United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Immigration News
- 09/16/2020 UFW backs Hickenlooper, a partner for farm workers earning equal rights to overtime pay and a legal immigration process
- 09/03/2020 Business Insider: About half of the farmworkers in the US don’t have legal status. They’re risking getting COVID-19 to supply our food.
- 09/01/2020 Capital Radio News: Undocumented With COVID-19: Many Face A Long Recovery, Largely On Their Own
- 08/31/2020 News 6 Idaho: Eight nonprofit organizations come together to raise $1 million to help undocumented workers
- 08/30/2020 NBC 5: Vermonters protest ICE and Homeland Security
- 08/24/2020 San Francisco Eater: As Wildfires Rage, a Bay Area Taco Truck Is Feeding Undocumented Farmworkers
- 08/10/2020 Crosscut: WA to create $40M fund for undocumented workers hurt by pandemic
- 08/09/2020 Saporta Report: The court has spoken, now we need permanent protections for Georgia Dreamers
- 07/22/2020 JEC Releases New Report on Cost of Gaps in Paid Sick Leave During the Coronavirus Crisis
- 07/19/2020 The Spokesman-Review: As COVID-19 strains U.S. agriculture, Newhouse says immigration reform more urgent than ever
- 06/24/2020 UFW backs Biden: ‘elections matter’ in protecting Dreamers, achieving immigration reform, farm worker overtime pay & prevention of heat deaths in the fields
- 06/23/2020 The Straits Times: Trump halts entry of some foreign workers, upsetting businesses
- 06/19/2020 The New Republic: America Owes More to Its “Essential” Immigrant Workers
- 06/18/2020 CBS News: Supreme Court blocks Trump effort to wind down DACA program
- 06/18/2020 Bloomberg: Supreme Court Stops ‘Capricious’ Trump Bid to Scrap Obama’s DACA
- 06/18/2020 NBC News: Supreme Court blocks Trump from ending DACA in big win for Dreamers
- 06/18/2020 UFW: Obama-Biden created DACA, Trump tried to end it, Biden & new Senate can make it permanent
- 06/15/2020 The Washington Post: Supreme Court lets stand California’s ‘sanctuary’ law on undocumented immigrants
- 06/15/2020 CNBC: Supreme Court won’t hear Trump administration challenge to California sanctuary law
- 05/19/2020 Capital Press: Farmworker rules spark mixed reactions
- 05/15/2020 KUOW News and Information: Bunk beds and farm workers: Washington’s new housing rules
- 05/14/2020 Washington Policy Center: Common sense wins the farmworker housing rule argument
- 04/24/2020 Desert Sun: McFarland City Council approves GEO’s plan to expand immigration detention in Kern County
- 04/22/2020 The Fern: Farmworkers will be exempt from immigration restrictions
- 04/22/2020 AG Wired: Farm Workers Not Included in Immigration Order