United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Immigration News
- 01/10/2018 UFW Foundation: Trump’s promises to Dreamers ‘utterly sabotaged’ by White House aide Miller & new Goodlatte bill
- 01/09/2018 Los Angeles Times: Who’s picking your food? A record number of foreign laborers
- 01/07/2018 Don’t let Trump’s radical mass-deportation push hold immigrant youth hostage
- 01/03/2018 Capital and Main: Serfing USA: New ‘Bracero’ Bill Could Cut Agriculture Workers’ Rights and Wages
- 01/02/2018 Los Angeles Times: More workers say their bosses are threatening to have them deported
- 12/28/2017 Common Dreams: America’s Farmworkers Face Poverty, Neglect, and Now Deportation
- 12/18/2017 Sojourners: Activists March for Dreamers on Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas
- 12/12/2017 UFW Foundation joins in procession & mass marking Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in solidarity with immigrants
- 12/12/2017 Immigrant Solidarity Procession to Capitol Hill Following Celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
- 12/06/2017 Mercury News (CA): Immigration activists push Congress to act on DACA UFW & immig news
- 12/06/2017 UFW President Arturo Rodriguez among 181 arrested today during civil disobedience over Dream Act at U.S. Capitol
- 12/05/2017 Cong. Newhouse: 34 House Republicans Urge DACA Fix Before End of Year
- 12/05/2017 UFW Pres. Rodriguez & UFW Fd. members from CA at big U.S. Capitol protest demanding Congress honor promises to pass Dream Act allowing DACA recipients to stay in U.S.
- 11/15/2017 New York Times: In Reversal, Immigration Agency Will Consider Delayed DACA Requests
- 11/12/2017 Buzzfeed: At Least 20 Female Immigrants Fainted Or Vomited Because Of A Chemical Used At An Immigrant Detention Center
- 11/11/2017 Los Angeles Times: Women in immigration custody are sickened by chemical fumes
- 11/09/2017 MassLive.com: We rely on farmworkers to grow our food. They should not live in fear of deportation.
- 11/08/2017 Nationwide participatory art project uplifting Dreamers comes to Bakersfield to underscore urgency of passing a clean Dream Act
- 11/02/2017 Mother Jones: The GOP Wants To Bring in More Migrant Guest Workers—But For Much Lower Pay
- 11/01/2017 Idaho Statesman: They broke labor rules. We gave them $8M in farm subsidies and 8,000 foreign workers
- 10/24/2017 Fence Post: Goodlatte defends ag guestworker bill; Conyers, UFW oppose it
- 10/24/2017 United We Dream.org – Immigrant Youth to Speaker Paul Ryan: We Need a Clean Dream Act by Christmas
- 10/23/2017 UFW: How can Trump and GOP lawmakers insist on protecting U.S. workers by slashing U.S. worker pay and setting up guest worker scheme with no labor protections?
- 10/20/2017 The Apopka Voice (FL): Hurricane Irma’s overlooked victims: Migrant farmworkers
- 10/20/2017 San Francisco Chronicle: Undocumented immigrants face challenges after Wine Country fires