United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Immigration News
- 08/01/2013 New York Times: Advocates for Immigrants Up the Ante in a Capitol Sit-In That Brings Arrests
- 08/01/2013 Telemundo 47: Melón y sandía por reforma migratoria
- 08/01/2013 Operation Cantaloupe
- 08/01/2013 Fox News Latino: Why I Got Arrested Today
- 08/01/2013 Plain Dealer (OH): Immigration reform would boost Ohio economy, White House says
- 08/01/2013 Huffington Post: Immigration Activists Arrested In Pro-Reform Protest Near Capitol
- 08/01/2013 Washington Post: Immigration advocates deliver cantaloupes to House GOP lawmakers
- 08/01/2013 Over 30 Advocates, including UFW leader, Arrested on Capitol Hill For Protesting Unjust Immigration Policies, House GOP Inaction on Path to Citizenship
- 08/01/2013 Roll Call: Cantaloupes Delivered to GOP Backers of King Amendment
- 08/01/2013 MSNBC: DREAMers deliver cantaloupes to House members who voted with Steve King
- 08/01/2013 NBC Latino: Immigration activists deliver cantaloupes picked by immigrants to House members, Steve King (includes video)
- 08/01/2013 Washington Post: Immigration advocates deliver cantaloupes to House GOP lawmakers
- 07/31/2013 AgWeb: Golden State Sorrows
- 07/30/2013 Omaha.com: Ag chief Vilsack: Farm country would get a boost from immigration overhaul
- 07/29/2013 San Francisco Chronicle: White House: California could lose farms without immigration reform
- 07/29/2013 USA Today: Farmers, laborers caught in middle of migrant debate
- 07/29/2013 NBC Latino: DREAMer who delivered cantaloupes to King: Shame he is “criminalizing an entire community” (includes video)
- 07/28/2013 Bakersfield Californian: A tale of two congressmen
- 07/26/2013 Presente.org, CREDO, DRM Action Coalition, United Farm Workers Call on Boehner to Remove Steve King from Congressional Committee
- 07/25/2013 Huffington Post: Dreamers Deliver Cantaloupes To Steve King To Protest His Comments Against Immigrants
- 07/22/2013 Washington Post: Rep. Luis Gutiérrez explains how immigration reform gets out of the House
- 07/21/2013 Today, July 20, at 4 p.m. in Bakersfield UFW president joins congressmen Gutierrez and Valadao calling on House to act on immigration reform
- 07/11/2013 Rally at Rep. McCarthy’s office in effort to pressure the Majority Whip to support immigration reform now
- 07/09/2013 KBAK-TV (CBS) (CA): Cal-OSHA investigating farmworker death
- 07/08/2013 Bakersfield Californian: UFW calls for ‘aggressive’ heat-illness enforcement