Harris, along with his wife, Merritt Belk Harris, and his business, processes as many as 550 applications a year for H-2A ...
Long growing seasons, access to the Colorado River, and abundant sunlight all contribute to Yuma’s agricultural advantage. However, the crops don’t grow and get harvested on their own.
A workers are at the total mercy of employers who control their livelihoods through the visas they obtain for their employees.” ...
“Farm workers, and all our neighbors in Kern County ... dozens of long-term residents of Kern County are now stranded in Mexico, far from their homes and the families, jobs, and communities that need ...
Mercedes Falk is the president of the Wisconsin-based organization Puentes/Bridges, which leads the trips. Cole Hoscheit is a ...
VERACRUZ, MEXICO — John Rosenow climbed into a pickup truck in Zongolica, a small city in rural southern Mexico, squeezing into the front with several friends and relatives from Wisconsin and ...
"We have to stay hidden," Lourdes Cardenas, a 62-year-old Mexican living in the city of Fresno ... as California alone relies on undocumented workers for 75% of its farm labor, according to the ...
FRESNO, Calif. - The United States Department of Labor Secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, is suing a San Joaquin Valley farming ...
Tepole and other Mexican workers estimated that it costs $25,000 ... and for the last two years has been milking cows on a dairy farm in Minnesota. “When they go, it’s sad,” Teresa said.
Dismantling USAID and freezing USDA support for H-2A worker programs mean farmers face a season of uncertainty.
Grijalva, the son of a Mexican immigrant who rose to the halls of Congress in a public-service career that stretched more ...