United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Immigration News
- 04/21/2020 NBC 7 San Diego: Farm Workers Not Impacted By Trump’s Executive Immigration Order: CA Farm Bureau
- 04/21/2020 The Sun: Migrant farmworkers and healthcare workers ‘will be exempt from Trump’s immigration ban’
- 04/21/2020 NBC Bay Area: Immigration Advocates Slam President’s Plan to Suspend Immigration to the U.S.
- 03/03/2020 Visalia Times Delta: Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveils ‘Dignity for Farmworkers’ plan ahead of Super Tuesday
- 03/02/2020 Los Angeles Times: Elizabeth Warren unveils farmworkers’ rights plan
- 02/26/2020 Post Register: Spud farmers demand labor reform
- 02/25/2020 Yakima Herald: Newhouse updates Yakima Valley growers on farm worker bill
- 02/21/2020 Fox Business: Work authorization for farmworkers will save farms like mine: Fourth-generation Michigan farmer
- 02/21/2020 KGET 17: Vote fails to turn prisons in McFarland into ICE detention centers
- 02/19/2020 KEYT: Central Coast immigrant ag workers hope Senate approves bipartisan bill providing path to citizenship
- 02/13/2020 Voices of Monterey Bay: Pablo goes to Washington
- 02/04/2020 Former UFW president, Monterey Co. farm worker at State of the Union as guests of Pelosi & Panetta
- 02/03/2020 Monterey Herald: Farmworker community member to be Rep. Panetta guest at State of the Union
- 02/03/2020 U.S. Rep. Panetta: Congressman Panetta to Host Farmworker at the State of the Union Address to Highlight Need for Immigration Reform and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act
- 02/03/2020 The Packer: Panetta invites farmworker to State of the Union
- 01/30/2020 Civil Eats: Long-Awaited Bill Could Stabilize the Farm Labor Market. Some Groups Have Big Concerns.
- 01/29/2020 NBC Right Now: The United Farm Workers Union host infromational meetings on the “Blue Card”
- 01/29/2020 FOX 11 and FOX 41: The United Farm Workers Union host informational meetings on the “Blue Card”
- 01/27/2020 NBC News: In 5-4 ruling, Supreme Court allows Trump plan to deny green cards to those who may need gov’t aid
- 01/21/2020 CBS2 Iowa: SPECIAL REPORT: Farm Workforce Modernization Act
- 01/16/2020 The Economist: Well documented America’s guest-worker boom
- 01/15/2020 Benito Link: Q & A: Jimmy Panetta and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act
- 01/08/2020 Washington Post: Trump Organization fires more undocumented workers — a year after its use of illegal labor was revealed
- 01/04/2020 Good Fruit Grower: H-2A poised for change
- 12/27/2019 Newsday: New laws for 2020 aim to help some immigrants, farmworkers