United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Immigration News
- 07/16/2019 West Hawaii Today: Trump administration proposes new agriculture immigration rules
- 07/16/2019 New Food Economy: Labor Department proposal may lower minimum wage for seasonal farm workers
- 07/15/2019 Trump’s proposed changes in agricultural guest worker program set ‘a new low of hypocrisy, racism and self-dealing’
- 07/14/2019 The Guardian: Prospect of immigration raids across US spark anxiety, anger and protests
- 07/14/2019 Mother Jones: ICE Started Its Immigration Raids—But Its Agents Got Turned Away
- 07/14/2019 NY Times: ICE Launches Raids Targeting Migrant Families
- 07/12/2019 23 ABC News: Lights for Liberty rally held in Bakersfield call out ‘inhumane’ detention camps
- 07/12/2019 UFW, UFW Foundation join nationwide ‘Lights for Liberty’ vigils in Fresno, Manteca, Santa Rosa, Watsonville, Bakersfield & Monterey
- 07/06/2019 Winchester Star: Struggle to attain legal status continues for local farm worker
- 07/05/2019 The American Prospect: Since Washington, D.C., Won’t Oversee Its Guest Worker Programs, Washington State Will
- 07/04/2019 CNN: Pediatricians share migrant children’s disturbing drawings of their time in US custody
- 07/03/2019 San Francisco Chronicle: Trump administration ending in-person interpreters at immigrants’ first hearings
- 07/02/2019 NPR (KQED): Trump Administration Hits Some Immigrants In U.S. Illegally With Fines Up To $500,000
- 07/02/2019 NBC News: ‘Help’: Photos show hundreds of migrants squashed into cells, appealing for assistance
- 06/29/2019 WCAX(CBS): Arrest of three immigrant farm workers sparks protest
- 06/28/2019 Desert Sun: Many eastern Coachella Valley natives are returning. Their mission? To advocate for their community
- 06/28/2019 ABC 30: Valley farmers, politicians talk immigration, tariffs with U.S. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue
- 06/28/2019 KJZZ: Plaintiff In Census Citizenship Case ‘Not Ready To Sit Back Yet’
- 06/28/2019 ABC 30: Valley farmers, politicians talk immigration, tariffs with U.S. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue
- 06/27/2019 Talk Poverty: States Are Going Around Trump to Get More Workers Overtime Pay
- 06/26/2019 Washington Post: The father and daughter who drowned at the border were desperate for a better life, family says
- 06/25/2019 The Hill: Wayfair employees plan walkout over sales to migrant detention centers
- 06/23/2019 SF Gate: Trump postpones nationwide immigration enforcement sweep
- 06/22/2019 Support UFW’s new farm worker immigration bill just introduced in Congress
- 06/21/2019 CNN: ICE set to begin immigration raids in 10 cities on Sunday