers and day laborers.

“I've seen so many things like this go on,” says Leopoldo Moreno, who founded the Viva la Revolucion workers' rights group in Newburgh earlier this year.

As he answers questions by cell phone outside his home, he's also interviewing a Mexican worker he recently helped get a local dishwashing job. The worker, who is here illegally, is clutching a handwritten note, “his paycheck,” Moreno says, that simply notes his hours and pay: 54 hours for $245.

“I don't think that's fair,” says Moreno, who came to America 18 years ago illegally himself and obtained his legal status through marriage.

Some workers' advocates say last week's nationwide arrests of more than 1,100 workers at pallet maker IFCO Systems in places including the Albany suburb of Guilderland were timed to make workers hesitate before they marched or rallied again.

“I can't help but see it as a scare tactic,” says Chandra Russo, a spokeswoman for Comite Latino, which is organizing the rally in Poughkeepsie.

But along the city's Main Street, businesses like La Amistad bakery, Pancho Villa grocery, Los Compadres restaurant, Pacos barbershop, and more will lock their doors anyway and send employees to march on the streets.

Francisco del Moral, president of the Benito Juarez Hispanic Association, says his family's Casa Latina grocery, the biggest grocery downtown, will close from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Del Moral came to America from Mexico 16 years ago, and he's now here legally.

“We probably will lose a lot of business, but I hope we will win a lot too,” he says.