United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Immigration News
- 06/04/2022 Index-Journal: Alex Padilla spends full day laboring with farmworkers, 1st US senator in history to do so
- 06/03/2022 Los Angeles Daily News: Photos: Sen. Padilla takes to the fields in Moorpark to pick parsley, promote immigration reform
- 06/03/2022 Daily Kos: Alex Padilla joins California farmworkers for a day, one of just two senators to accept invitation
- 06/03/2022 Fox News: Immigration reform could prevent food prices from harming consumers
- 06/03/2022 Alex Padilla first U.S. senator to work in fields alongside farm workers as part of the ‘Take Our Jobs’ campaign
- 05/30/2022 Bangor Daily News: Maine missed opportunity to improve life for migrant farm workers
- 05/27/2022 NPR capRadio: A human-trafficking case exposed farmworker abuses. The government is promising change
- 05/25/2022 Santa Maria Times: US Department of Labor fines Santa Maria farms for withholding wages, benefits
- 05/23/2022 Carlbad Current Argus: Plenty of food, but not for all farmworkers
- 05/21/2022 Cal Coast News: Nipomo and Santa Maria businesses fined for underpaying farm workers
- 05/16/2022 U.S. Department of Labor: US Department of Labor recovers $225K in back wages for agricultural workers in California, assesses five farms $54K in penalties
- 05/09/2022 Roll Call: Inflation and worker shortage fuel push on immigration bills
- 05/06/2022 Just the News: Biden uses Cinco de Mayo to push for pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants
- 05/05/2022 UPI: Biden urges Congress to pass immigration reform during Cinco de Mayo ceremony
- 05/03/2022 The Augusta Chronicle: Farm labor advocates, leaders concerned after reported human trafficking, ties to Georgia officials
- 05/03/2022 KSBW: Leaders demand equal opportunities for farmworkers at the International Workers Day appreciation event
- 05/01/2022 abc 10: Families of migrant farm works call for justice and reform in Stockton march
- 04/28/2022 Times of San Diego: Opinion: Comprehensive Immigration Reform by Congress Is Long Overdue
- 04/27/2022 Miami Herald: Court lets Florida woman who abused H-2A employees work for Florida man who did the same
- 04/27/2022 The Hill – Opinion: Immigration reform can ease farm labor shortages
- 04/19/2022 Yahoo Entertainment!: ‘Beyond troubling’: Current, former government officials tied to human trafficking probe in Georgia
- 04/19/2022 U.S. appeals court allows six Mexican veterinarians’ suit alleging ‘forced labor and trafficking’ by a rural Idaho dairy using intentional ‘bait-and-switch’ scheme
- 04/17/2022 Sioux City Journal: LETTER: All undocumented persons deserve a pathway to citizenship
- 04/14/2022 Georgia farm labor indictments raise pressure on Biden for farmworker reforms
- 04/08/2022 Politico: She invites lawmakers to work in the fields