agriculture workers
Alabama’s HB 56 Disastrous For Top Industry: Agriculture
By Raul A. Reyes, otherwords.org Ever since Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley signed the nation’s strictest immigration measure into law, he’s faced criticism from religious leaders and immigrant advocates. Now Bentley […]
WA State Dairy Workers Fighting For Union Rights
By Dylan Anderson, United Farm Workers Internet Communications Ruby Ridge is a large dairy located in Eastern Washington. An overwhelming majority of workers employed at the dairy signed union authorization […]
U.S Citizens Lack Stamina To Do Alabama Agriculture Work
Alabama’s Governor Rob Bentley says he’s insulted. The idea that Americans, Alabamans in this specific case, can’t or won’t do the work available in the state’s tomato fields is…anti-American. But the […]
Lawmakers Trying To Bring Farmworkers Back, Legally
After an outcry from American farmers over a shortage of migrant workers in their fields, Republican lawmaker Lamar Smith recently introduced a plan to overhaul the current H-2A program which forces […]
In California water politics and immigration debate collide
*These are also immigration and human rights issues: contaminated wells and the fact that agriculture workers are forced to drink from them, the contamination exacerbated by a record drought; politics that […]
Obama: Anyone still standing in way of bipartisan immigration reform should explain why
By Suzanne Gamboa, NBCLatino President Barack Obama fresh from a victory over Republicans on the government shutdown told House Republicans Thursday anyone standing in the way of bipartisan immigration reform should […]
Georgia’s Law Has Cost State At Least $10 Million
The Agricultural Commissioner of Georgia, Gary Black, released a report this week documenting the effect of HB 87 on Georgia’s agricultural economy. The report notes that the state’s agricultural industry […]
Real news – Immigration hard line could: cause $8 milk, affect your health, change voting registration
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (3.5 minute read) I read three stories today that show why we need to keep talking about immigration, even though some of us may be getting […]
The White Working-Class Wasn’t Tricked Into Racism By Trump, They’ve Chosen It, Historically
*A great explanation of how Trumpism is not new. Exclusion and blame has been imbedded in white American culture and politics for hundreds of years. This is a very good […]
The Obvious Consequence Of Trump’s Immigration Policy That No One’s Talking About
*No one is talking about the fact that 60 percent of ag workers are immigrants. If they leave food prices will increase, farmers will chose to change their crops, agriculture […]