For everything in your summer eats, give credit to the farmworkers. So let’s support, not deport, our agricultural industry U.S. farmworkers already face immense challenges when it comes to being able to carry out their skilled labor in safety and with dignity, from a lack of federal protections afforded...
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Fear not, the Trump administration has it all figured it out: just replace deported farmworkers with Medicaid recipients The Trump team apparently has an answer for low-income seniors worried about losing their Medicaid coverage under the big, ugly budget bill: swap-out your Bengay and fire up the sunscreen because...
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Jun 18, 2025
While Donald Trump may be the one sitting behind the Resolute Desk, Stephen Miller is the one running the show. No surprise here: Stephen Miller is clearly running the White House. While obvious for a while now, in just the past few days, Miller outdid himself when he completely...
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Amid recent town hall pushback and nationwide May Day events where immigrants and their rights have been major rallying cries, a number of immigrants targeted under the Trump administration’s nativist obsessions have won important victories that shouldn’t get lost in the daily flood of often devastating news. Blowback from...
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Immigrant rights and the essential roles that immigrant workers play in our nation and economy were major rallying cries at many of the more than 1,000 events that took place across the country as part of May Day celebrations on Thursday. In Oregon, farmworker Araceli Cortes stressed that without...
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A stark contrast to Trump’s dysfunctional vision for America, communities are set to gather to celebrate the labor movement that immigrants are integral to Essential immigrant workers, students, families, union members and allies are set to take to the streets this upcoming May 1, International Workers Day, to celebrate...
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Over the weekend, more than 1,000 demonstrators, some carrying U.S. flags and signs reading “TOM HOMAN TOOK OUR KIDS,” took to the streets in the border czar’s small hometown of Sackets Harbor, New York – population 1,400 – to protest his vile and shocking arrest of a local mother...
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On March 31, César Chávez Day, approximately 5,000 union members, community members, and allies from all over California gathered in Delano, the birthplace of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union, to honor the late labor leader and to march in solidarity with immigrant workers. The march, “Con Estas Manos...
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America needs the work and skills of immigrants, particularly during times when essential industries like healthcare, childcare, and construction are facing critical labor shortages. In Georgia, which has been experiencing “significant” shortages in some of these areas in recent years, the GOP-led state legislature is looking to address this...
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In a frightening preview of the incoming administration’s “bloody” mass detention and deportation agenda across the nation, Border Patrol agents in unmarked vehicles have reportedly been carrying out ugly, racially profiled raids in California’s agricultural heartland, including stalking immigrants outside of stores popular among farmworkers. This early example of...
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